TAPED EXERCISES BASED ON LITERATURE CAN BE USED IN THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY OR, IN PART, IN THE CLASSROOM TO MAINTAIN AND ASSURE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS' FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN INTRODUCTORY LITERATURE COURSES. PHONETIC DRILL, PATTERN PRACTICE, WORD-BUILDING EXERCISES, AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PROMOTE COMPREHENSION AND FLUENCY,…

TO TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION IN TRAINING NURSES, THIS DEMONSTRATION PROJECT EVALUATED THREE EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS OF 15 STUDENTS AND FOUR CONTROL GROUPS OF 10 STUDENTS. IN ADDITION TO INCREASING TEACHING CAPACITY BY FIVE STUDENTS PER INSTRUCTOR, THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS WERE NOTED FROM SEVEN EVALUATIVE QUESTIONS POSED TO…

SURVEYS OF PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE INDICATED THAT INTENSIVE CYCLE SCHEDULING FOR SPEECH AND HEARING THERAPY MIGHT YIELD BETTER RESULTS THAN MORE TRADITIONAL METHODS. EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMS USING THIS NEW METHOD WERE ESTABLISHED IN FIVE SCHOOL SYSTEMS AS A FIELD TEST OF EFFICIENCY. THE 4 YEARS OF RESEARCH IN INTENSIVE CYCLE SCHEDULING IN THESE FIVE…

THE REINFORCING EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTINGENCIES, IN WHICH A VERBAL LEARNING TASK WAS PRESENTED, WERE TESTED. THE LEARNING TASK INVOLVED A SIMULATION OF THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE PUPIL APPROACHES BEGINNING READING THROUGH THE ACQUISITION OF A BASIC SIGHT VOCABULARY. THE CRITERION FOR MEASURING DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT WAS ESTABLISHED AS…

THIS VOLUME, PART OF A TWO-VOLUME SET, PROVIDES AUTOINSTRUCTION IN PHYSICS. THE MATERIAL COVERS UNITS ON (1) STATIC ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRICAL CHARGES, (2) COULOMB'S LAW, (3) DISTRIBUTION OF CHARGE AND FLOW OF CURRENT, (4) DIFFERENCE OF POTENTIAL, (5) BATTERIES AND CIRCUITS, (6) RESISTANCE AND RESISTORS, (7) POTENTIAL DIVIDER AND WHEATSTONE…

THIS VOLUME 2 OF A TWO-VOLUME SET PROVIDES AUTOINSTRUCTION IN PHYSICS. THE UNITS COVERED IN THIS VOLUME ARE (1) REFLECTION OF LIGHT, (2) PHOTOMETRY, (3) POLARIZATION, (4) REFRACTION OF LIGHT, (5) SNELL'S LAW, (6) LENSES, FOCUS, AND FOCAL POINTS, (7) IMAGE FORMATION, AND (8) ABERRATIONS, THE EYE, AND MAGNIFICATION. THE INTRODUCTION AND UNITS ON…

THE ERROR FACTORS WHICH OPERATE DURING THE DISCRIMINATION LEARNING OF NORMAL CHILDREN WERE STUDIED. THREE EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED TO COMPARE RESPONSE-SHIFT AND RESPONSE-PRESERVERATION TENDENCIES OF DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS. THE FIRST EXPERIMENT INCLUDED 4-, 6-, 8-, AND 10-YEAR-OLDS WHO WERE GIVEN REWARD AND NONREWARD PROBLEMS. THE SECOND EXPERIMENT…

IN FALL 1964, PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA'S GENERAL COLLEGE WERE ASSIGNED TO GROUPS FOR 2-DAY ORIENTATION SESSIONS, IN WHICH THEY WERE INTRODUCED TO GENERAL ASPECTS OF THE UNIVERSITY, COMPLETED A TEST BATTERY, PARTICIPATED IN A "COLLEGE MEETING", AND REGISTERED FOR CLASSES. AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP RECEIVED THE…

A token reinforcement program was used by the Piney Woods Research and Demonstration Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Children who were from economically deprived homes received tokens for positive behavior. The tokens were redeemable for recess privileges, ice cream, candy, and other such reinforcers. All tokens were spent on the day earned so…

An experimental program, the Residence Hall Ministry, incorporating religious activities into the Pennsylvania State University residence hall systems has expanded from pastoral and personal counseling into broad program activities. A case approach was instituted in conjunction with the college counseling division, illustrating the adaptation of…

This article argues that the failure of meaningful educational reform in Germany is largely a result of the weak performance of educational administrators, which is in turn a result of the absence of formal training for educational administrators. The author first reviews the present state of teacher education in Germany and notes that in 1977…

Costs and cost-related factors connected with providing on-line search services through the public library are examined. The examination was based on preliminary results from an on-going evaluation of an experimental program (DIALIB). In the DIALIB experiment Lockheed's DIALOG search service was available to the public through four public…

A cost analysis was made of on-line bibliographic searching in four public libraries in the San Francisco Bay Area using the Lockheed DIALOG system. The study involved monitoring the time that 35 individuals in the libraries spent processing some 411 search requests. The study identified a set of seven tasks that are performed for each request and…

Virginia Beach School System administrators and supervisors were personally interviewed about their reactions to the first year of the 45-15 plan where students attend school 45 days and break 15 days year round. Opinions were expressed about the increase and utilization of space, problems of maintaining proportional enrollments, rising time…

This pamphlet contains a summary of the scheme of assessment to be used in each of the experimental examinations devised as part of the 16+ examination research program. The committees of the School Council agreed to the publication of this material to encourage further discussion and to inform teachers about development in the experimental 16+…