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Download full textBair, James H. – 1974
The Augmented Human Intellect (AHI) system is a computer-based system designed to store, structure, and retrieve textual information in a way congruent with the characteristics of the individual. It provides for the hierarchical ordering of information and for the manipulation of text through a system of cross-referencing, modification, and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Computers, Experimental Programs, Human Factors Engineering
Zdep, S. M. – 1970
A one-year experimental program that transported a total of 38 "volunteer" disadvantaged city children to schools in a nearby suburban community was evaluated in grades 1 and 2. Twenty-six of the 38 children were in a total of 12 different classes at these two grade levels. At the conclusion of the program, transported first graders…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Bus Transportation, Community Attitudes
Tuckman, Bruce W. – 1974
The differentiated outcome hypothesis posits that the maximum effects of an educational program are realized along those dimensions emphasized in the program or in those central to the persons involved. The idea that educational programs employing unconventional means should be examined on outcomes that are consistent with those means is derived…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Behavior Change, Evaluation Criteria
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
Stern, Hans Georg – 1970
This third of four volumes of the final report on the Educational Laboratory Theatre (ELT) Project provides an on-the-scene account of the Project's history at its Los Angeles site, from the point of view of the school-system people involved. Useful to planners of future cultural programs in its presentation of the practical difficulties of…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cultural Activities, Dramatics, Experimental Programs
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
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
