The author, who is critical of the general misuse of instructional television today, uses the closed-circuit system at the University of Hawaii's College of Education as an example of how the medium may be intelligently and imaginatively applied to the instructional process. (LS)

These 17 curriculum studies by faculty members of San Joaquin Delta Junior College were funded under Title III of The Higher Education Act of 1965. They were intended to help initiate new courses, improve existing ones, or plan for future ones. Each project report gave its objective(s), the general methods for its development and completion, the…

Project SEE (Specific Education of the Eye), a three-year old ESEA Title III funded program, is stated to be designed to train kindergarten and Grade 1 children in perceptual motor skills by developing visual perception through a series of sequenced visual exercises which the child analyzes, elucidates on, relates to, and replicates. The…

The goal of this panel was to explore the functions and roles of all personnel involved in new instructional systems which bring to bear advances in learning research and instructional technology. Five "approaches" for achieving this goal arose out of a discussion of the many problems involved in the design and implementation of new instructional…

The intent of this study was to learn how and why schools adopted the materials of the project. An open-ended questionnaire was used to obtain answers on issues of awareness, interest, evaluation, trial and adoption procedures, source of funds for purchasing the materials, and school community characteristics. Results were: 1) awareness level…

The product of two summer institutes to prepare teachers and administrators for school integration, this report contains a resource manual on "The Negro in American History," developed with the help of Dr. John Hope Franklin. For full abstract of institute proceedings, see UD 009 479. For other resource manuals, see UD 009 480, UD 009…

With a new accepting opinion toward religious studies, already exemplified by courses and departments in secondary schools, universities, and state colleges, a need exists for the expansion of religious studies in the junior colleges. Teaching religion, especially the history and study of comparative religions, is considered legal as long as…

This document contains progress reports on some of the ongoing activities of the Regional Educational Laboratories, whose primary objective is to create and demonstrate a variety of tested alternatives to existing educational practice. In each instance the address and region served are given, together with information on the governing board and…

The report describes the development of a package of training materials to enable instructional product developers to prepare first-draft materials. Five instructional techniques, derived from laboratory research and selected through a survey of eminent instructional psychologists, comprised the substance of the materials. The techniques were…

This research deals with optimizing the instructional process. The approach adopted was to limit consideration to simple learning tasks for which adequate mathematical models could be developed. Optimal or suitable suboptimal instructional strategies were developed for the models. The basic idea was to solve for strategies that either maximize the…

This book reviews the present high school curriculum and indicates the trends for the future. Seven professors were asked to assess the present situation and trends in their respective fields. The fields of study include English, visual education, science, foreign language, mathematics, social studies and teacher education. Major points in the…

Operating in a pilot region, Project Communicate established a comprehensive educational information system to support the adoption of innovative instructional practices in classrooms. It provided field consultants, individualized information service and information processing units in the state education agency (SEA). It provided for two major…

New York City's Experimental Elementary Programs are examined, with particular focus on why the funds allocated went for "business as usual." (RC)

Discusses a four-phase development model which was deliberately constructed to eliminate the boxes and arrows commonly used to illustrate how development works. A well organized development system would be too complex to diagram, and if it were diagrammed, no one could follow it. (Author/JEG)

Questions are posed concerning the "back to basics" movement and rural schools. (KR)