In one project phase, assessments of cognitive levels in grades seven and eight on fractions and ratio concepts were made and compared to the corresponding cognitive demands of curriculum guide objectives, authorized textbooks, teacher presentations, and teacher-made tests. Considerable gaps were found between student cognitive level and…

This bulletin focuses on general education programs and also provides an update on four core curriculum projects. One viewpoint on general education is presented by Theodore D. Lockwood in an article entitled, "A Skeptical Look at the General Education Movement." The following general education programs of six colleges are described:…

This curriculum model serves as a process for interrelating elements, factors, and participants, and directing them toward the goals of the School of Education and the Wisconsin Administrative Code. It implies a specified and measurable outcome, in which evidence about effectiveness is continuously available, making the model adaptive or…

The volume contains 19 papers from the Fourth Annual Northern Virginia Conference on Gifted/Talented Education. Included are the following titles and authors: "A Statement on the National Commitment to Gifted Education" (R. Stafford); "Beyond Awareness into Practice" (F. Williams); "Fostering Independence and Creativity" (D. Treffinger); "Parents…

Experiential education as a teaching strategy differs from traditional classroom learning largely because the sequence of events in the process is reversed. In experiential education the learner first carrys out an action, sees the results, and from this basis generates concepts and principles. By first understanding the basic components of the…

In search of a method to increase the power of the educational experience for integrating student experience, many scholars have turned to the idea of interdisciplinarity. Apart from philosophical questions of values and epistemology there are operational problems of some significance. To meet them many advocates have proposed modifications in the…

Brief course descriptions and educational objectives of the art program in grades 9-12, Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, Maryland, are provided. Courses are elective and may be grouped into two sequences. Students with broad interests may elect Fundamentals of Art and continue with a series of studio art classes. Students interested in…

When 60 reading specialists were asked to evaluate the reading programs for the gifted in their schools, most of the 20 people who responded indicated that their school districts had programs for the gifted, but that these programs were just beginning. The respondents, most of whom taught remedial reading rather than reading for the gifted,…

The effect of changing patterns of postsecondary education for nursing and the subsequent development of open curricula and external degree programs in nursing are examined in these conference papers. The following papers were presented: "Pressures on Higher Education Are Changing Post-Secondary Education," by Robert H. Kroepsch;…

This report describes the problems related to control of or variety in curriculum in studies of teaching and the procedures used in one phase of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study to control to some extent the curriculum in reading and mathematics. The major focus of the document is the plan for further study of aspects of Experimental…

A TOTAL READING PROGRAM WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF ALL CHILDREN IN GRADES K-12 SHOULD BE BASED ON SOUND PHILOSOPHY AND RESEARCH. CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO READ AT A LEVEL AT WHICH THEY CAN FUNCTION SUCCESSFULLY. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, ADEQUATE MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT MUST BE PROVIDED TO MAINTAIN INDIVIDUAL RECORDS, AND PARENTS MUST BE CONSIDERED…

RESEARCH ON SEQUENCING OF INSTRUCTION CAN BE DIVIDED INTO NINE TYPES ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS ON WHICH THE EXPERIMENTS VARY. SITUATIONS IN WHICH THE LEARNER CONTROLS THE OBJECTIVES ARE DIFFICULT TO EVALUATE EXPLICITLY BECAUSE OF DIFFERING CONTENT LEARNED. AMONG EXPERIMENTER-CONTROLLED LEARNING SITUATIONS, THE WORK OF GAGNE AND HIS…

FOR THOSE COLLEGES FACED WITH A CROWDED CURRICULUM, INFLEXIBLE MAJOR REQUIREMENTS, AND POORLY-PREPARED FRENCH STUDENTS, A ONE SEMESTER COURSE IN OLD FRENCH IS SUGGESTED. SUCH A COURSE WOULD FIT INTO A FLEXIBLE AND CONTINUOUS SEQUENCE OF CENTURY OR GENRE COURSES (WITH THE HASTY SURVEY COURSE ELIMINATED). COURSE OBJECTIVES SHOULD INCLUDE (1)…

A description of the characteristics of an anonymous community was distributed to a panel of seven educationists who, on the basis of that information, outlined a needs-curriculum for a "proposed" community college. When the theoretical curriculum was compared with an actual curriculum designed by officials of a newly created community college…

This curriculum guide for levels III, IV, and V home economics teachers in New York State describes a process for planning and developing home economics courses. Emphasis is placed on the determination of student needs and the enrichment of learnings through participation in the Future Homemakers of America (FHA). The guide begins with a…