THE GOALS, RESEARCH TASKS, AND FUNCTIONAL OPERATION OF A RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION (R AND I) UNIT WERE DESCRIBED. R AND I UNITS WERE ORGANIZED TO PROVIDE THE MEANS TO CONDUCT CLASSROOM RESEARCH AND TO DEVELOP MORE EFFICIENT LEARNING PROCESSES THROUGH THE COOPERATION OF LOCAL SCHOOLS, STATE PERSONNEL, AND UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEMBERS. THE ACTIVITIES…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM OF CLASSROOM SIMULATION FOR THE PRESERVICE EDUCATION OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS AND TO CONDUCT A TEST OF THAT PROGRAM. A SINGLE SIXTH-GRADE CLASSROOM WAS SIMULATED THROUGH THE USE OF FILMS AND PRINTED MATERIALS. A TEST GROUP OF 40 STUDENTS, DIVIDED INTO 4 GROUPS, WAS PRESENTED WITH 60…

A study was undertaken in order to provide current data and comprehensive information about Chinese language instruction in United States higher education. This report is based on the responses to a survey in 1979. In addition to the discussion of the survey responses, an examination of changes that have taken place since a previous report in 1969…

Two of the most widely used reading programs in the country, the 1976 Houghton Mifflin Reading Series and the 1976 Ginn Reading 720 Series, are analyzed in this volume to determine the methods they suggest for teaching reading comprehension. Eight sections contain the following information: (1) a short description of some of the surface features…

A study was conducted to test a method of instruction designed to incorporate communication and reasoning skills into the regular content of liberal arts courses. Eleven instructors teaching in nine liberal arts disciplines were trained in the areas of reading and study skills, writing, speaking and listening, and reasoning. Instructors were…

To be successful, inservice programs need to utilize cooperative learning activities and create collaborative support groups to assist implementation efforts after the inservice program has ended. Placing teachers in small, cooperative groups to discuss the material being presented in the inservice program provide the structure and mechanisms for…

This manual presents the master lists of 206 job titles of 167 different Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) code numbers which were held by physically handicapped graduates/completers of vocational programs as determined by a business and industry survey and graduate followup. (The project itself is reported in CE 026 163; survey and followup…

This paper describes a ten-week, part-time inservice training course for teachers of severely and profoundly retarded children and an evaluation of the course's effects on teachers' classroom behavior. Five weeks focused on teaching methods, primarily behavior modification and social learning approaches; and five weeks focused on the curriculum…

The first of nine volumes in the SER-LARS (Special Education Resources Location Analysis and Retrieval System) Series presents an overview of the system's diagnostic-prescriptive instructional data bank. Information for the user is provided on resources needed, information generated, and procedures for the model's eight levels: initial referral…

This publication is a curriculum guide designed to assist local educators in planning and implementing instructional programs for Office of Education Code 04.01, Advertising Services, a subcluster within the marketing and distribution cluster. The curricular guide is divided into two major sections. The first section contains information for the…

The question of whether educational technology can be of assistance to the public school teacher who is in the position of having to teach the rudiments of a second language that he himself has not mastered is addresed in this paper. A series of teaching and learning units were constructed and experimented with for two years in teaching English as…

The Research and Development Interpretation Service (RDIS) has been collecting reading research to identify items that will be most useful to the regional exchanges and their clients. This bibliography, the result of that work, lists the items in alphabetical order by author. The items are also indexed according to major topic areas, including…

THE PEACE CORPS (ETV) PROJECT IN COLOMBIA ENCOUNTERED PROBLEMS IN TV PRODUCTION, INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE, UTILIZATION OF TELEVISED INSTRUCTION, AND LEADERSHIP. BY JUNE OF THE FIRST SEMESTER TELEVISED ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION INCLUDED ABOUT 390 SCHOOLS, 2,000 TEACHERS, AND 60,000 PUIPLS. EXTENSIVE RESEARCH INTENDED TO PROVIDE A BASIS FOR CORRECTIVE…

HENSLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, CONSISTING OF 72 STUDENTS AND 3 TEACHERS, HAS INCORPORATED 12 EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION PROGRAMS AS A REGULAR PART OF THE CURRICULUM IN THE FIRST 6 GRADES. GRADES 1 AND 2 VIEWED PROGRAMS IN SCIENCE, SPEECH, ART, MUSIC, AND STORY TIME. GRADES 3 AND 4 VIEWED SERIES IN MUSIC, SCIENCE, ART, AND SPEECH, WHILE GRADES 5 AND 6 WERE…

This document is a publication of the major presentations from CAREL's (Central Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory) first writing conference held during July and August 1967. The focus of CAREL is the improvement of educational opportunities for children in the early years of schooling. It has begun the development of curriculum plans in…