Two one-semester English courses, English 50.1 (English Fundamentals), concentrating on sentence construction, and English 50.2 (Basic Writing Skills), concentrating on paragraph development, were devised at Cerritos College (California) in an attempt to improve the effectiveness of the old English 50 (Grammar and Composition), which had combined…

A research project is described which, using Gardner and Lambert's scales plus 10 other instruction-related items, sought: (1) to examine the stability of attitudes, as changes might occur from the beginning of a course to its end; (2) subsequently, to draw inferences as to the impact that a German language and/or culture course might have on…

There are many ways films, paintings, and photographs can be used in teaching freshman college composition courses. These materials illustrate such rhetorical principles as unity, use of detail, comparison, point of view, and metaphor. Similarly, popular culture such as advertisements, song lyrics, comics, newspapers, and magazines can illustrate…

The University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Department of Education joined forces to design and implement a course to prepare regular educators to work with handicapped children. The purposes of the course were to present a rationale and philosophy for integrating special needs children into mainstream settings and to offer a variety of…

The objective of the project was to investigate the utility of using an A/F37A-T4G T-37 flight simulator within the context of Air Force undergraduate pilot training. Twenty-one subjects, selected from three undergraduate pilot training classes, were given contact flight training in a TP4G/EPT simulator before going to T-37 aircraft for further…

The evaluation packet was prepared for use in the Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) Law Enforcement Training Course. A brief introduction explains the nature and use of the packet. Student evaluation materials consist of 150 test items, an assortment of student response cards for various course topics, and materials and procedures for conducting a…

This report presents a method of teaching first-year typewriting to a large group of students by using individualized instruction and multimedia techniques. The method presented was implemented at Napa College (California) during the fall quarter of the 1975-76 school year and was evaluated soon thereafter. In order to measure the success of the…

In order to develop a model human development course for the community college, attitudinal and factual information was obtained from 120 practitioners at colleges identified as having operational human development instruction programs. The questionnaire allowed the group to react to a series of 86 items representative of HD courses'…

Educational goals were presented to faculty involved in a group of eight team taught interdisciplinary (TTI) courses and were rated in terms of their importance to the courses as a group. The goals rated highest by the faculty were then presented to students enrolled in one of the TTI courses during the first and last weeks of the semester and…

Case Western Reserve University added training in MEDLINE analysis to its health sciences librarianship program in 1974, with help and some funding from the National Library of Medicine and with the cooperation of the Cleveland Health Sciences Library. MEDLINE was introduced at a 2-1/2 day intersession in January, and a MEDLINE module was included…

The establishment of an instructional system for primary pupils in the village schools of Alaska, a major developmental effort of the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory, is described. The objectives of the system, materials specifications, multiple-agency involvement, the production team, and problems the instructional system did not attack…

The experimental group contained 39 entering freshman nursing students who volunteered for "human relations training." The volunteer control group of 23 received human relations training through the lecture-discussion method, and the control group consisted of 41 non-volunteers who received no additional training in human relations. Four…

A college reading improvement program (CRIP) at the University of South Florida was examined to determine if it was of benefit to the participating students. Sixty-five freshmen took part in the 15-week program which used individually planned programs and different methods and materials. Pretesting had shown these 65 students to be significantly…

An experimental version of the one semester high school sociology course, "Inquiry in Sociology," was taught by 222 teachers throughout the United States in the spring of 1969. The purpose of this field test was to learn something about its relative success in rural, small-town, suburban, and central city schools, and with students of…

Specific objectives of this two-phase study included: (1) assessment of design of the behavioral objectives in all secondary level courses; (2) construction of criteria for evaluation of the design; (3) testing of objectives against the evaluative criteria and/or the specifications of the curriculum design; and (4) determination of the validity of…