A program sponsored by the American Council on Education and the New York State Board of regents recommended educational course credit for 400 courses offered by business, industry, unions, government agencies, professional and voluntary associations using guidelines established by the Council, Regents, and subject specilaists making site visits.…

The following seven American programs of Computer Assisted Instruction in Medicine are among 20 implemented at the University of Bonn: OPHTHA and FUNDUS (programs of the tutorial mode), CARDI (presents information via three media on the clinical alterations of Mitral and Aortic Stenosis as well as Mitral and Aortal Incompetence), CARDIOPULMONARY…

A group of 195 students enrolled in various communications courses at General Motors Institute filled out course evaluation forms which were then factor analyzed. Items involving an evaluation of teachers accounted for 69% of the variation. Items about course objectives, amount of work in relation to credit, textbooks, tests, and assignments were…

The relationship between student, course, and instructor characteristics and the ratings 283 hearing impaired students gave their instructors and courses at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf were examined. A previously field tested instrument containing 30 items divided into five subscales (practical gain, teacher personality,…

This study investigated alternative instructional delivery modes in two different short courses for professional engineers and scientists. Two math-oriented courses were taught to 130 participants. Each course was taught twice, once using the blackboard exclusively and once using extensive view graph projections (20 to 40 transparencies per…

This report addresses the initial phase of a multiphase effort to install Training Assistance Technology (TAT) capabilities on a submarine combat system trainer (SCST), and evaluate their effectiveness during a formal training course. This phase addresses the (1) selection of the trainer and course with which to conduct the evaluation, (2)…

A college human relations course is described and evaluated, and the change and rate of change in students' attitudes toward self and others is examined. One hundred and sixty students of different backgrounds who were enrolled in five sections of a human relations course answered questions concerning self-concept and attitudes toward various…

This paper describes and evaluates the implementation of a two-semester course in Century 21 shorthand by an experienced business education instructor. Student characteristics, course organization, learning activities, and difficulties encountered by both students and the instructor are described for each course. Detailed evaluations of the…

An experimental course in introductory organic chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin made use of the computer for drill and routine instruction. Lecturing time was reduced, and computer lessons were made part of the required coursework. This experimental situation was planned on the basis of results from previous experiments using…

A factor analysis was performed on 2,535 and 2,447 cases of the Instructional Improvement Questionnaire (IIQ) parts I and II, respectively. A correlation matrix for each part was calculated. Squared multiple correlations (SMC) for each item, using the other items as predictors, was placed in the main diagonal of the correlation matrix. The…

This document contains ideas on a variety of subjects directed at the physical educator. The work was compiled by Project IDEA (Identify, Distribute, Exchange for Action). Topics include the following: (a) scheduling, (b) curriculum, (c) games, (d) specific courses, (e) life sports, (f) fitness, (g) adaptive Physical education, (h) course methods,…

This report of a study of Canadian literature in Canada's secondary schools is divided into four major sections. The first section describes the collection, processing, and analysis of information for the study. A four page survey was mailed to the chairpersons of English departments in 20 percent of Canada's public and Catholic secondary schools.…

The training package evaluated in this report was developed to train school administrators and graduate students in educational administration in school program planning skills. The package consists of a coordinator handbook and units on setting goals, analyzing problems and deriving objectives. Each unit is composed of four-to-six modules that…

Many new educational alternatives are being introduced and new methods of assessing their validity have become necessary. One of these new methods, Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM), designed to monitor the effects of educational innovation, may also be used to stimulate change in the classroom. Traditional classroom testing frequently…

This is the report of a study designed to test a model for determining the effectiveness of sets of instructional materials which can be considered hierarchical and to derive a mathematical relationship by which such measures can be quantified. The model tested requires that the instructional materials be hierarchical in character. The…