The present research was designed primarily to investigate the type of instruction needed to help children learn difficult principles. A total of 159 fifth graders (each assigned to one of six experimental conditions) read lessons which dealt with principles from two content areas (mathematics and language arts). Lessons varied in the number of…

This paper suggests two steps in instructional deisgn for early childhood that can be derived from a recent major paper on instructional strategy taxonomy. These steps, together with the instructional design variables involved in each step, are reviewed relative to current research in child development and early education. The variables reviewed…

At a time when demands on medical education institutions are changing and expanding, instructional development provides a problem solving approach which identifies student needs, determines an appropriate instructional process for satisfying those needs, and defines an evaluation process to measure outcomes. This requires a statement of existing…

This paper illustrates the use of a behavioral analysis of completed curriculum materials as an extremely useful technique for identifying a gradual progression in task difficulty appropriate to the to-be-learned higher ordered behavior. Several learning resources from Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center's Individualized Science…

A historian who has developed autoinstructional tape/slide lectures in East Asian history survey courses describes the steps he has found essential in production, introduces some available production and equipment resources, and points out means to enhance the effectiveness of presentations. Descriptions of his slides and accompanying commentary…

The paper describes a curriculum development project at the Hobbema Reserves, Alberta, Canada, whose locus is conceived as situated at the interface of the dominant society and the minority, native Indian society. The project's 2 objectives are (1) to produce and develop instructional materials and plans for the local Reserves school and (2) to…

A rationale for using technology in the education of the handicapped is presented in the monograph and specific areas for developing this use in the future are proposed. The monograph begins with a discussion of instruction: how it has been viewed, how it is viewed today, and how it should be conceptualized to accomodate handicapped learners in…

This investigation was designed to ascertain whether students could transfer concepts related to specific rules of conditional logic to two designated areas. Specifically, the first type of transfer investigated was concerned with the ability of students to judge verbal simple deductive arguments written with suggestive content after instruction…

The purpose of the study was to investigate the magnitude of individual differences in time-to-criterion and the stability of these differences. Time-to-criterion was defined in two ways: the amount of elapsed time required to attain the criterion level and the amount of on-task time required to attain the criterion level. Ninety students were…

There are limitations inherent in a competency-based approach to counselor education, beginning with the assumption that it is impossible to specify all the competencies that a counselor needs or should have for any given setting. It follows from these assumptions that the designing of instruction cannot deal operationally with more than a limited…

These guidelines to planning a drug abuse education workshop for teachers were developed in the course of a one year project. The booklet begins with brief concepts of philosophies of drug abuse education. The second part of the booklet is concerned with objectives of inservice training for drug abuse education. A discussion of an orientation…

This issue of the "Review of Educational Research" attempts to cover the larger issues and to organize around some of the problem lines of instructional materials in educational media and technology. In its four chapters, each with a different author, the research review encompasses five broad areas: the design and selection of media, utilization…

An introduction to instructional strategies is offered. The author uses the term to refer to prescriptive rules for designing instructional events which create the learning experiences for the mastery of behavioral objectives. The intention is to familiarize the reader with properties of behavior to which instructional events must be responsive…

This document investigates doctoral study as an educational experience. Emphasis is placed on the instrument of instruction, designs for scholarly socialization, patterns of learning, and the educational implications of graduate study. (MJM)

A study was made using behavioral-science knowledge and educational technology to reduce the problem of lost and damaged freight at the St. Johnsbury Trucking Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This case study utilized the concept of force field analysis. The concept involved unfreezing a specific set of circumstances in the organization, moving…