Bilingual education needs an instructional design which considers totally its special nature and encompasses a plan for implementing a sound integral education program through a sequential and articulated curriculum supported by relevant instructional materials. A field-based project consisting of experimental and control schools for the design's…

Health educators must learn what specific behaviors sustain health and prevent illness, and how they can be established and maintained among consumers. (JD)

Examines criteria useful in deciding which instructional strategy is optimally appropriate for a given training program. Topics include instructional strategy and training design, curriculum-oriented criteria, organization need and environment, behavioral goals, and nature of the learner, objectives, and curriculum. (TA)

Presents instructional strategies for developing recruitment, instruction, curriculum, and placement in organizational communication courses. (RL)

Focuses on the first of three stages of the path evaluation procedure for instructional software, performing the preliminary evaluation. The three main steps involved in preliminary evaluation are (1) a program is chosen for evaluation; (2) information is exchanged with the faculty developer; and (3) the instructional designer reviews the software…

Discusses the importance of identifying the audience and determining specific objectives when designing printed instructional materials that will communicate effectively and provides detailed guidelines for dealing with such design factors as content, writing style, typography, illustrations, and page organization. (MBR)

This discussion of the use of word processing for instruction in developmental writing classes focuses on a study at York College that used IBM PCs and Bank Street Writer software. Problems encountered, including evaluation, assessment, and revising the concept of writing processes, are described. (Author/LRW)

The author outlines the history of instructional design for industrial training. He describes the Performance-Based Instructional Design system, with seven key components: (1) program description, (2) content analysis, (3) content selection, (4) content sequencing, (5) lesson structuring, (6) lesson delivery formatting, and (7) evaluation…

Discusses strategic teaching, a process for organizing and representing subject content, for helping students think about their own learning processes, for organizing skills instruction, and for managing classroom instruction. Provides an example of strategic instructional planning and a graphic that shows step-by-step procedures for the planning…

Discusses whether techniques found useful in text design can be transposed to the display of computer-assisted learning (CAL) materials. Highlights include differences in interaction between books and computers; problems in learning from books; text displays; computer displays; and possible future developments. (Author/LRW)

Discusses a method to motivate low level students in which a reading specialist attended class regularly as a "student." By questioning the teacher, comparing notes with students, and acting as a role model, the reading specialist helped these students improve their grades, their class behavior, and increase their self-esteem. (GEA)

Presents a list of recommended practices for designing computer-based instruction courseware based on principles derived from learning research. Research-based principles and the corresponding design practices are outlined for the areas of stimulus design, learner responses, feedback, and lesson control. (6 references) (CLB)

Discusses benefits of keyboarding instruction for elementary school students, emphasizing the integration of keyboarding with language arts instruction. Traditional typing and computer-assisted instruction are discussed, six software packages for adapting keyboarding instruction to the classroom are reviewed, and suggestions for software selection…

Claims that teachers of elementary students in the U.S. and the U.K. are often concerned with teaching the "basic skills" of reading at the expense of developing information skills: locating information, learning from it and using it. Suggests approaches for teaching these skills.(NH)

This project designed to teach library and thinking skills to grade 7 students emphasized the importance of metacognition. Students were asked to choose a research topic and to prepare and evaluate daily research strategies. Allotment of time for planning and reflecting on strategies was considered crucial to the project. (MES)