The guide has been revised to accommodate the adoption of "Physical Science Study Committee College Physics" as the basic textbook for this course. An introduction describes the scope and objectives of the course. Presented are suggestions for teaching the course, content, time allotment to topics, laboratory work, evaluation, materials…

Curriculum guidelines for teacher use in organizing and teaching a course to prepare 11th and 12th grade students for entry level clothing service occupations were developed as part of a pilot study which is reported in VT 006 870. The 1-year program requires 2 hours daily; a 1-hour lab experience or on-the-job work experience is suggested for the…

This mastery test is designed to accompany unit 3 of the second-semester 12th-grade course, "Comparing Political Experiences." The 24-item multiple-choice test was developed by the National Evaluation Systems, Inc. in conjunction with the project directors to determine whether the unit objectives have been achieved. The test measures…

A comprehensive survey of high school sophomores and juniors, and another survey of seniors in Economic Region IV of Indiana, were conducted to determine their preferred career and occupational choices. Examination of the 7,188 underclassmen questionnaires and 2,744 senior questionnaires revealed that, although many sophomores' and juniors' career…

These are the student materials for the experimental 12th grade economics course outlined and described in ECON 12: Teacher's Materials (see SO 000 029). The materials for the seven lessons of Unit I, "What is Economics," and the eight lessons of Unit II, "U. S. Price System," include content outlines, worksheets, graphs, some…

This study investigated (1) whether teaching applied linguistics can help high school students learn to write more effectively, and (2) which approach, linguistic or traditional, is more effective in teaching composition. Twelfth grade male students (188) in a private metropolitan high school were randomly assigned to six sample groups, fairly…

The purpose of this study was to see if learning could be improved by controlling the environment at the individual student's level. A pretest, post-test, random choice design was chosen to obtain data from over 900 subjects of technical-vocational schools, area community colleges, and high schools of Iowa, with emphasis on grades 11 and 12 and…

The major purposes of this study were to describe the responses of adolescent readers to three short stories; to describe the interpretive processes they employed; to identify their reading and interpreting difficulties; and to discover what relationship existed between the readers' stated awareness of an interpretive process and both the…

This is one of a series of reports on the National Longitudinal Study of Mathematical Abilities (NLSMA). Further, it is of the subseries that analyzed data for the purpose of identifying differential patterns of mathematics achievement which are correlated with different textbook series. This particular report considers comparisons made for the…

In an evaluation of the Reading Efficiency course at Windermere Secondary School, the experimental group made greater gains (statistically significant at the .01 level) in the Reading Rate subtest of the Nelson-Denny Reading Test than did the control group. The experimental group also made greater gains than the control group in reading rate on…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 6-12. SUBJECT MATTER: French language, literature, and civilization. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into seven sections, one for each grade. Each section is in list form. It is mimeographed and spiral bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: Each section lists several general…

This master's thesis sought to examine factors which encourage Indian students in Apache and Navajo counties in Arizona to seek higher education after high school graduation. Information was sought in an attempt to answer the following question: What effect do the tribal scholarship fund, students themselves, parents, high school teachers, and…

Consumer Education is a mini-course designed for all seniors in high school. It was developed on the premise that a student needs to evolve his own value system, develop a sound decision-makingprocedure based upon his values, evaluate alternatives in the marketplace and get the best buys for his money, understand his rights and responsibilities as…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 10, 11, and 12. SUBJECT MATTER: Physical health and nutrition. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into four sections: prenatal and infant nutrition, nutrition in an ecological context, new frontiers in nutrition research, and the responsibility of nutrition. The publication format of four columns…

This study empirically tests the extent to which four experimental units in government influence the acquisition of political knowledge and the development of feelings of political efficacy and cynicism among Anglo, Black, and Mexican-American twelfth graders. Two classes regularly taught at two high schools were compared with two experimental…