The rationale for a performanced- based instructional theory has arisen from significant advances during the past several years in instructional psychology. Four major areas of concern are: analysis of subject-matter content in terms of performance competencies, diagnosis of pre-instructional behavior, formulation of an instructional…

Article discusses several indicators of individualization in an elementary school program that can boost student learning motivation. (GB)

Describes the "Story Workshop" method of teaching creative writing in freshman English at Columbia College, Chicago. (RB)

A look at the essential steps important for an instructional system to operate effectively. (HB)

A look at a math course developed at Kingsborough (New York) Community College, in which an extraordinary number of innovations are integrated into a single instructional program. (Author/HB)

Article discusses how the West Indian Science Curriculum Innovation Project (WISCIP) and the University of the West Indies have cooperated to improve the quality of science education in Barbados. (Author)

A supermarket of ideas on merchandising curriculum materials to students. Suggestions, too, for creating exciting classroom environment inexpensively. (Author/JN)

Author introduces distinctions that occur between the inductive and deductive approaches to mathematical analysis thereby helping teachers, interested in innovative teaching methods, to understand more clearly the problems they are up against. (Author/RK)

A German movie project at Miami University, Miami, Florida. (RS)

Describes a program of German video tapes developed at the University of South Florida. For information on availability of video tape copies, contact the Office of Educational Resources, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. (RS)

Describes an experimental course in informal German conversation and dramatics at the University of California, Berkeley, California. (RS)

Dairymen learned to improve their milking techniques by utilizing a video tape recorder. (RK)

Seven case studies are used to illustrate the present advanced stage of development of instructional technology. These successes of the present are contrasted with the challenges of the future. Among these challenges is the need to create a demand for instruction that works by making effective instruction a more highly prized goal in education.…

A discussion of synthesized behavioral objectives (SYNOB), which is a record or form for communicating a variety of alternatives within a specific behavioral objective. (Author/HB)

Discusses the vicious circle of perpetuating traditional practices in the use of laboratory organisms. Makes a plea for biology teachers to use new organisms for new tasks, indigenous organisms rather than imported ones, living organisms rather than dead, and organisms to explicate principles rather than as sources of stultifying detail. (JR)