Although there is widespread agreement on the importance of ethics instruction in business education, there is not agreement on the best approach or timing of instruction. This article uses J. O. Prochaska and DiClemente's transtheoretical model of change as the basis for a developmental model of student readiness for learning about ethics. By…

Authors use combinatorical analysis to prove some interesting facts about the Fibonacci sequence.

This monograph seeks to inform faculty, staff, administrators, and students about the nature of and structure in doctoral programs that lead to doctoral student development. It is accomplished through succeeding chapters, focusing first on an overview of existing student development theory and then on the structure of doctoral education and its…

Given reflection symmetry, the moment generating function symmetry is necessary and sufficient for the random walk model to be equivalent to a sequential probability ratio test. For a related article, see TM 501 715. (Author/RC)

INDIVIDUALIZED PRESCRIBED INSTRUCTION (IPI), DESIGNED FOR GRADES 1-6, IS A SEQUENTIAL MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM IN WHICH EACH OBJECTIVE IS A DESCRIPTION OF SOMETHING A STUDENT SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO. EACH OBJECTIVE IS A PREREQUISITE TO THE LEARNING OF A LATER OBJECTIVE. STUDENTS ARE TESTED FOR MASTERY OF OBJECTIVES AND THEN PLACED SO THAT THEY ARE…

The author suggests that the emerging fields of social practice (such as recreation, social work, and adult education) must all go through a sequential pattern of research needs, first superficially, and then in ever deeper cycles. The six phases of these research needs are: definition of the field (survey and descriptive studies, census studies,…

PERT--Program Evaluation and Review Technique--is introduced in this programed text to enable the reader to work at his own pace to gain a mastery of the basic rules of PERT and their application. Some of the operations the reader will be able to perform upon completion of the program include: applying PERT techniques to projects of any type or…

The 11 progressive steps outlined in this document incorporate tactile, auditory, and visual exercises which take approximately two months to complete. These steps range from the simple task of having the children arrange three magazine pictures in sequential order and explain the arrangement, through reading a story segment to the children who…

The meaning of objectives in geographic education and the need to structure objectives in some hierarchical manner are presented in this paper. Discussion in past years centered on the teaching of general objectives in geography classes. During the last twenty years, however, geography instructors realized that objectives may be at various levels…

A scope and sequence chart is presented for elementary and secondary education concerning aging and death, as well as (1) suggestions for integrating gerontology issues into commonly taught subjects, (2) selected issues for gerontology studies, and (3) resources for gerontology curriculum development. (MJB)

Describes an approach to teaching composition skills based on a sequence of activities designed for different grade levels. (DD)

The results of this study indicate that order of practice does have a significant effect on skill acquisition with sequential ordering (practice of a successive nature) being the most efficient method for improving bilateral skill acquisition. (MB)

This article provides unbiased estimates of the proportion of items in an item domain that an examinee would answer correctly if every item were attempted, when a closed sequential testing procedure is used. (Author)