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Download full textPint, Robert F. – 1973
A survey of staff and student attitudes toward selected innovative approaches to learning that had been in operation for four years was conducted. The population surveyed comprised the entire Bettendorf, Iowa, Middle School staff and student body. Questionnaires were developed to elicit pertinent staff and student opinions toward (a) space…
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, Instructional Innovation, Learning, Program Evaluation
POPHAM, W. JAMES – 1960
AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT A GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSE COULD BE TAUGHT EFFECTIVELY WITH A SERIES OF TAPE RECORDED LECTURES. A RESEARCH METHODS CLASS WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO SECTIONS WHICH WERE EQUATED ON THE BASIS OF SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE AS WELL AS SCORES ON TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF ACHIEVEMENT PRETESTS. THE CONTROL SECTION WAS…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Comparative Analysis, Experimental Programs, Graduate Study
Humphrey, David A. – 1974
Higher education today is the target of growing pressure for improved management procedures. As one response to these societal pressures, higher education has developed numerous nontraditional patterns of instruction. The purpose of this paper is to discusss educational and instructional development, that is, change within higher education, and…
Descriptors: Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Administration, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedPlant, Helmut; Stehr, Christian – Unterrichtspraxis, 1973
Describes implementation and results of a filmed German language course at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. The series, Guten Tag: A German Language Course for Television,'' is available from the International Film Bureau, Inc., Chicago, Illinois. (RS)
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, Foreign Language Films, German, Instructional Innovation
Enger, John; And Others – 1976
Reported here is the development and evaluation of an extensive series of video-cassette presentations developed for introductory chemical education. In measures of course achievement, students instructed by the video-cassette-discussion format received higher average scores than those taught by live lecture methods. A survey showed that the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Curriculum, Educational Media, Experimental Programs
COOPER, RUSSELL M.; FRENCH, SIDNEY J. – 1967
TEACHERS IN BIOLOGY, ENGLISH, HUMANITIES, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AT THE UNIVERSITY AND AT VARIOUS JUNIOR COLLEGES IN FLORIDA TESTED THE VALUE OF ORIENTING COURSES TOWARD STUDENT PARTICIPATION AND AWAY FROM LECTURES. EACH INSTRUCTOR CONDUCTED ONE CONVENTIONAL COURSE AND ONE EXPERIMENTAL, LESS STRUCTURED COURSE COVERING…
Descriptors: Discussion, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Experiments, Experimental Groups
Wallen, Robert N.; MacMillan, Thomas F. – 1976
A team of students, faculty members, division chairpersons and administrators at Mendocino College developed a set of knowledge, skill and attitude goals for an interdisciplinary program around the theme of the "World Food Crisis." Once the broad goals had been set, a team representing the social sciences, natural sciences, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development
Squizzero, William E. – 1976
Because of course difficulty and dryness, students of elementary accounting often have poor grades and manifest low interest and a 40-50% dropout rate. In answer to these problems, an experimental multimedia approach to teaching the accounting cycle was tested with 58 students against a control group of 62. Both groups consisted of male and female…
Descriptors: Accounting, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Conventional Instruction
Flanagan, Dan – 1976
Little research has been done on attitudes toward and levels of support for nontraditional academic programs in higher education. A research project was conducted involving students, faculty, professional staff, and administrators at three institutions of varying size, location, and academic program: The University of Massachusetts at Amherst;…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Educational Innovation
Burne, Kevin – 1973
Phases two and three of an evaluation of an innovative approach to English Composition instruction at Long Beach City College are reported. In the innovative approach, each class was divided into two groups of 15 students each, which met twice each week to discuss topics for writing, to read and revise first drafts of papers, and to discuss basic…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
DeBruler, Ralph M. – 1966
An instructional program for children retarded in reading but average or above in intelligence enrolled 57 seventh grade students. The program consisted of instruction in language arts and social studies which utilized audiovisual materials, class discussions, resource people, pictorial textbooks, oral quizzes, self-expression writing, and high…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Community Programs, Exceptional Child Research, Experimental Programs
Boyles, Marion P.; And Others – 1969
The effectiveness of the instructional team approach as opposed to the self-contained classroom approach was investigated by the Atlanta Public School system from 1966-1969 (under a funding by Title I, Public Law 89-10). The achievement levels of first grade and seventh grade pupils were evaluated, using both techniques at each level. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Education
Brown, Charles A., Comp. – 1974
Twenty-two exemplary and innovative Projects to Advance Creativity in Education (PACE), funded by Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965, which serve the role of demonstrating the feasibility of innovations in a local context, are summarized in this evaluation booklet of Title III ESEA Idaho Projects for the 1970 through 1973 school…
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Bird, Thomas E., Ed. – 1968
Included in this volume are the reports on foreign language research and development produced by the three working committees of the fifteenth annual Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Discussions of (1) the Indiana and Washington State programs, (2) "Artes Latinae," a complete project of programed learning…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Conference Reports, Experimental Programs
FOX, DAVID J. – 1967
THIS SHORT-TERM EVALUATION OF THE MORE EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS (MES) PROGRAM IN 21 NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ASSESSED THE MES INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM AND ITS IMPACT ON THE STUDENTS. DATA WERE GATHERED FROM (1) OBSERVATIONAL VISITS TO CLASSROOMS BY TWO-MEMBER TEAMS OF EDUCATORS AND SOCIAL SCIENTISTS, (2) STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS WITH…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Organization, Arithmetic, Attitudes
