This study attempted to construct an instrument--the Poetry Methods Rating Scale (PMRS)--for assessing 10th-grade teachers' opinions of poetry teaching methods and to validate it by comparing the scores on the PMRS to the teachers' attitudes, personality, performance, and success in the classroom. The PMRS (a 38-item, seven category…

Discussing Controversial Issues (DCI) is a skill training program designed for high school students and teachers with an overall objective of developing student and teacher skill in discussing controversial issues effectively. The course materials identify 13 moderator techniques which teachers practice, and 13 participant techniques which…

To gain statistical information as to the success of the Developmental Mathematics course (Math 01) at Danville Community College, data were collected on 77 students who completed the course between the winter quarter 1970-71 and the fall quarter 1971-72. The grades of this group in six subsequent mathematics courses were compared with those of…

The study investigates the nature of the relationship between student evaluations and faculty self-perceptions of instructional procedures. Various characteristics of students and faculty were treated as independent variables in an effort to interpret the degree to which they affected the discrepancies between the two rating groups. The…

This program document describes and evaluates an individualized independent instruction course in world civilizations, constructed on the following guidelines: 1) treatment of the student as an individual; 2) emphasis on student learning rather than teaching; 3) removal of grade pressures; 4) use of self-paced materials to achieve the first two…

Evaluations of one-hundred seventy-two courses taught at Millard Fillmore College (SUNY, Buffalo) during the 1971-72 academic year are presented. Students enrolled in these courses provided the ratings. A standard format is used to present item by item responses of the students to the 43 questions in the survey form for each course. The first six…

A semester elective program in English, established as a 2-year course of study for juniors and seniors at Tempe, Arizona, High School, attempts through flexible programming to stimulate teenage interest in English. Adapted from the Trenton, Michigan, study on Appropriate Placement for Excellence in English, the Tempe program is ungraded,…

A computer-assisted instruction (CAI) physics lesson on magnetism was supplemented with slides and film loops to provide a simulated encounter with simple magnetism experiments. Two groups of students took the CAI lesson, but one group viewed the simulated experiments, while the other group performed the actual laboratory experiments. Since…

This program utilized a series of films for in-service training of high school teachers in the Boston Metropolitan Area. The course was developed by the Lincoln-Filene Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs and was televised by WGBH-TV in Boston. The series of 28 broadcasts were divided as follows: the initial 45-minute program contained the…

A guideline to a two-stage outcome evaluation for individual courses within a total Learning Resources Center project is presented. Program and process variables are taken into consideration with emphasis on evaluating change in student behavior. The use of behavioral objectives is cited as the best means of determining the difference between…

Strategies suggested in this handbook provide ways for the intermediate grade teacher and the class to share in summarizing and analyzing educational developments associated with "Man: A Course of Study (MACOS)". The evaluation devices focus on pupils' perceptions and critical insights to develop their ability to explore questions about…

In the spring of 1976, 1,183 community services students were surveyed to obtain data to furnish a demographic description of the students, to serve as a basis for formulating future community services courses, and to serve as a basis for comparing yearly successes or failures of courses. Of those surveyed, 723 responded. Results of the survey…

Instruction in electrocardiogram interpretation was provided for students at the University of Calgary by distributing complete cardiograms to them at the beginning of the week, for nine weeks, followed by analysis by an instructor at the end of the week. Skill development, reinforcement, course evaluation, and student satisfaction are described.

A survey of college students regarding course evaluation forms reveals that students feel that while rating forms provide an effective method of evaluation, the results are ignored by many teachers. Students feel that teachers do not change their behavior as a result of weaknesses identified by the students. (JMF)

The results of an analysis of the achievement of objectives for the integrated science course for Scottish pupils in the first two years of secondary education are summarized separately for three groups of students classified by ability level. (CTM)