This study describes three cases which illustrate the experiences of three teams of elementary teachers engaged in implementing a new district-developed U.S. History unit. This district-created unit was written by a small group of teachers under the supervision of a district curriculum specialist. Each of the three teams studied varied in their…

This study determines the efficiency of a system containing aptitude, achievement, and noncognitive data, and a measure of college performance in predicting the long-range educational-vocational decisions of engineering students. Noncognitive data best predicts between intellectually homogeneous student groupings whereas first-semester grade point…

Presents an overview of past approaches to language arts, current thinking, and results of a preliminary study suggesting practical routes for implementing the new research findings in the classroom. (CS/Author)

The first part of this article reviews research comparing innovative to traditional curriculum introduced since 1957 and draws tentative conclusions about the influence of curricula on school achievement; the second part explores the implications of those conclusions for educational theory, research, evaluation, and practice. (JH)

This article examines the status of geography at eighteen senior colleges and twenty-six junior colleges in Mississippi. Data is provided on the number of schools offering geography, on course offerings, student enrollment, and faculty training. Recommendations are made on how to encourage growth of the discipline in the state. (SM)

This article describes some of the progress of a research program stressing the need for the development of reinforcement principles in education, the need for behavior analysis, and the need for wider utilization of learning principles. (Author/RK)

Discusses mastery testing as a method for evaluating music education. (RK)

Discusses the necessity to account for the nature of experience as an approach to curriculum. The author suggests that when curriculum theory is conceived as a nonnormative discipline (concerned with creating educational environments that enhance the quality of experience), the narrow limits of behavioristic education are left behind. (JF)

Presents an overview of changing concerns in British curriculum research since 1950. The discussion covers the role of government agencies in curriculum research, the demand for both practical curriculum evaluation and theoretical models, new directions of study and recent paradigm shifts. (AM)

An analysis of 14 introductory physical geography textbooks yielded 121 core concepts (basic concepts appearing in 7-10 books). The authors suggest that the trend toward overspecialization in introductory geography classes can be reversed if teachers agree to stress core concepts and their relationships to geography as a whole. (AM)

Describing a rationale and structure for including more goods servicing activities in industrial arts curricula, this article discusses servicing careers and describes a servicing systems model and a product servicing model. (LRA)

Compares results of a 1979 survey of graduates of Pennsylvania State University's English teacher preparation program with results of a 1969 survey of Illinois English teachers. Indicates changes found in undergraduate English education programs and in teachers' perceptions of the effectiveness of the programs. Also discusses the impact of…

A comparison of the effects of didactic and experiential death education curriculums show no decrease in death anxiety from mid- to posttesting for any treatment group. Anxiety was increased from pre- to mid-testing for some students. Results may be due to model deficiencies. Further research is suggested. (JAC)