Meaningful and challenging seatwork, different kinds of work, minimum teacher preparation time, writing and explaining directions, evaluating student work, and organization and management are discussed. Preparatory steps for planning seatwork activities are described and consider identifying information, specification of major skills, objectives,…

To examine the effects of varied roles, forms of feedback, and error spacing on subject attitudes and learning in programed instruction (PI), 125 students in an introductory psychology course were randomly assigned to treatment groups differentiated by three ways of spacing error-producing frames (spaced, semi-massed, and massed), two forms of…

Mitchell High has been operating under a modular scheduling system for two years. Earlier studies have measured student and faculty opinion. This study was designed to sample parent opinion. Four hundred parents, constituting a 20% random sampling of the 2,000 students enrolled in grades 10-12, were mailed questionnaires in May 1969. Responses…

The best techniques of individualized instruction have been utilized in the development of the program in this new middle school. Team teaching will provide for large and small group instruction plus opportunities for independent study. The teacher teams will utilize both the horizontal and vertical organizational approach. Diagrams of the…

This report reviews evaluations of two instructional systems that the faculty of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, are now using in their extramural teaching. The systems are (1) "Univex Net," which transmits audio and visual signals via telephone lines from one campus classroom to another classroom located somewhere…

The Learning Resources Center (LRC) represents a merger of library and audiovisual resources. The material in this publication consists of an overview of the various aspects involved in this merger. There are chapters on the emergence of the LRC: the library as LRC; LRC administration; resource centers in elementary schools, secondary schools, and…

This thesis examined evaluative information concerning the effect a 4-year interdisciplinary humanities program--in which the prevailing teaching technique was oral communication--had on the theories considered important in the educational process. Approximately 300 twelfth grade verbal and math Scholastic Aptitude Test scores of students taught…

A project developed the Packaged Self-Instruction Program (PSIP), a multimedia kit designed to be a complete inservice training package for educators who work with slow learners. Complete details of the project which was funded by Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III, are supplied in the format required by the U.S. Office of…

Nontraditional higher education is a movement toward increasing the options open to an individual in the pursuit of post secondary education. Its major emphasis is in recognition of individual differences and making institutions more flexible in response to them. This paper describes many programs and proposals throughout the country, giving…

This report presents the outlines of a unique counseling program offered to freshmen at the University of Notre Dame. The 10 faculty counselors advise and attend to the interests of each student, to help them make a better transition from high school to college. The program emphasizes effective and continuous counseling and testing. Aptitude,…

The why, how, and where of all of the adult's learning projects are encompassed in this book. The central focus is on the adult's efforts to learn, in particular, his decisions, preparations, reasons for learning, help, problems, and needs. The 15 chapters of the book discuss the following: highly deliberate efforts to learn; episodes and learning…

This book is a descriptive compilation of various innovative practices adopted by the schools associated with the Educational Research Council of America. The program descriptions are presented in alphabetical order by school district and then by schools within these districts. The index provides an alphabetical listing by specific type of…

Research on which aspects of the instructional process are most appropriately placed under learner control is reviewed. The review covers representative experiments from the 1960's in brief and experiments at the University of Texas from 1970 to 1973 in more detail. Although it appears that learner control can be helpful in mainline…

This self-instruction manual contains nine lessons on news writing. They are: (1) what is news?; (2) how do you report news?; (3) polish your style; (4) write a better sentence; (5) getting the facts; (6) you're on your own--writing a news story from a collection of facts; (7) practice makes perfect--more news writing from a collection of facts;…

The objective of the study was to predict potential procrastinators in a self-pacing instructional system. Seventy-five entering college freshmen were randomly selected to participate in a large scale individually-paced program. Those students (25) who procrastinated were classified as "no-start-procrastinators" (NSP); the remainder (52) were…