ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL CHANGES IN SOCIETY AT LARGE, AS WELL AS DEVELOPMENTS IN EDUCATIONAL IDEOLOGIES AND METHODS HAVE CREATED THE NEED FOR NEW UNIVERSITY COURSES IN THE FIELD OF PEDAGOGY. TO HELP MEET THIS NEED, A ONE-YEAR COURSE ON EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, WILL BE INTRODUCED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG, BEGINNING SPRING SEMESTER…

Based on the theses that all media have usefulness, that effectiveness is greatest when media selection is grounded on a systematic analysis of instructional objectives, and that educational specialists have a rightful function in the selection, packaging, and utilization of instructional sequences in all media, an analytical procedure was…

This paper suggests some of the implications television producers can find in emerging currents of theoretical research. The effectiveness of television over a wide range of tasks has led in some cases to too much ETV being broadcast and has covered up the fact that television can make a unique contribution to certain tasks and should be used…

Ecological research methodology can assist the educational technologist in both his practical decision making responsibilities and in his more formal pursuit of theoretical understandings. Critics of traditional methodologies maintain that the validity of educational inquiry, as well as the generation and verification of educational theories, can…

The goal of the present project was to identify the types of knowledge necessary and useful for competent troubleshooting/debugging and to examine how new approaches to formal instruction might influence the attainment of competence by students. The research focused on the role of general strategies in troubleshooting/debugging, and how they might…

The role of information-processing task analysis in linking psychological theory to instructional practice is illustrated with reference to reading. Two detailed information-processing models of decoding skills are compared to show how psychological considerations suggest the superiority of one model over the other as a basis for instruction.…

This study of the self-directed, interpretive, and creative reading elements of the Wisconsin Design for Reading Skill Development was conducted to gather descriptive data about implementation strategies being developed and practiced by field test teachers and to gather evaluative information about the usability of various management and…

The first step in establishing an educational system is to assess the desired outcomes of the task and to state them as observable behaviors. The second step is to determine the optimal learning environment for the achievement of those goals. The final step is to set up a system of evaluating the quality of the instruction and the performance of…

This memorandum reports on the third phase, the design, of a four-phase project to design project management training materials for local educational agencies. The first section of the memorandum explains some considerations regarding management education and the organization of the report. Section 2 presents the design specifications for the…

Emphasis is placed on the experimental analysis of behavior in this spelling program of computer-assisted instruction (CAI). The spelling program is of special interest because it is based on a good behavioral analysis of the nature of the spelling task, and it offers a chance to review computer instrumentation. Results of the review indicates the…

The Office of Learning Resources at the State University of New York at Oswego was created to increase the effectiveness and the efficiency of teaching and learning by providing a wide variety of options to traditional classroom activities. The office encourages the development of teaching styles that best meet the needs of individual students by…

This study attempted to determine if 3-year-old low socioeconomic status children possessed a generalizable concept of circle/round, and examined two methods of teaching to those children who did not already possess it. Twenty 3-year-old children were first presented with training sets consisting of 12 pairs of stimuli: six pairs of objects…

Based on the final two years' developmental effort of the Colorado Individualized Instruction Consortium Project (CIICP), a series of recommendations are made dealing with future curriculum development. Three main goals of CIICP are delineated: develop Learning Activity Packets (LAP), design multimedia for each LAP training instructor to use in…

A Word Problem Program was set up to teach elementary school students how to solve arithmetic word problems and to teach some problem solving skills applicable to nonword problems. All instruction is accomplished through a computer program. Goals of the program are described along with three basic instructional decisions and the reasons for them,…

The usage of the terms "diagnosis" and "prescription" in the fields of medicine and electronic troubleshooting is reviewed, and a common structure for diagnosis-prescription is proposed. The diagnosis-prescription decision sequence is outlined. Prescription-without-diagnosis and diagnosis-without-prescription in education is discussed. The…