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Hechinger, Fred M. – Today's Education, 1976
Past experimental projects in education such as television teaching, teaching machines, and open classrooms have for the most part been abandoned, but they gave recognition to the virtue of more informal teaching and attention to children's individual needs. (JD)
Descriptors: Closed Circuit Television, Educational Experiments, Educational Media, Experimental Programs
Hausser, Doris; And Others – 1976
A study was conducted to investigate the application of the PLATO IV system to training interpersonal skills. Suitable content areas were chosen, and a mechanism to integrate various skill areas was designed. Training materials for this integration of skills were developed and coded into the PLATO IV system. A sample of experimental and control…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Experimental Programs, Feedback, Instructional Materials
Desch, S. H.; Stolurow, L. M. – 1969
Experimental Programed Instruction of the anatomy of the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve is being conducted by the Harvard Computer-Aided Instruction Laboratory in cooperation with Tufts University Dental School. Two nearly identical programs are presented, one (PF) using representational diagrams and the other (PD) a schematic diagram…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Achievement Tests, Anatomy, Attitude Measures
McKee, John M.; And Others – 1971
Two different groups of subjects--incarcerated adult offenders and freshman nursing students--participated in an academic experiment which employed an individually prescribed learning system. The system featured programmed instructional materials and contingency management procedures to obtain stable cumulative records of learning performance.…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Behavioral Science Research, College Freshmen, Correlation
Bockman, John F. – 1970
A two-part experiment seeks to determine the practicability of independent foreign language study using programed materials as a mode of instruction for a limited number of secondary school students of high ability. Discussion of additional objectives, methods, materials, and student attitudes reveals that the process of programed learning…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Course Descriptions, Educational Objectives, Experimental Programs
SEXTON, PATRICIA CAYO
IN THIS STUDY OF EXPERIMENTAL AND DEMONSTRATION BASIS EDUCATION PROJECTS FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTHS, VISITS WERE MADE TO THE JOB UPGRADING PROJECT (NORTH RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA), THE MAYOR'S YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROJECT (DETROIT), THE LANE COUNTY YOUTH PROJECT (EUGENE, OREGON), JOB OPPORTUNITIES, THROUGH BETTER SKILLS (CHICAGO), THE YMCA…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audiovisual Aids, Blacks, Class Size
Bockman, John F. – 1970
Description of the second phase of the project, which has as basic objectives the determination of the feasibility of independent foreign language study in public schools and also an examination of the advantages, disadvantages, potentialities, and limitations of this mode of self-instruction, surveys the procedures 30 eighth-grade students…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Objectives, Experimental Programs, Grade 8