This report represents an attempt made by the field staff of a Summer Institute of Linguistics at the University of Papua New Guinea to improve the existing educational programs, which, by and large, are centrally produced in an expatriate-dominated context, and administered country-wide. Based on the assumption that language and social structure…

In the current trend toward improvement of instruction and accountability, the writing of objectives has become an almost universal requirement. Objectives, in fact, may be at a general, specific, or competency level, but it is impossible to begin to write any of these until a course configuration (format) has been developed. Construction of a…

An instructional design based on task analysis procedures was used to develop two experimental lessons to accelerate attainment of a subject-matter concept by fourth grade students. A variation of the Solomon Four-Group design was employed to determine the effects of the pretest. Performance of 118 randomly assigned subjects on a measure assessing…

Competency Based Education (CBE) is a system of instruction which holds that the learner has completed his preparation only when he effectively does the job he has been learning to do. Three major assumptions which form the basis for CBE are: (1) an educational program should prepare the student with competencies to effectively do the job he is…

A computer-based curricular package was developed to teach elementary school students to solve arithmetic word problems and to teach problem solving skills applicable to situations not involving word problems. An information processing model for solving word problems was used to sequence the problems. Pilot test results with five students…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of an instructional sequence on the higher-level questioning behavior of a group of secondary mathematics teachers. Major hypotheses were: (1) as a result of the instruction the teachers would show an increase in classroom use of the higher-level questions; (2) student participation in class…

This book, containing conference papers and a summary of activities, focuses on the contributions which current research in cognitive psychology can make to the solution of problems in instructional design. The first three parts of the book include sets of research contributions followed by discussions: part one deals with different strategies for…

The concept of attainment requirement and the development and assessment of attainment requirements for natural science majors is discussed. Structures involving several different kinds and levels of terminal and generic attainment are presented. The implications of such levels of attainment and performance standards for assessment strategies are…

The Experimental English Composition Program, developed at Oklahoma State University, responds to the university's need for practical composition courses and the English faculty's concern for humanistic courses. This program presents a variety of instructional options with more personalized learning manuals and a combination of individually paced…

The present research was designed primarily to investigate the type of instruction needed to help children learn difficult principles. A total of 159 fifth graders (each assigned to one of six experimental conditions) read lessons which dealt with principles from two content areas (mathematics and language arts). Lessons varied in the number of…

This paper suggests two steps in instructional deisgn for early childhood that can be derived from a recent major paper on instructional strategy taxonomy. These steps, together with the instructional design variables involved in each step, are reviewed relative to current research in child development and early education. The variables reviewed…

At a time when demands on medical education institutions are changing and expanding, instructional development provides a problem solving approach which identifies student needs, determines an appropriate instructional process for satisfying those needs, and defines an evaluation process to measure outcomes. This requires a statement of existing…

This paper illustrates the use of a behavioral analysis of completed curriculum materials as an extremely useful technique for identifying a gradual progression in task difficulty appropriate to the to-be-learned higher ordered behavior. Several learning resources from Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center's Individualized Science…

A historian who has developed autoinstructional tape/slide lectures in East Asian history survey courses describes the steps he has found essential in production, introduces some available production and equipment resources, and points out means to enhance the effectiveness of presentations. Descriptions of his slides and accompanying commentary…

The paper describes a curriculum development project at the Hobbema Reserves, Alberta, Canada, whose locus is conceived as situated at the interface of the dominant society and the minority, native Indian society. The project's 2 objectives are (1) to produce and develop instructional materials and plans for the local Reserves school and (2) to…