The purpose of Moraine Valley's newspaper course is to provide an instructional delivery system for a large audience of nonstudents in the district, utilizing a familiar education resource (newspaper). (Author)

Discussed different kinds of television viewing and how educational programs are affected by the limitations of television as presently conceived. (RK)

IN FOUR STUDIES TO DETERMINE THE POSSIBILITY OF INCREASING CREATIVE BEHAVIOR BY MEANS OF CLASSROOM EXERCISES, THE AUTHORS COMPARED TREATMENT AND CONTROL GROUPS WITH RESPECT TO GAINS IN SCORES ON THE MINNESOTA TEST OF CREATIVE THINKING. IN THE FIRST STUDY, STUDENTS IN A CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING CLASS MADE SIGNIFICANTLY GREATER GAINS THAN THE…

STUDIES WERE DESIGNED TO DETERMINE WHETHER CREATIVITY CAN BE MEASURED AND TAUGHT. THE INVESTIGATORS DEFINED CREATIVITY IN EXPERIMENTAL TERMS, BASED ON SCORES OBTAINED BY MEASURING FOUR FACTORS--FLUENCY, FLEXIBILITY, ORIGINALITY, AND ELABORATION. FLUENCY IS THE FACILITY WITH WHICH IDEAS CAN BE GENERATED, FLEXIBILITY IS THE NUMBER OF DIFFERENT…

TO DETERMINE WHETHER STUDENTS OF HIGH AND LOW ABILITY DIFFER IN CREATIVITY, STUDENTS IN GENERAL COLLEGE (GC) SPEECH AND LOGIC CLASSES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA WERE COMPARED WITH SPEECH AND LOGIC STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS (CLA). GC STUDENTS HAVE A MEAN IQ OF 105-110, AND AN AVERAGE HIGH SCHOOL RANK AT THE 25TH PERCENTILE WHILE…

QUESTIONNAIRES WERE SENT TO A 10 PERCENT SAMPLE OF INCONSISTENT VOTERS IN TWO OREGON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHO HAD NOT VOTED IN A PREVIOUS, UNSUCCESSFUL SCHOOL BUDGET ELECTION, BUT WHO HAD VOTED IN A SUBSEQUENT SUCCESSFUL ELECTION. DESPITE DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE DISTRICTS IN LEVEL OF SCHOOLING COMPLETED, OCCUPATION, INCOME, PERIOD…

The effects of task complexity and vicarious reward upon children's ability to learn a substantial educational task through modeling were investigated. After observing a models performance, all subjects (elementary school students) were offered direct reward for matching responses. Accuracy of imitative learning was inversely related to task…

Researchers have long been aware that "pretest sensitization" is a potential threat to the external validity of experimental studies. Only recently, however, has it been suggested that "posttest sensitization" might also limit the generalizability of results. This latter phenomenon would exist to the extent that the effects of…

Alum Rock School District, San Jose, California, is the only school district to participate in OEO's education voucher experiment. In this speech, the superintendent of that school district describes the district's experience with education vouchers. He describes the experiment design and discusses parental attitudes on the voucher experiment. (JF)

The basic purpose of the present study was to study the effectiveness of using trained peers to lead small process groups in freshman orientation. A sample of 253 freshman students from East Central State College in Ada, Oklahoma, were used for the experiment. The instrument used to determine whether perceptions of the college campus climate…

The relationships between the microteaching technique and experiential group meetings of student teachers are discussed. The author concludes that the linking of the two techniques might well prove of great value in the education of teachers. The journal is available from the Circulation Office, 325 9th St., San Francisco, California, 94103.…

Although experts in elementary education seem unable to devise wise and productive methods of student grouping, here is one experiment in grouping that is thought-provoking and may provide a more suitable classroom environment for developing harmony in student relationships. (Author/RK)

A FORTRAN 77 program is described that computes both the different response success-error patterns and their summary statistics for learning and forgetting in fixed trial experiments using a two-stage Markov model. (Author/GDC)

A complete package for Markov model-based fixed trial learning experiments contains four FORTRAN 77 programs. Two of the programs deliver likelihood and parameter estimates of one- and two-stage learning models, and two may be used for hypothesis testing of parameter differences between and within experimental conditions. (Author/GDC)