Because of the active interest of English teachers in standardized tests and the increased use of such tests to measure student performance, the emphasis section of this issue of "The English Record" contains articles addressing this subject from several perspectives. A report of a survey on standardized testing in New York State sets the scene,…

The Vocabulary Development Project (VDP) was a pilot study designed to demonstrate that significant improvement in language skills is possible with a sustained, massive program of vocabulary exercises. The subjects were inner-city fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. As this project was not a full-blown experimental study, a control…

A 6-week summer program provided 51 gifted 4th and 5th graders with nonstructured experience in problem solving in science and language arts and in satisfying of operant needs. Fifty one matched children served as controls. Divided into four groups, the children worked with four teachers acting primarily as resource consultants. Testing…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect that systematic training in purposive listening has on seventh-grade pupils. Ninety subjects were randomly selected and assigned to three groups: an experimental group which received purposive listening treatment, an isolated-control group which received instruction in literature study with no…

Today's classroom pupils are oriented toward content rather than independent study goals and, consequently, they will be unprepared to face the complex changes in society occurring during their lives. To rectify this deficiency, pupils need to learn the skills of discovery. Classrooms must become centers of intellectual ferment, with teachers…

The author feels that it is legitimate to center a survey of the language sciences around the field of linguistics. This survey is based in part on his own view of the scientific study of language, and in part on an informal sampling of the literature available to him. He gives first a characterization of the field of linguistics, then a…

Curriculum needs of Navajo Indian children are identified. The listings were developed by committees through the Bureau of Indian Affairs. School curriculum needs are indicated for the following areas: art, guidance, health, language arts, mathematics, music, science, and nature of the learner's adult society. The creative growth and informational…

This is a supplementary catalog of books, pamphlets, and instructional materials acquired by the DHEW Region VIII Adult Basic Education Library since the publication of the previous catalog in January 1969. It is organized by subject matter and includes Administration, Arithmetic, Equipment and Facilities, Evaluation, Family Life Education,…

This study attempted to estimate by objective means the level of sophistication of high school students' interest in fiction and to determine the degree to which sophistication was related to selected personality factors and to sex, age, intelligence, and reading achievement. A scale was developed to measure sophistication of reading interests; a…

Career Development education is inseparable from education in general since, ultimately, education leads to vocational choice. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the school to develop a positive attitude in all students toward work and to foster the idea that all work is honorable. In Anne Arundel County, Maryland, the process of internalizing…

Recognizing that the enrichment of the child's language arts experience is a prime educational responsibility, this booklet presents language learning materials which focus on teaching as developing awareness, widening the pupil's breadth of understanding, correcting poor habits, and cultivating positive attitudes toward language learning.…

The purpose of this study is to examine bidialectalism as an educational policy. The study is in two major sections: the first portion is concerned with the problems inherent in the policy process itself, with those aspects of educational decision-making which combine to make reasonable policy outcomes difficult to achieve; the second section…

This study was designed to ascertain whether the self-acceptance of second grade Chicano children could be improved by incorporating into the curriculum selected activities which reflected characteristics of each child to himself and by adding a supplementary language experience approach to reading. Subjects included 91 children from two…

This document defines culturally disadvantaged students as those students who have not had the environmental advantages that middle-class students have enjoyed, although not all such children are from homes of the poor. In viewing the research in the teaching of language arts skills to the culturally deprived, certain generalizations emerged. Some…

In introducing drama into the elementary classroom it is wise to start by having children portray that which they have experienced. First attempts should be short and simple with later attempts more complex and of longer duration. The first section of this bulletin offers numerous types of preliminary activities. The remainder of the booklet…