This final report describes the fourth year of the New Nursery School Program (NNS) set up for environmentally deprived, Spanish-surnamed 3- and 4-year-old children. The school was organized as an autotelic environment which the children (15 in each of two sessions) attended for 3 hours a day. Upon entering, children were pretested on the Wechsler…

The components of school satisfaction among eighth graders as measured by the Student Opinion Poll (SOP) and the relationships of these components with various achievement and ability scores were determined through factor analysis. Four components of school satisfaction were interpretable in meaningful terms: teacher student relationships, student…

This report contains estimates of hearing levels for children 6 to 11 years of age in the United States as determined in the second cycle of the Health Examination Survey, conducted during 1963-1965. A probability sample (N=7,119) was selected to represent the 24 million children 6 to 11 years of age in the noninstitutional population. Hearing…

A review of research literature revealed that some researchers felt that the use of colored rods, such as the Cuisenaire materials, in teaching number work gave perceptual support to many relationships. Experiments conducted over 3 years attempted to test some of these relationships. During each year, experimental classes in grade one were…

The author lists steps for constructing a research study guaranteeing "statistically significant results when comparing two populations which differ linguistically." Many of these steps are direct quotations from typical research reports--choose a control group as much like yourself as possible; assume your own dialect is standard; encode all…

Experimental Programed Instruction of the anatomy of the maxillary division of the trigeminal nerve is being conducted by the Harvard Computer-Aided Instruction Laboratory in cooperation with Tufts University Dental School. Two nearly identical programs are presented, one (PF) using representational diagrams and the other (PD) a schematic diagram…

To compare the relative effectiveness of a film slide-audio tape and a printed brochure as a means of conveying information and influencing student attitudes relative to industrial arts teaching as a career choice, and to identify those concepts and factors which can most effectively be presented by each method, an experiment was conducted…

The objectives of the Tenaya School, a 6th, 7th and 8th grade school in the Merced City School District, California, are to teach Spanish in homogeneous classes to its Mexican American students (50%) and to enhance their self esteem by stressing the cultural and academic advantages of bilingualism. The qualifications of a special teacher needed to…

Designed as a 3-year pilot project, the Booker T. Washington High School Learning Laboratory emphasized the preparation of its disadvantaged Negro students for better job opportunities. Three consecutive experimental groups were to receive special training in language arts and mathematics, as well as special guidance. Three corresponding control…

To explore the efficacy of improving the dysarthria of cerebral palsy under conditions of aural stimulation, visual stimulation, and combined aural-visual stimulation, 22 subjects (aged 7.6 to 19.0 years) received intensive stimulation for word limitation for 22 consecutive school days. The 87 words of the Irwin Integrated Articulation Test were…

A total of 168 Negro and 296 white Medical Technicians participated in this study. A nine-scale performance rating form was developed and administered. Every technician was rated by at least two supervisors. A test of job knowledge was also given to all subjects. Among the correlations found were: (1) Negro workers received distinctly higher…

The report is an evaluation of those compensatory education programs established in Hartford by the State Act for Disadvantaged Children (SADC). The measured effects of compensatory education in Hartford and the extension of a modified Higher Horizons program to all poverty area schools are the topics of two introductory essays. The Hartford…

A project to reduce teacher-pupil ratios and to provide additional educational materials was a subsection of a Program to Strengthen Early Childhood Education in New York City Poverty Area Schools. The teacher-pupil ratio was reduced to the level of one to fifteen in the first grades and one to twenty in the second grades. Eight dollars was…

Language laboratory effectiveness in secondary schools and related research are discussed. Criteria for five elements determining the laboratory's effectiveness are described: (1) the teacher, (2) the teaching materials, (3) the testing and grading programs, (4) the student practice sessions, and (5) the equipment. Some general remarks are made…

The third of four quins intended to develop computational skills with non-negative rational numbers through applications to business and industry, this guidebook on minimum course content is designed for the student who has acquired basic computational skills with non-negative rational numbers. Topics include measurement and geometrical…