Given the expectation of education personnel that parents should be passive participants in the educational planning process and given the historical lack of access to information experienced by many culturally diverse parents, an attempt was made to ascertain the knowledge level of 13 Black parents with handicapped children with regard to…

By 1960 there was a strongly developed theory of learning in which learning was considered as change of behavior. Neobehaviorist theories and then formal stochastic models analyzed processes in which probabilities of responses are altered. In the 1960's, analysis of learning as a discrete change between states of knowledge or stages of processing…

Interviews with 548 heads of household randomly selected from the Columbus, Ohio, telephone directory provided data on the subjects' political knowledge, news information sources (television, newspapers), and educational level. These data supported three of five hypotheses about the relation between knowledge level and media dependence. There was…

Two main purposes of this study were (1) to determine knowledges and abilities needed to perform professional activities in large public libraries and (2) to determine th degree to which existing library education develops those knowledges and abilities. Using data collected from librarians in thirteen large public libraries and faculty in twelve…

Forty-four employees of the General Extension Division of the Nebraska Agricultural Extension Service and 119 Agricultural Extension employees of the University of Nebraska comprised the population of this study comparing personnel's knowledge of Agricultural Extension and General Extension programs and differences in knowledge of programs…

This document is a companion volume to "Resources for School Based Teacher Educators" and provides a self-assessment instrument for teacher educators in rating themselves on the twenty competencies described in that volume. The instrument consists of sixty-six items, for which the teacher educator is asked to assess his competence on a…

The experiment described in this paper is concerned with prose learning. In the field of the psychology of learning, a section was arbitrarily chosen and covered by 21 passages of equal length. Six contained the essential information concerning the six keywords (elements) of the domain. The fifteen others dealt with all possible relationships…

The evaluation of the traffic safety curriculum as presented to K-9 students in North Carolina focused on three areas: (1) the extent to which students acquired the information included in the curriculum, (2) the extent to which students showed a change in their actual pedestrian and bicyclist behavior, and (3) the extent to which teachers made…

This study assessed the value of teaching young children the relevant attributes of a concept and the conceptual rule by which the attributes are organized. It was hypothesized that only if children had prior knowledge of both components could they follow instructions designed to teach a new concept. It was further hypothesized that children who…

This report on drugs is based on mail responses received from urban and suburban high school students enrolled in college preparatory courses. The questions asked of these students included: (1) how do teenagers feel about the use of the various kinds of drugs by people their age? (2) what makes some teenagers use such drugs? (3) what keeps some…

A knowledge test covering subject matter of the Beginning Sewing TV series was sent to 344 registrants following the series, to measure the program effectiveness. Although the response was small (38%), characteristics of the viewers were identified: median age of 44.1 years; married for 21.3 years, family size of 3.8, completion of an average of…

A random sampling of 398 heads of households was selected from eight community center areas out of a total of 1,136. Three hundred eighty-four of this group were interviewed. Two hundred fifty-seven of those interviewed claimed to be acquainted with the CAP, and 127 claimed not to be, while 14 refused to be interviewed. Findings indicate that the…

The increasing trend toward the formulation of student learnings in goal-based rather than textbook-based organizations, and the steadily growing concern for openness and flexibility in education have created a pressing need for a comprehensive, validated system for classification of knowledge, process, and value student learnings. Such a system…

There is a need for ethical guidance in the communications professions sharpened by the advancement of knowledge and technological capability. For communication to be all-encompassing in space as well as instantaneous in time is a mixed blessing reaffirming the need for balance between "secrecy" in arriving at decisions and the public's need and…

The Illinois Self-Rating Scale was developed to assess the teaching skills, knowledge of English (written composition, literature, oral communication) and personal qualifications of secondary school teachers at different levels of teaching experience. Seven forms, A-G, are available for the rating of student teachers, beginning teachers, and…