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Morris, June E. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1974
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Blindness, Exceptional Child Education, Material Development
Dauzat, Sam V.; Dauzat, Jo Ann – Lifelong Learning, 1987
The authors discuss changes that will appear in the 1988 edition of the General Educational Development (GED) test. Changes include (1) a focus on comprehensive, integrated skills; (2) a need for highly developed thinking skills; (3) use of a computer technology theme; (4) writing assessments; and (5) changes in content areas. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, High School Equivalency Programs, Item Analysis
BORMUTH, JOHN R. – 1964
A STUDY WHICH DEALT WITH ONE ASPECT OF THE QUESTION OF WHY ONE LANGUAGE IS EASY TO COMPREHEND WHILE ANOTHER IS NOT WAS REPORTED. SPECIFICALLY, IT STUDIED THE PROBLEM OF INCREASING THE PRECISION OF READABILITY PREDICTION. THE OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO DETERMINE THE FORMS AND STRENGTHS OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN COMPREHENSION DIFFICULTY OF LANGUAGE…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Instructional Materials, Linguistics, Material Development
Brookdale Community Coll., Lincroft, NJ. – 1984
The goal of a project was to reconcile current testing services and practice as related to vocational assessment with the requirements for testing itemized by Federal regulations implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. A review of research related to the problem of testing and conducting a vocational assessment of handicapped…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Career Education, College Students, Educational Research
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The demands of education reform in many states are constraining the time teachers have to prepare and teach new activities. Therefore, it would behoove environmental educators developing supplemental curricular materials to use their concepts to augment state reform goals. This study suggests that a biodiversity curriculum guide, using the…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Environmental Education, Educational Change, Material Development
Harding, Ann; And Others – 1980
This book covers various aspects of the "graded objectives movement" in England and is intended to help teachers understand the ideas behind the movement and to form working groups to implement it. Graded objectives are understood as those objectives which represent steps in a continuum that could be attempted by all learners who would…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Committees, Curriculum Design
Download full textWales Univ., Aberystwyth. Univ. Coll. of Wales. – 1953
The Faculty of Education of the University College of Wales is responsible for the initiation and coordination of research on the bilingual situation of Wales. This pamphlet outlines a program of work for this research. It is intended to show the individual researcher the overall aims and problems of the program and to suggest specific research…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Hall, Ken; Clayton, John – 1991
This resource guide is designed for teachers and others interested in fostering Spanish instruction in the schools of the United Kingdom, especially at the secondary level. The first of nine chapters looks at the status of and rationale for Spanish language instruction in the United Kingdom. The second chapter addresses topics in instructional…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Gething, Thomas W. – 1973
This paper is a preliminary attempt to identify important gaps in instructional materials for Southeast Asian languages. The need for instructional materials is detailed for: Burmese, Cambodian, Indonesian/Malay, Lao, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese. Attention is drawn particularly to the need for integrated audiovisual materials, materials on…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Austro Asiatic Languages, Bilingual Education, Burmese
Macrae, Joan; Rix, David – 1991
This resource guide for teachers of Russian in the United Kingdom contains 11 chapters designed to encourage and support secondary school Russian language instruction. The first chapter discusses the status and potential of Russian instruction in the United Kingdom. The second chapter addresses topics in instructional management, including…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Jackson, Jenny – 1990
This resource guide, intended for current prospective teachers of Italian, is designed as a source of information and inspiration for Italian instructors at all educational levels. The first of the guide's 11 chapters provides a brief general introduction to this book. Chapter 2 looks at the status of and rationale for Italian language instruction…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Reid, Euan, Ed. – 1984
This report of a British government task force investigates the educational and policy needs for public school native language instruction for ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom. An introductory section examines the educational policy context, rationale for minority language instruction, needs assessment and recommendations for action,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingualism, Case Studies, Educational Assessment
Martin, Wanda; And Others – 1981
Designed to help vocational teachers aid students in reading vocational education class materials, this handbook contains six sections of background information and suggested activities geared to various aspects of reading and a section of ideas for use in improving the reading skills of vocational students. While most of the examples in the…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Informal Reading Inventories, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
Yorio, Carlos A., Ed.; And Others – 1979
Selections include Strevens' discussion of teaching for different circumstances, Morley's discussion of new developments in teaching materials, Swain's overview of research in bilingual education, Shuy's, Oller's, Bernal's, and Rosier's respective discussions of test bias, and Rivers', Hines', Scovel's, and Taylor's explorations of the Silent Way,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Cloze Procedure
