The Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) peer instruction model is presented, providing information for teachers on how to design and implement such a teaching system within Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs. The model presented requires that students meet specific performance criteria before they teach others, and that formats or…

This study examined the effects of two programs which differed in the methods they employed to develop reading readiness. The two methods represented were a language experience approach and a phonics approach. The subjects were children from kindergarten classes in two elementary schools in Flint, Michigan. All subjects were randomly assigned…

This report is the third technical report submitted to the U. S. Office of Education in connection with a study the overall purpose of which was to choose up to eight successful education programs serving underachieving, poor children and to design "Project Information Packages" for each of them. These Project Information Packages were to serve as…

This report is a cross-evaluation of two significant efforts to improve teacher education in the United States. The USOE models project and the NCATE accreditation standards both recognize that teacher education programs can best be examined as a totality, and both relate program and evaluation of graduates to stated goals. (See also ED037422 for…

The major focuses of this reading program survey were staff preparation, instructional techniques, educational materials, and pupil achievement. Data were obtained from 47 teachers (14 men and 33 women) who represented reading instruction in grades 1 through 8. The following items were analyzed in detail: personnel description (age, sex, and…

Rather than presenting a cookbook recipe for how to evaluate computer assisted instruction (CAI), a number of queries relevant to the evaluation of CAI are presented and explicated. (1) Is it possible that CAI offers opportunities to reach cognitive instructional objectives to which users of conventional methods do not aspire? (2) Is it reasonable…

This report contains information on the federally assisted Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs in 64 school districts in California and the qualitative evaluation of ten representative ones. About 7,500 adults were enrolled in these ten during 1967-68. Training led to: increased participation in voting, employment; promotion, removal from…

Aided by the Georgia Community Continuing Education Service (State Agency, Title 1, Higher Educational Act of 1965), the University of Georgia Council on Gerontology induced Georgia colleges and universities to cooperate to help practitioners and community leaders learn about the sociological, physiological, psychological, economic, and community…

This document is an interim evaluation report of language development curriculums in full year Head Start programs operating in the five state area the Research and Evaluation Center serves. One experimental study in language development carried on in cooperation with the Texas and Tulane centers is reported in depth. The study was implemented in…

This document is a progress report on effecting educational change in a kindergarten program and its interim research findings. A general description of the program and its background are given, followed by an explanation of the diagnostic-prescriptive approach taken in the program. This explanation includes descriptions of the rationale for…

A study of the effectiveness of executive development programs for marketing and sales executives tested three hypotheses: (1) participation in such programs results in identifiable benefits as perceived by the participants; (2) academically oriented executive development programs have significant advantages over company oriented programs as…

The present project provided for the development of a detailed quantitative curriculum appropriate for use in Head Start classes, trial of the developed materials with preschool children in Hawaii, and preliminary assessment of the curriculum in comparison with a more spontaneous, informal quantitative classroom experience. Directions for tasks…

This textbook, which focuses on teaching health at the middle and secondary school levels, is a source book for curriculum development designed to help teachers organize major health topics. Chapter one discusses new directions in health education, including ecology, population control, and the national economy. Chapter two discusses the secondary…

The guidelines for evaluation of junior college journalism courses have been undertaken by the Junior College Journalism Association in cooperation with the Association for Education in Journalism and with the assistance of many interested associations, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The major objectives of this program are…

The 30th annual American Industrial Arts Association (AIAA) Convention was held in Minneapolis in 1968. Topics for the AIAA general session addresses were: (1) "A Fresh Look at Industrial Arts," (2) "New Curricular Concepts," (3) "Making Education Relevant," (4) "Industrial Arts in an Educational System for the Seventies," (5) "New Concepts in…