The monthly newsletter, based on a belief that there are solutions to existing social problems, is announced here on a one time basis. A major aim of the trendletter is to bridge the communication gap between those who are developing methods of dealing with the future and the layman. "Futures Conditional" is an exchange forum for new perceptions,…

The guide is designed to aid the teacher in helping the students to increase awareness and maturity in the decision making process when alternatives are encountered to which they must react. While many of the suggested activities are designed to foster a personal maturity, the emphasis is placed upon maturity in vocational and career decision…

The purpose of this study was to discover what teaching aids the eleventh and twelfth grade English teacher may expect to find if he depends upon the textbook and manual for questions and information about an assigned poem or if he turns to general high school journals and methods books for information and what critical information the English…

This curriculum guide provides the student with an understanding of the various methods of handling, paying, and recording payroll and sales taxes; fixed assets and their disposal; depreciation; losses due to bad debts; various types of notes; and accrued interest and expenses. Also listed are the 27 performance objectives, a course outline,…

This Quinmester course provides students with an understanding of the financial activities of partnerships, division of income or loss, fiscal period reports, and Federal income tax. Also contained in the document are a list of the performance objectives, a course content outline, the evaluative instruments used, and suggested resources for…

An annotated list cites bibliographies and catalogs which deal with American Indians. Commercial film catalogs, periodicals, and instructional materials lists are also included. All catalogs have a short descriptive sentence or paragraph. Films and other audiovisual materials designed for K-12 are available for rental. (WCM)

The purpose of this project was to test the effect of an intensive acquisition effort in one region of the nation (Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont); and develop selection criteria, indexing strategies, and abstract formats congruent with user needs. The staff of The Center for Vocational and Technical Education (CVTE)…

The instructional materials included in the document consist of 100 black and white ink drawings to be used as visual aids in the classroom. Designed primarily as overhead transparency masters, they may also be adapted for use as 35mm slides, in newsletters, student handouts, and as bulletin board materials. Most are ready to use; others…

Postings, accounts receivable and payable, and payroll entries made while using a bookkeeping machine make up the course content described in this pamphlet. The course seeks to prepare students to operate accounting machines as a prerequisite to the operation of more complex machines and adult, on-the-job training. Course guidelines, objectives,…

Negotiable instruments--various kinds of paper--are treated in this brief course outline with the objectives of teaching the student to: (1) understand and relate monetary legislation to his personal affairs, (2) understand four types of negotiable instruments, (3) demonstrate an understanding of transferring negotiable instruments in a practical…

Cost accounting principles and procedures provide students with sufficient background to apply cost accounting factors to service and manufacturing businesses. Overhead, materials, goods in process, and finished goods are emphasized. Students complete a practice set in the course, which has guidelines, performance objectives, learning activities…

Designed to measure the ability of children to identify the meanings of structurally ambiguous or unambiguous sentences of English, the test consists of forty lead sentences: ten with surface structure ambiguity, ten with underlying structure ambiguity, and twenty which are unambiguous. For each of the lead sentences three interpretative sentences…

Designed to measure the normal development of several of the elemental skills which children must acquire if they are to become skilled readers, this study involved the design and testing of batteries of tests to measure the various reading subskills identified. The battery consists of the following tests: visual, auditory, audiovisual,…

Designed to enable classroom teachers to screen an entire classroom of children simultaneously for visual processing skills, this test uses a four-page answer booklet and nine 35mm slides, and it includes activities for both near- and far-point visual skills. The test is used only for gross measurement, and a child who makes a low score would be…

Designed to test the effect upon comprehension of repatterning passages from a tenth grade social studies text by approximating the syntactic patterns found in a transformational analysis of the writing of the tenth grade subjects expected to read the text, this instrument was applied to 34 subjects who were asked to write 1,000 words of prose…