For information on the Visual Arts Education Curriculum of which this is one course, see SO 007 721. In this course students study ceramic material, form, and decoration, historically and technically, and demonstrate competencies in preparing clay bodies and ceramic glazes. Course content is outlined in those areas. Special sections of the guide…

This resource guide is designed for use by teachers. Units are included on the energy crisis, environmental awareness, and decision making concerning shrinking energy resources. Both short-term and long-term problems and alternatives are discussed. Group and individual activities are suggested. Charts and graphs, suitable for making…

This annotated bibliography lists books on the roles and contributions of women in United States history for secondary level students and teachers. Most books cited date in the 1970's, with a few published in the 1960's. Books listed under the Books for Students section, which comprises the largest portion of the bibliography, may be used as…

Designed to assess consistency in teacher judgment of student essays and to assess conformity of teacher judgment with expert judgment, the Composition Rating Scale (CRS) requires the taker to rank-order five brief compositions. Requiring twenty minutes to complete, the scale can be used to evaluate the consistency of teacher judgments of…

Designed to measure the syntactic maturity of oral speech, the K-Ratio Index was devised for use in an investigation of the relationships between certain measures of syntactic maturity of oral languages and silent reading comprehension scores. Preparation for computing the ratio was accomplished by transcribing oral speech samples, excluding…

Designed to measure children's skill at recovering the deep structure relationships of sentences, the test contains twenty-five groups of three sentences and directs the children to circle the sentence which has a different meaning within each group. Means and standard deviations are listed by sex, and content validity is established for the test…

Designed to measure a person's knowledge of commonly used prefixes and root words, this test is composed of the twelve most frequently occurring prefixes and the twelve most frequently occurring root words derived from Latin. During the untimed test, students are directed to select the best meanings for prefixes and other word parts. Content…

Designed to provide a scale for assessing the quality of short expository essays, this material includes a group of six expository essays about 250-300 words in length arranged in order of quality. Each essay is followed by critical comments and a general discussion of the characteristics of essays at that level of quality. No validity or…

Designed to measure discrimination of prose excerpts, the Literary Discrimination Test (LDT) includes nine pairs of passages for the respondent to choose between, and one set of four passages to be rank-ordered. One of each pair of passages and one passage from the set of four were from published novels; the others were rewritten and inferior…

Designed to measure syntactic fluency or maturity in narrative writing, the Syntactic Maturity Test for Narrative Writing (SMTNW) is in two parts: (1) the test itself, a group of seventy-six kernel sentences making a coherent narrative, and (2) a means of syntactic analysis of the written samples that result when respondents rewrite the narrative,…

Designed to assess the reading comprehension ability of high school students, this measure contains items which were constructed to test the subskills found by R. T. Lennon, on the basis of factor analysis of thirty studies of comprehension tests, to be the four components of comprehension tests that may be measured reliably. These subskills are a…

This pamphlet provides suggestions for teachers for using creative dramatics in the classroom. The contents include: "Dr. Edwin Land Considers the Nature of Creativity"; "Six Basic Principles for Using Creative Dramatics with All Children," which discusses tuning in the senses, listening and recording, pantomime, rhythms and movement, presenting a…

Several instructional strategies have been developed and employed to affect student awareness of natural and social environmental settings. Three instructional strategy orientations have been structured for affecting student conceptual learning and values acquisition-clarification: affective, cognitive, and affective-cognitive. Outdoor education…

The importance and intricacy of the solid wastes disposal problem and the need to deal with it effectively and economically led to the state-of-the-art survey covered by this report. The material presented here was compiled to be used by those in government and private industry who must make or implement decisions concerning the processing of…

This volume contains a series of papers which develop multidisciplinary environmental education activities in seven subject matter areas: political science, health education, language or communication arts, art, science, mathematics, and social studies. Different formats are used for organizing the materials in each of the different subject areas.…