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Download full textWright, Chester; And Others
A guide for agencies in setting up new employee development programs or a tool for assessing existing ones, the paper presents an eight-step process for organizational training. Step 1 commences with the identification and ranking of learning needs, or conducting a needs assessment. Step 2, selection of learning objectives, includes a job analysis…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Guides, Learning Processes, Needs Assessment
Clow, John, Ed.; Woolschlager, Ruth B., Ed. – 1975
The learning disabilities monograph contains five brief articles dealing with various aspects of learning disabilities as they related to business education. "Learning Disabilities: A Challenge for the Vocational Business Educator" (Dorothy Munger) concerns screening students with learning disabilities into rather than out of business education…
Descriptors: Business Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems
Gage, N. L. – 1976
This report begins by giving reasons for conducting research on teaching and examining the different kinds of variables that are studied in research on teaching. The types of relationships between these variables that can be studied are then discussed. Because these types of relationships constitute models for research on teaching, the paper then…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Correlation, Educational Research
Smith, Philip D., Jr.
An overview of language instruction on the national level and specifically in Nevada during the late 1950's and the early 1960's reveals five major factors which contributed to the changing trends. The author discusses: (1) the new understanding of the nature of language, (2) changing philosophies and objectives, (3) modern foreign language and…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Educational Objectives, Educational Trends, Instructional Program Divisions
McKenzie, Gary R. – 1971
This study examined effects of inference quizzes on inferential thinking. A total of 213 grade 8 history students were randomly assigned to treatments within classrooms. Group R took eight weekly quizzes requiring recall of stated facts. Group I took 8 quizzes requiring students to draw inferences about interest groups. Teachers had no knowledge…
Descriptors: American History, Cognitive Processes, Deduction, Grade 8
Fancett, Verna S.; And Others – 1968
Intended to introduce teachers to the concept approach in teaching social studies materials, the five chapters of this publication discuss (1) a definition of "concept" and the term's relationship to facts and generalizations, (2) the function of concepts in the social sciences, (3) how concepts develop, (4) how concepts are related to inquiry and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
Taylor, Arthur M. – 1970
The reports of eight studies testing the effects of elaboration on the learning of children are compiled in this document. Mental elaboration is "thinking while learning" which occurs as the learner actively adds context to the material he is asked to process. Supplied elaboration, included in these studies, occurs when the learner is provided…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Elementary School Students, Learning Processes
Stones, E. – 1970
The readings compiled for this collection require that the reader have an acquaintance with the basic ideas in the field of educational psychology and a desire to read further and make direct contact with some original sources. The main selection criterion of the papers that are included was their coverage of classroom learning with particular…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Educational Psychology, Intellectual Disciplines
Barnes, Buckley Richard – 1972
The purpose of the study, part of the research and curriculum development of the Anthropology Curriculum Project, was to compare the facilitative effects of pre- and post-organizers on the learning of structured anthropology materials at the sixth-grade level. Organizers were defined, in this thesis, as written material that serves the function of…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Research, Doctoral Dissertations
Clawson, Elmer Ulmont – 1972
This dissertation report, stemming from research and curriculum development activities of the Anthropology Curriculum Project, investigates the facilitative effects of pre-organizers, post-organizers, and no-organizers on the learning of anthropological concepts in the third grade. The investigation was an outgrowth of interest in Ausubel's theory…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Research, Doctoral Dissertations
Hillman, Stephen B. – 1972
Examined were the effects of memory and inference questions on learning in 90 educable mentally retarded children (aged 9 to 13 years) who were read a short story, each section of which was preceded or followed by a training question which cued relevant information. Results indicated that those questions which followed the presentation of sections…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Inquiry, Learning Processes, Logical Thinking
Watson, Paul G. – 1972
An attempt is made in this monograph to synthesize and review the literature dealing with the use of computers in education. Chapter one reviews current modes of computer utilization in education, sketches some of the historical antecedents leading to the current state of the art, and defines some of the terminology and concepts referred to in the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Educational Change, Individual Differences
Maryland Univ., College Park. Cooperative Extension Service. – 1969
A discussion of human behavior is presented. The methods involved in planning the Institute, the teaching-learning process, and the experiences encountered by the participants are summarized. The document has three main parts. Part I contains lecture abstracts by invited speakers. Part II reviews the experiences of the Personal Interaction…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Behavioral Science Research, Bibliographies, Group Behavior
Elardo, Richard, E.; Pagan, Betty, Ed. – 1972
These proceedings of the first annual SACUS workshop on infant day care contain the papers presented at the conference, plus an appendix--Developmental Objectives for Infants and Toddlers. The papers are: "Infant Day Care--Fads, Facts, and Fancies" by Bettye M. Caldwell; "Family Day Care""A Broad Perspective" by Malcolm S. Host; "Getting…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Child Development, Day Care, Early Experience
GAGNE, ROBERT M.; AND OTHERS – 1965
TWO DIFFERENT USES OF VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR SCIENCE INSTRUCTION WERE INVESTIGATED. THE FIRST STUDY EXAMINED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT USE OF PICTORIAL INSTRUCTION WOULD PRODUCE HIGHER CORRELATION BETWEEN RESULTS OF VISUAL APTITUDE TESTS AND LEARNING TESTS, AND THAT VERBAL INSTRUCTION WOULD PRODUCE HIGHER CORRELATION BETWEEN RESULTS OF VERBAL…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Audiovisual Aids, Grade 8, Individual Differences
