Description of the second phase of the project, which has as basic objectives the determination of the feasibility of independent foreign language study in public schools and also an examination of the advantages, disadvantages, potentialities, and limitations of this mode of self-instruction, surveys the procedures 30 eighth-grade students…

This is a report on the North Carolina Advancement School's eight-week summer session for sixth- and seventh-grade boys. The summer session for underachievers was limited to a residential program. The instructional program involved studying humanities, mathematics; science, and the arts with close guidance by a counselor. The results from the…

With the idea of providing a valid conditioning and testing situation by which the student's self-confidence and effectiveness in communicating in a foreign language could be improved, this study evaluates a pilot project designed to identify and measure the effects of having a native speaker in the classroom for a period of time as opposed to a…

This monograph is the culmination of a practicum in educational administration by graduate students of Ohio State University for the academic year 1968-1969. It focuses on various aspects of interagency and interschool district cooperation within the metropolitan setting. After a review of relevant literature in these two areas, a survey of…

This report summarizes the four major activities of the political learning project carried out at the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning. These four activities are (1) a survey of recent empirical work of the content, sequence, and causes of political concept and attitude development, (2) a pilot experiment with…

This paper proposes an educational study to determine the best way to educate Mexican American children. It suggests an experiment comparing the traditional approach, the English as a second language approach, and a bilingual-affective approach as described by the authors. The detail of the proposed program are presented, and the three language…

The Information Retrieval Television (IRTV) system was a unique experimental media program initiated in several Ottawa, Canada schools in the fall of 1968. The program allowed teachers to select televised audiovisual programs for their classes at any time. This arrangement freed them from having to adapt to broadcast schedules or to the rigidities…

This paper, presented in 1971 at the National Council for Social Studies Conference in Denver, advocates structuring elementary and secondary social studies programs around social intelligence in the Deweyan sense rather than building them around ideology. Too often programs espousing an ideology are touted as the best approach toward solving…

This six-author study highlights the most significant attributes of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) and explains the techniques of authoring CAI lessons in political science. Fourth in a series of Instructional Resource Monographs, the volume has the objective to inform political science teachers and students about what CAI has to offer on a…

This instructional unit offers high-school students experiences in learning about how human beings communicate and fail to communicate. It is based on the assumption that personal and cultural differences create differing "perceptual sets." Seventeen learning activities are grouped into four units: (1) Communication Processes and "Meaning-Making,"…

The Proceedings of the 1975 Commonwealth Educational Broadcasting Conference begin with an introduction and recommendations for broadcasting in the Australian commonwealth. Summaries of conference deliberations in seven topic areas are given. Speeches at the opening ceremonies are followed by lead papers in the following seven topic areas: (1)…

Twelve years after beginning an experimental individualized education program, 22 participants and 19 classmate nonparticipants were interviewed. Participants were more negative about their college experiences but were indistinguishable from nonparticipants on comparisons of postgraduate education, occupational history, family and residential…

In this study, the authors compared differences in sexual risk attitudes and intentions for three groups of youth (experimental program, n = 90; attention control, n = 80; and nonparticipant control, n = 634) aged 12-14 years. Two student groups participated with their parents in programs focused on strengthening family interaction and prevention…

An evaluation of twenty-five national pilot experimental projects in permanent education conducted in European countries was done to provide a foundation for theoretical work, to update prior studies, and to create an awareness of the problems of permanent education. Three- to five-day evaluation visits were made to each of the project sites by a…

PERSONS INVOLVED IN STATE AND LOCAL EFFORTS DIRECTED TOWARD CURRICULUM CHANGE IN ENGLISH WERE INVITED BY THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH, IN 1966, TO REPORT THEIR PROGRESS. THIS INVENTORY OF 172 PROJECTS IN 35 STATES PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF EACH PROJECT, INDICATING THE INVESTIGATORS, GOALS, METHODS, AND AVAILABILITY OF COPIES OF REPORTS.…