This report describes research into the effectiveness of the language laboratory in improving students' reading, listening and speaking skills in secondary school language programs. The experiment, involving some 5,000 students in 21 school districts of the Metropolitan School Study Council, was restricted to students of French. Student…

The authors of this volume divide their consideration of decision-making into three major areas: 1) a step-by-step analysis for a systematic decision-making process that has widespread application; 2) an explicit description of the legal and extralegal components of the current decision-making structure; and 3) a review of some changing concepts…

The Auditory Discrimination in Depth (A.D.D.) Program suggests that there is a direct relationship between auditory discrimination or auditory perceptual ability and the development of competency in language and literacy skills. (Auditory perceptual ability is defined as the ability to discriminate individual phonemes and to track their changing…

Evaluated is an extended school day program initiated with Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, funds. To alleviate learning difficulties faced by disadvantaged children in the classroom, this after school program provided additional teacher time, attention, and instruction. The program offered tutorial services in reading and…

This survey of "listening, as a receptive communication skill," summarizes major research on listening in the following areas: (1) "Scope and Extent of Listening," (2) " Literature on Listening," (3) "Relationships to Listening"--the interrelationships between listening and such factors as reading skills, intelligence, school achievement, cultural…

To evaluate the effectiveness of an engineered classroom design, 54 educationally handicapped children were placed in six classrooms, each with a teacher and an aide. Each classroom was set up with three major centers: mastery-achievement, exploratory-social, and attention-response-order. Children were assigned tasks at centers in keeping with…

A discussion of the challenge and promise of honors courses precedes an examination of an American History honors class composed of 24 high school juniors and seniors selected by one or more sets of criteria. The students came from well educated parents who raised comparatively small families, 13 were either first born or only children, and all…

Twelve chapters describe an 18-nation study of educational attainment at the elementary and secondary school levels. Professional researchers participated in the project, developed through UNESCO and conducted under the auspices of educational research centers in Australia, Belgium, Chile, England, the Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, France,…

Discussions and information are concerned with free time and leisure, age, impairment, and leisure, and poverty and leisure; the prevalence of blindness, the self-perception of the blind, their activity and mobility limitations; and problems of poverty of the blind in education, employment, income, and living arrangements. Also discussed are…

These volumes comprise (1) Books VII and VIII in the Curriculum Improvement Programs in English Language Skills for Schools of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands materials; and (2) accompanying Student Booklets introducing reading and writing exercises for each lesson. See related documents AL 002 134 for a description of the Program, AL…

These volumes comprise (1) Books IX and X, the final texts in the Curriculum Improvement Program in English Language Skills for Schools of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands materials; and (2) accompanying Student Booklets introducing reading and writing exercises for each lesson. See related documents AL 002 134 for a description of the…

To improve the education of culturally disadvantaged children, this project focused on children's specific behavioral deficits, teacher preparation, parent attitudes, health and service agencies, and local school districts. The project was carried out in a rural Appalachian school with 122 children, 30 percent Negro and 70 percent white, and in an…

This curriculum bulletin focuses on instruction in the Connecticut public schools in modern foreign languages and Latin. A curriculum outline for levels 1 through 6 and appendixes treating a glossary of terms, patterns as grammar, and a sample test comprise the section on modern languages. The Latin topics cover: (1) phonology, (2) morphology, (3)…

It is asserted in this paper that some standardized tests do not do a good job of what they claim to do, and for some testing purposes nonstandardized tests are more appropriate or efficient. Under present circumstances, group I.Q. tests should be abolished. They provide no useful information that cannot be gained from achievement tests. And what…

"Educational Futuristics," a pilot instructional module for a foundations of education course, resulted in the compilation of these guidelines. The aim of educational futuristics noted in the introduction is to increase student awareness of trends in the environment and of the impact of choices in the future, as well as to equip students…