WITHIN THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, LITERATURE ON EDUCATION OF THE "CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED" HAS EXPANDED TREMENDOUSLY. LITERATURE ON ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE AMONG THE CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED HAS PROLIFERATED. AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO SYNTHESIZE SUCH LITERATURE AND TO PLACE IT IN A PROPER PERSPECTIVE. ITS AIM WAS TO AID THE PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATOR…

OVER A PERIOD OF 21 YEARS THE HORACE MANN-LINCOLN INSTITUTE HAS UNDERGONE MANY CHANGES. ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE, FIELD EXPERIMENTATION, WAS SOMEWHAT FORMALIZED INTO ACTION RESEARCH, THE IDEA BEING THAT RESEARCH IN CONJUNCTION WITH ACTION MIGHT AMOUNT TO AN EDUCATIONAL FORM OF THE WAR-TIME "OPERATIONS RESEARCH." GRADUALLY, THE INSTITUTE…

THIS DOCUMENT IS A SECOND-YEAR PROJECT REPORT OF A 5-YEAR EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM TO DEVELOP AN ANTHROPOLOGY CURRICULUM FOR GRADES 1 THROUGH 7. THE MATERIAL IS IN A SELF-CONTAINED UNIT PACKAGE FOR EACH GRADE, REQUIRES 4 TO 5 WEEKS PER UNIT, AND IS DESIGNED TO FIT INTO A SOCIAL STUDIES COURSE WITHOUT DISRUPTION OF NORMAL SCHOOL ACTIVITIES. EACH UNIT…

The purpose of this paper is to describe a few planning issues to be borne in mind when discussing the presentation of a teaching-learning strategy. Three general areas are discussed: the socioeconomic context (the diagnostic phase), the developmental stage (the experimental stage), and the implementation phase. The first step in the planning…

As did Lorton and Rikers Island, the Draper Education and Development (E&D) Project demonstrated the feasibility of operating a manpower training program in a correctional setting. However, it was demonstrated that education and training per se are not enough to effect the broad changes in inmates required for successful social adjustment. The…

A survey of staff and student attitudes toward selected innovative approaches to learning that had been in operation for four years was conducted. The population surveyed comprised the entire Bettendorf, Iowa, Middle School staff and student body. Questionnaires were developed to elicit pertinent staff and student opinions toward (a) space…

The Committee to Investigate Copyright Problems (CICP), a non-profit organization dedicated to resolving the conflict known as the "copyright photocopying problem" was joined by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), a large national publisher of technical and scientific standards, in a plan to simulate a long-proposed…

Analyzed are the results from a follow-up of two groups of college students: (1) a sample of 400 students who started 9th grade in 1958 and graduate from high school in 1962, and (2) a sample of 728 students who were in high school from 1959 to 1963. Both samples were limited to those students who had continued on to college. The purposes of this…

This report is a compilation of reports and abstracts relating to research and innovative instructional activities conducted at Santa Fe Junior College (Florida) during the 1970-71 academic year. It is the third of an annual series and serves to document what has been tried at the college to encourage others to re-examine and experiment, and to…

The primary purposes of this study were (1) to determine whether significant differences existed among second-grade experimental and control groups in the rated quality of their compositions and in their use of selected syntactic structures at the end of a one year experimental program in written composition, and (2) to determine the relationships…

The basic purpose of the present study was to study the effectiveness of using trained peers to lead small process groups in freshman orientation. A sample of 253 freshman students from East Central State College in Ada, Oklahoma, were used for the experiment. The instrument used to determine whether perceptions of the college campus climate…

Comprehensive musicianship is a concept about teaching and learning music. It is an approach that suggests that the source of all musical study is the "literature" of music, and promotes the integration of all aspects of music study. This volume presents a synthesis of the philosophy and practice of 32 experimental programs based on the concept of…

The Paracollege of St. Olaf College is a satellite institution in which educational experimentation takes place. The paracollege has a student body of 240 and the faculty numbers 21. In addition to the other aims of St. Olaf as a whole, the Paracollege has as its objectives (1) to be an experimenting unit of St. Olaf College, always searching for…

This document presents a discussion of several dependent variables related to the topic of student choice of subject matter within specified courses. The dependent variables discussed are: attitudes, personality, pacing, achievement, future choices, and varied instructional outputs. Personality has never been used as a dependent variable in any…

EFFECTS OF TONAL MEMORY OF TWO KINDS OF FACTORS WERE STUDIED. THE FACTORS WERE (1) THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STIMULI PRESENTED TO THE SUBJECT IN A PITCH IDENTIFICATION TASK, AND (2) THOSE EFFECTING THE RESPONSE THAT THE SUBJECT MAKES IN SUCH A TASK. FIVE HYPOTHESES WERE ADVANCED FOR STUDY. THE UNDERLYING ASSUMPTION WAS THAT THERE ARE IMPORTANT…