The PARSEL project was initiated to disseminate teaching modules, based on a philosophical model, which was in line with a need to promote scientific literacy, in a manner considered to be both popular and relevant for students. The project was based on the belief that this approach would allow students to better realize that science was for all,…

A video mock-up is a "design story", described by Patrick Parrish in a recent "TechTrends" article as "imagining the journey of a learner's experience in engaging with a finished design". A design story allows designers to show their design vision to others and to observe features and benefits of the program as a learner would experience it. The…

The major purpose of this paper is to examine the problems of geralizing from the Graduated Work Incentive experimental setting to the national labor-supply responses that would be generated by a negative income tax that replaced existing welfare programs for families headed by able-bodied males. (Author/BP)

This document describes the experimental teacher education curriculum developed by the University of Hawaii and reports an investigation of its effectiveness: a comparison between the achievement of 165 students who entered the experimental program in 1961 and that of 165 who entered the regular program the same year. Chapter 1 describes the…

Focuses on innovative theater workshops implemented in the New Jersey, New York and Minnesota correctional systems. For availability see CS 703 689. (MH)

This article describes a research study that compared the success of the "adventure playground" to that of a conventional playground. (JA)

Synanon uses many of the same methods used in its drug rehabilitation program in its educational program which includes 230 children in its membership. The Synanon "indictment game" is one of the methods used. (JA)

This paper is an account of the first two years of the Experimental Study Group, a full-time program of supervised independent study for undergraduates, together with suggestions for those working in or planning similar programs in otherwise traditional schools. (Authors/JA)

Author describes an experiment to inter-weave three disciplines-history, sociology, and philosophy-in an extra-mural course on violence and revolution. (Editor/LF)

The role of research in higher education is analyzed with a history of how it achieved its status and an analogy of what circumstances must surround its continuance. (HS)

Centers could do much to increase the registers of adult education centers if they exploited the educational possibilities found within counter attractions. Author describes one successful attempt to put this into practice. (RB)

In an innovative program which is being tested in California schools, students furnish and develop ideas for products, investigate and determine the feasibility of manufacturing and marketing these products, and plan and implement the manufacturing and marketing of selected products on a limited basis. (JK)

The Knitting, Lace, and Net Industry Training Board in Great Britain is beginning to work with management training, using three firms for experimental pilot projects. The Board plans to introduce this management system throughout the industry. (MF)