This report was prepared to provide participating school personnel and other concerned educators with a short summary of the National Longitudinal Study and some of the results to date. Part I describes the planning and development of the Study including information on samples, data collection, and procedures. Part II presents a brief description…

The Hunter College High School Twelfth grade humanities curriculum was designed to end the artificiality between life and learning as found in the traditional program of studies. An effort was made to restructure the final year of high school to focus on Man rather than subjects, to see the interrelationships of the disciplines, and to end the…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 9-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Basic mathematics. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has three main sections--general mathematics, applied mathematics, and senior mathematics. The material in each section is set out in four columns--major areas, significant anticipated outcomes, observations and suggestions, and…

GRADES OR AGES: Senior high school (Grades 10-12). SUBJECT MATTER: The Negro in United States history. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has 12 units: 1) African Background; 2) Exploration; 3) The Revolution; 4) The Constitution; 5) Westward Expansion; 6) Slavery; 7) Lincoln and Slavery; 8) The Civil War; 9) Reconstruction; 10)…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Health Education. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory material for both junior and senior high suggests a time schedule for the major units and presents a program overview. The text is divided into four columns: basic concepts, learning experiences, expected outcomes, and references.…

The objective of this study was to conduct an intensive investigation of the relationship between Lorge Thorndike IQ subtest and Torrance creativity subtest scores. Ss were 154 twelfth graders. First order partial correlations were about .50 between different sets of creativity subtests with different IQ subtests partialled out. Canonical…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 9-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Business. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: This guide, designed for direct student use, indicates the parts of a business letter, a placement guide, and steps for typing letters. Worksheets and illustrations indicate forms of block and indented styles; open, closed, and mixed punctuation; the…

GRADES OR AGES: 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. SUBJECT MATTER: Social Studies. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: This guide is divided into three color-coded sections corresponding to each grade level. Introductory material for each section includes objectives of the course, concepts based upon course objectives, and an orientation to the…

Principals, teachers and students of 12 Memphis city high schools provided attitudinal data concerning the Advanced Placement Biology Program. Test score data were obtained from the students and compared to national norms for the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Tests and the Cooperative Test Battery in English and Biology. The program was strongly…

Reports on a study which evaluated the effectiveness of the GIVE AND TAKE film series and the accompanying print materials for teaching twelfth grade economics. Discusses the research method and concludes that the GIVE AND TAKE materials are more effective than traditional textbooks for the teaching of basic economic concepts. (Author/GEA)

The purpose of this report is to increase understanding of the achievement levels for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), what they are, and what they are not. NAEP is a survey of American students' knowledge and skills in different subjects at grades 4, 8, and 12. NAEP combines the samples of performances to provide…

Early in 2003, the National Assessment Governing Board established the National Commission on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 12th Grade Assessment and Reporting, following the recommendation of retiring Governing Board Executive Director Roy Truby. The Governing Board's charge to the Commission was "To review the…

This paper presents a snapshot of world history education to illuminate the challenges that the National Assessment Governing Board faces in creating a National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) world history framework. Using state standards documents, statutes concerning high school graduation, results from the NAEP transcript studies,…

A mini-company formed by the students and teachers of a three hour block of office education provides on the job experience as a method of improving office skills for twelfth graders at Fulton High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. (AG)

The author advocates teaching computer programming at the junior and senior year levels of high school. (AG)