In a project to help all professional members of a junior high school staff improve their group processes, a series of training interventions were spaced throughout the school year to increase their organizational abilities. Two days of a six-day summer workshop were spent in structured game-like exercises designed to increase awareness of…

Project objectives included (1) establishing a body of knowledge concerning the role of the Hawthorne effect in experimental designs in educational research, (2) assessing the influence of the Hawthorne effect on educational experiments conducted under varying conditions of control, (3) identifying the major components comprising the effect, and…

Investments in Prevention is the report of a conference held in May, 1968, at Asilomar, California. The purposes of the conference were to identify and develop a framework for community action and education programs concerned with "young children at risk" and to develop alternative means for implementing comprehensive, prevention-oriented…

Computer time-sharing offers many interesting possibilities for use in teaching computer technology. To test the hypothesis that with proper hardware and software, students using time-sharing as a teaching machine could acquire proficiency in the fundamentals of programing more easily than by using standard batch-processing techniques, the…

Seventeen Portuguese students, between ages 9 and 15, were enrolled in the experimental special class at the Saint-Exupery Co-educational School (Gagny, France) during the 1972-73 academic year. Objectives of the experiment were to: (1) integrate the pupils more speedily into the educational system and, hence, into French society; and (2)…

A fourth quarterly report completes one year of the Educational Policy Research Center's (EPRC) analysis and assessment of the Education Satellite Communication demonstration. Activities and accomplishments during the period April 11, 1975-July 10, 1975 are listed and described. The report also includes cost data from the Appalachian Educational…

Second language instruction in the U.S. and Europe is in difficulties. The choice of a second language is artibrary and the motivation dubious. In Europe and now also in the U.S., attention has turned to the planned interlanguage Esperanto, which offers a maximally regularized structure, is considered "easy" by learners, and has the…

The document reviews the literature concerning the training effectiveness of flight simulators and describes an experiment in progress at the University of Illinois' Institute of Aviation which is an initial attempt to develop systematically the relationship between motion cue fidelity and resultant training effectiveness. The literature review…

Various lesson plans for museum instruction were tested on fifth grade children of fair and high intelligence in an attempt to improve upon the "accepted method" of teaching, which was thought to be better suited to the child of low intelligence than to his abler classmates. The lesson plans tested were: (1) the accepted method…

The Education Voucher Demonstration is a large-scale educational and social intervention that began in the Alum Rock Union Elementary School District, San Jose, California, in September 1972. First funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity, it is now sponsored by the National Institute of Education. This report describes the development of…

This final report of a study which developed a working corpus of spoken and written Portuguese from which syntactical studies could be conducted includes computer-processed data on which the findings and analysis are based. A data base, obtained by taping some 487 conversations between Brazil and the United States, serves as the corpus from which…

This report contains a description of the principal results and conclusions concerning the impact of educational performance contracting on student achievement in two school districts that subcontracted with its local educational association to test the use of incentives in regular classrooms. A related document is EA 004 441. (Author)

MODELS OF A SCHOOL COUNSELOR'S COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR IN THE APPRAISAL OF STUDENT INFORMATION AND OF HIS OVERT VERBAL RESPONSES IN THE "EDUCATIONAL PLANNING INTERVIEW" WERE MADE WITH COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND COMPUTER-CONTROLLED EQUIPMENT. THE VERBALIZATIONS OF THE COUNSELOR WHILE REVIEWING THE RECORDS OF 20 NINTH-GRADE STUDENTS PRIOR TO…

The relative effectiveness of alternative reward structures in strengthening group performance on a cooperative math task was investigated by operationalizing four reward structure treatments--one non-contingent pay treatment and three differential pay allocation treatments including two levels of inter-group competition and a group piece-rate pay…

Tells of an experiment introducing the Montessori system (which is described), stressing individualized approach, in a junior high school. Good results were obtained with good and poor students. It is concluded that the system could be relevant for beginning English classes in other types of schools. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)