Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the design and implementation of music courseware that features a music search system that uses impression keywords. The paper applies the courseware to "Kansei" (sensibility) development for elementary and junior high school students. The objectives of this courseware are to cultivate…

Chinese brush calligraphy is a valuable civilization legacy and a high art of scholarship. It is still popular in Chinese banners, newspaper mastheads, university names, and celebration gifts. There are Web sites that try to help people enjoy and learn Chinese calligraphy. However, there lacks advanced services such as content-based retrieval or…

Relying on a series of four experiments, F. J. Boster, G. S. Meyer, A. J. Roberto, C. Inge, and R. E. Strom (2006) demonstrated that students exposed to videostreaming exhibited more improvement in examination performance than control students. In extension, this study tests the effect of using videostreaming with a very different topic…

This paper describes an experiment on the "linguistic" synthesis of a controller for a model industrial plant (a steam engine). Fuzzy logic is used to convert heuristic control rules stated by a human operator into an automatic control strategy. (Author)

Students attending Hoover Elementary School in Palo Alto, California enjoy their studies and classroom interaction. Article focuses on the policies behind the school's success. (RK)

Author suggests that in increasingly difficult times for higher education, innovators need to take care in formulating problems, in proposing ways of tackling them and in costing these proposals. (Editor)

The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test is marketed as an instrument suitable for use by persons without special training in testing. A total of forty children, ranging from retarded to gifted, were tested in counter-balanced order by eight elementary school teachers and by three school psychologists. (Editor)

The aim of these pages is to provide some perspective on Project Zero's recent work, updating earlier accounts which have appeared in the Journal of Aesthetic Education and elsewhere. (Author)

Describes the Alum Rock voucher experiment concluding that the voucher system represents a profound structural change. Parents and students have expressed great satisfaction; pupil achievement was probably down during the first year -- but up during the second. An income-outgo budgeting system has been developed which may be the most equitable…

In a previous paper (Hartley and Holt, 1971) the development of a three-minute reasoning test was described, and its validity and reliability assessed. In this paper three experiments are reported which look in greater detail at these aspects of the test in different situations. (Author)

By describing a fictional simulated environment project, this short story demonstrates how an educational innovation may have unexpected and unpleasant consequences. (JG)

Sequential analysis is discussed as an educational tool and experiments in educational uses of this method are described. (Text is in German.) (Author/AM)

FOUR ESSAYS, EACH BY A DIFFERENT AUTHOR, PRESENT PARTICULAR ASPECTS OF INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION. TOGETHER THESE ESSAYS PROVIDE AN INSIGHT INTO THE PURPOSES OF BOTH THOSE WHO SEEK INNOVATION AND THOSE WHO RESIST IT, A SUMMARY OF RECENT INNOVATIONS CURRENTLY IN OPERATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION, AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS OF…

An experiment was designed to investigate the effects of classroom observation on the attitudes of education majors toward selected aspects of teaching. Three major hypotheses were considered: (1) that observation of classes would result in a significant change in student attitudes toward selected aspects of teaching, (2) that student attitudes…

This document discusses the plans and the implementation of plans for the National Conference on Curricular and Instructional Innovation for Large Colleges and Universities, held at Michigan State University, November 6-11, 1966. The purposes of the conference were (1) to identify through discussion and demonstration promising curricular and…