The purpose of this study was to acquire baseline data about students' environmental knowledge and attitudes and to study the relationships of attitudes and knowledge to variables that would be of interest in evaluative measures. Three forms of an inventory were developed to test knowledge of specific facts and general concepts of the environment,…

The document consists of all the material contained in the Student Guide as well as special material to guide the counselor at each step of the program, supplementary material on evaluation, and the introductory correspondence forms. Suggestions are made on how to select students for the career planning program. The background notes indicate the…

The purpose of this paper is to utilize data from 478 East Texas Negro sophomores to determine what extent (nonmetropolitan or metropolitan) residence and sex differences exist in the identity of reference individuals selected by adolescents. Major findings were (1) that place of residence makes less difference in the selection patterns than does…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Reading. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory material includes the philosophy and goals of reading instruction, organization and methods, schedule, class record sheet, group informal inventories, basic principles, guided reading lessons, secondary individual developmental reading…

This study investigated the efficacy of compressed speech with ninth and tenth grade students having reading problems. Thirty-eight ninth and tenth grade students who were reading at least one year below grade level, had an IQ between 85 and 115, and had no known gross auditory or visual defect were chosen as subjects. Three one-hour sessions were…

The O'Donnell "Perception of Alternate Structures Test" (P. A. S. T.) was designed to produce a more efficient measure of perception of syntactic features. Like Simons'"Deep Structure Recovery Test" (D. S. R. T.), the P. A. S. T. has two sentences in each item that are similar in underlying structure. Like the earlier O'Donnell "Test of…

This series of four text-workbooks was designed for tenth grade mathematics students who have exhibited lack of problem-solving skills. Electric desk calculators are to be used with the text. In the first five chapters of the series, students learn how to use the machine while reviewing basic operations with whole numbers, decimals, fractions, and…

THIS 10TH-GRADE CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR TEACHERS DEALT WITH (1) 20TH-CENTURY LYRIC POETRY AND (2) THE COMPARISON BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC AND POETIC WRITINGS. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS INCLUDING BIBLIOGRAPHICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION, TEACHING METHODS, SUGGESTIONS, EXERCISES, AND COMPOSITION TOPICS WERE PRESENTED FOR BOTH PARTS. THE STUDENT VERSION IS…

A CURRICULUM GUIDE ON "THE ODYSSEY" WAS PREPARED FOR TEACHERS. A COMPLETE EXPLANATION OF THE POEM AND A DISCUSSION OF THE EPIC TRADITION, OF WHICH THE POEM IS REPRESENTATIVE, WERE PROVIDED. THIS UNIT DEPARTED FROM THE PATTERN OF OTHER LITERATURE CURRICULUM GUIDES BY PRESENTING ONLY A TEACHER VERSION TO SEE HOW WELL GRADE 10 STUDENTS…

Describes a class hour in a 10th grade class in English, using the teaching unit "USA." Historical and geographical aspects are considered. The aim is to acquire sociological knowledge and to articulate it in English. For each phase of the hour, introductory questions, goals, and materials used are provided. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

In grades 8, 10, and 12, 464 subjects were tested on each of the four basic principles of conditional reasoning with (1) Four Card problem tasks and (2) a paper-and-pencil instrument. It was shown that the two assessment procedures lack concurrent validity. (Author/MN)

The author discusses the aims, outline, and evaluation of an existing self-paced ungraded mathematics program for grades eight, nine, and ten. (MN)

Presents the results of a major survey (n=14,051) of secondary students' sense of Canadian identity, pride, unity, and purpose. The survey covered all ten provinces and the two territories. Results showed students throughout Canada share similar perceptions of a myriad of issues and concerns, demonstrating that Canadian studies courses were…

Examines gender and rural-urban differences in achievement and macro- and micro-skills in mathematics. A representative sample of classrooms consisting of 1587 students from a mid-western Canadian province was administered a standardized achievement test battery. Concludes females scored better than males in all areas except mathematics and…

Evaluated the effects of the processes of working alone and of working in pairs on 10th-grade students' performance of tasks involving comprehension and production of electrical diagrams. Sociocognitive interaction had positive effects on students' individual performances, and peer interaction favored the implementation of metacognitive…