The study involving two low achieving first graders was designed to develop a remediation strategy offering increased opportunities for student responses through the rearrangement of skills and the teaching format. Four questions were addressed: What are the effects of the rearrangement of skills and the teaching format in the Ginn 720 Reading…

THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO DETERMINE HOW A PARTICULAR CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR WOULD APPEAR WHEN IT WAS VIEWED FROM FOUR EVALUATIVE FRAMEWORKS--DEVELOPMENTAL, MENTAL HEALTH, SUBSTANTIVE LEARNING, AND GROUP PROCESS. THE FIRST STAGE WAS DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOUR SCHEDULES FOR USE IN SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATION OF THE SAME SAMPLE OF CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR. IN…

A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS WAS CONDUCTED TO TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TELEVISED INSTRUCTION. THIS STUDY, THE FOURTH IN A SERIES, ILLUSTRATED THE DUAL USE OF STUDENT RESPONSE TO TEST PROGRAMING ADEQUACY AND TO ENHANCE LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS. PART 1 OF THE REPORT DISCUSSED TWO VARIABLES WHICH WERE INTRODUCED INTO EXPERIMENTAL VERSIONS OF LESSONS IN AN…

Freshmen entering Hofstra University in the Fall of 1966 were assigned on a random basis either to the regular Freshman Seminar course, with emphasis on discussion, or to the Modes of Inquiry course, with emphasis on ways of learning and the development of critical thinking. The students responded to a 30-item questionnaire which was designed to…

A general wave of student eruptions is taking place in many countries not only because of dissatisfaction with specific institutional practices, but because of a profound and deepening estrangement between academic youth and modern society. Among elements contributing to the growth of a new political movement are much larger student bodies and…

The major objectives of this study were to determine the reception of "In the News" by children within the target audience's ages, to determine if children within the target audience recognize the news program as a program, to determine if children learn from "In the News," and to compare children's learning from hard news…

The Experimenter Prestige Effect (EPE) concerns the phenomenon where research products will be more readily and less critically accepted if produced by scholars and/or institutions of great eminence, even though the objective quality of ideas, methodology, and findings are equal. This study tested the hypothesis that students give higher ratings…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are differences in perceptions of the university environment between married male students and single male students. Seventy-five upperclass male students were selected at random from the university's single on-campus, single off-campus, and married off-campus undergraduate population. All…

Student activists in the US attend the best colleges and universities, approximate the intellectual and ethical ideals of their professors, and have experienced the affluence and security provided by post-industrial society. Their current moralistic protest concentrates on the Vietnam war and racism in the US. They are most dissatisfied with…

The assumptions behind secondary school literature course tests--whether asking students to recall aspects of literary works, to relate literary works to each other, or to analyze unfamiliar literary works--are open to question. They fail to acknowledge some of the most important aspects of literature which, if properly taught, should provide a…

During the spring of 1972, Educational Testing Service joined with the California State Legislature's Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education to engage in a study of 116 California State institutions, of which 69 were public community colleges. One purpose was to study the goals of the institutions. Using the IGI--Institutional…

Research on literary response has had little to say about student response to authors' techniques in particular literary works. For this study, 165 senior high students of superior verbal ability were asked to read two short stories and to indicate what they thought made each story effective by selecting from an inventory comments which matched…

The basic concepts, aims and purposes of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) are reviewed and described by the Committee on Internal Security of the U.S. House of Representatives. An overall goal, as stated by SDS leadership, is the destruction of U.S. imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism. Toward this goal, the…