This number of a journal devoted to ideas for teachers of English as a second language (ESL) contains the following articles: (1) "Teaching Grammar as Part of Meaningful Communication" by Raphael Gefen, (2) "Does the School Have a Role to Play in Teaching Environmental Awareness?" by Ora Herzog, (3) "Identifying with…

THE STUDY ATTEMPTED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NEED STRUCTURE OF THE TEACHER WITH RESPECT TO ACHIEVEMENT, AFFILIATION, RECOGNITION AND CONTROL, AND THE TEACHER'S PERFORMANCE IN THE CLASSROOM. THERE WERE THREE SEPARATE PHASES TO THIS RESEARCH--(1) INSTRUMENTS WERE DESIGNED TO MEASURE THE NEEDS OF TEACHERS IN THE CATEGORIES MENTIONED…

THE QUALITY OF ART PRODUCTS OF STUDENTS WERE MEASURED TO COMPARE (1) THE EFFECT OF AN ART PROGRAM PRESCRIBED TO A TEACHER VERSUS AN ART PROGRAM SELF-DEVELOPED BY A TEACHER AND (2) THE EFFECT OF TWO METHODS OF TEACHING, ONE SPONTANEOUS AND THE OTHER DIVERGENT. SPONTANEOUS ART STRATEGY WAS DEFINED AS BEGINNING WITH A BIG ORGANIC STATEMENT DEVOID OF…

An analysis of the results obtained with "Basic French--A Programmed Course" taught to University of Kentucky freshmen in 1968-69 is presented. These results, which are compared with those of two traditional audiolingual courses, have led to the following conclusions: (1) results of the Programmed Course are significantly superior to…

Three instructional treatments employed in teaching elementary school arithmetic are investigated and described--Individually Prescribed Instruction, Programed Learning Instruction, and Standard Classroom Instruction. The author provides descriptive information concerning the differences among the three curricular treatments and statistical data…

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects of training preservice elementary school teachers to use Bloom's Mastery Teaching Strategy. Data were collected and analyzed to determine the effectiveness of the training in three areas: a) affective change among the trainees with regard to tests, b) the ability of the teachers to…

The purpose of this book is to examine various strategies for increasing creative productivity, particularly in industry and in the schools. In addition to the emphasis on training imagination, the articles included in this book analyze such critical variables as the physical and psychological atmosphere which encourages or stifles imagination,…

In a course, Developing Creativity in Teaching, graduate students, many of them experienced teachers of varied subjects in junior and senior high school, practiced some methods which facilitate creative learning. (Author)

Contends that measurement-driven instruction (MDI) has numerous interrelated and pernicious effects on curriculum, instruction, and learning. Shows that MDI fragments, narrows, deflects, and trivializes the learning experience and furthers the teacher-dominated classroom. Successful response to a set of questions does not equal understanding.…

Counters Gerald Bracey's rejection of measurement-driven instruction (MDI), especially the latter's "cursed trinity": fragmentation, deflection, and trivialization. Points to eminently successful modes of MDI and urges educators to emulate them. (MLH)

Offers the final word on the measurement-driven instruction (MDI) debate in this "Kappan" issue. Claims that Popham's article is internally inconsistent and provides no examples of well-constructed, instructionally illuminative tests. Also lacking are teacher testimonials and evidence that MDI programs are cost-effective or oriented…

Because of the great promise of distance learning for delivering cost-effective instruction, there is great interest in determining whether or not it actually is effective, and--more interesting--determining what variables of design and implementation make it more or less effective. Unfortunately, much of the research has been based on simple…

Shorthand laboratory appeared to have no significant influence on terminal achievement in intermediate shorthand. (JS)