Summarized is a pilot study of 15 Oregon school district's work study programs for educable retarded young adults. Discussed are the study's two main objectives: the development of instruments to identify the characteristics and compile profiles of work study students, and the selection of variables and instruments to measure classroom procedures.…

This guide is a documentation of the curricular components which evolved during a two-year pilot course in one of the senior high schools of Prince George's County, Maryland. It is a one-semester, nonsequential course intended for students desiring an introduction to the language without in-depth exposure. The objectives of such a course involve…

Prepared by an instructor and curriculum development specialists of the Minnesota Work Opportunity Center, this document describes an art course which affords the dropout and/or hard-core unemployed youth an opportunity to discover, explore, design, and evaluate. The approach focuses on the individual and what he wants to accomplish. During the…

Prepared by an instructor and curriculum specialists, this course of study was designed to meet the individual needs of the dropout and/or hard-core unemployed youth by providing them skill training, related information, and supportive services knowledge in machine tool operation. The achievement level of each student is determined at entry, and…

Through analysis of data collected during the third year of the San Antonio Language Project (1966-67), this study attempts to evaluate the effect of three treatments on reading achievement: intensive oral-aural English instruction (OAE); intensive oral-aural Spanish instruction (OAS); and non-oral-aural instruction (NOA). It involved two sample…

A brief review of language instruction in primary, secondary, and preparatory schools; colleges of education; and universities is developed in this article. General commentary concerning the outgrowth of the "language revolution", recognition of the importance of modern language study, extended teaching programs, new teaching…

Experiments in language teaching have indicated that, especially in the case of teaching English as a foreign language, no pronunciation of English sounds natural unless the intonation (prosodic features) is fairly acceptable. Even with satisfactory consonants and vowels, a phrase with incorrect melody still sounds foreign. On the other hand, when…

A pilot project of the Curative Workshop of Milwaukee which provided domestic work training for four trainable mentally retarded girls is described. School psychologists' reports of the four adolescent trainees are included, and recommendations for future programing are noted. Evaluation data reflect the girls' performance, amount of supervision,…

The major article in this IRCD Bulletin is devoted to preschool educational programs. Following some background discussion about the new concentration in preschool education on cognitive development and the rationale for preschool learning, various techniques and procedures are reported. An extensive bibliography cites works about preschool…

The purpose of this guide is to encourage the development of humanities programs at the high school level so that students, through acquaintance with the thoughts, creations, and actions of past and present men in every area of knowledge, will think about the values of freedom and responsibility in relation to themselves. Not intended as a course…

Conducted in 1969, this intensive 13 week project (Kennedy-Javits Program) was designed to demonstrate effective methods of adult basic education for 50 hard core umemployed males working in the Los Angeles County Highway Department. Instructional emphasis was on the acquisition and/or development of basic skills in computation and communication.…

An experimental program of directed social change was undertaken in nine Mississippi counties by the Cooperative Extension Service with special funds provided by the Federal Extension Service. The purpose of the program was to test the hypothesis that the creation and use of systemic links in extension work would result in desired changes in…

The development of a modularized program for secondary educational psychology students at the University of Colorado is reviewed. The beginning stages and prototype produced are described, but emphasis is on the revision of the first system. Changes in the course, covering both educational and adolescent psychology, include expansion of the number…

A survey of computer use was conducted in 1974 in a small, nonrandom sample of Massachusetts colleges and universities. Allowing for inflation, but adjusting for the increase in computer power per dollar, it is clear that significantly more computer power is being devoted to instruction--both "with" and "about" the computer.…

The Resource Recovery Education Program contains a variety of ideas, approaches, and learning aids for teaching about solid waste disposal at the secondary level. The program kit consists of a teacher's guide which provides an overview; separate teacher's guides for social studies, science, and industrial arts; a student booklet of readings; and a…