Sequential analysis is discussed as an educational tool and experiments in educational uses of this method are described. (Text is in German.) (Author/AM)

This report comprises a collection of summaries of exploratory efforts by college professors at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation member institutions to develop new and better ways of teaching. Usually these are local experiments aimed at improving the conditions for learning in a specific subject-matter area, but many of the procedures…

The intention of this article is to suggest useful and specific purposes for a social science curriculum; a content appropriate to these purposes which is educationally efficient; and an instructional strategy suited to both the specified content and purposes. (Author)

Gives a history of traditional and audiolingual methods of language teaching. Reports on one Swedish and two U.S. long-term experiments. The two methods are found to be of about equal value. The most recent publications reveal a tendency to synthesize the two. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The aim of the mentioned experiment is to aid students in developing tactics for distinguishing between signals originating from fluorescence and light scattering. Also, the experiment provides students with a deeper understanding of the physicochemical bases of each phenomenon and shows that the techniques are actually related.

Author reported on the integration of disabled children into a primary school. (Editor/RK)

Two separate subject matter areas were selected for investigation which were felt to represent two distinct types of learning situations. One was a kind of logico-mathematical procedure; the other was a visual form discrimination task. Two separate courses were developed for each subject matter area. One reflected an inductive instructional…

Author relates how his school district taught elementary students to operate media equipment. (Author)

The pedagogue is caught between the qualitative and quantitative or regularized aspects of his work, a situation not automatically conducive to scientific study. The article refreshes the instructor on the elementary principles of experimentation: observation, systematization, elaboration of hypothesis, and startegies of comparison. (Text is in…

Author focused on the basic principles that should inform educational theory and methodology. (Author/RK)

HIGH SCHOOL TYPISTS AT FOUR STAGES OF TRAINING PARTICIPATED IN AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIVE EFFECTS OF EXTERNALLY-PACED VERSUS SELF-PACED PRACTICE ON SPEED AND ACCURACY IN ORDINARY TYPEWRITER COPY WORK. TWO TEACHERS IN EACH OF FOUR SCHOOLS TAUGHT BOTH AN EXTERNALLY-PACED AND A SELF-PACED CLASS TO A TOTAL OF 120 STUDENTS PER TREATMENT IN 16…