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Peer reviewedBarlow, R. M. – Journal of Higher Education, 1974
Describes an experiment in which the learning contract method was used in a philosophical ethics course and assesses the learning contract method as compared to the discussion method. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Contracts, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Experiments
Download full textHummel, Thomas J.; Johnston, Charles B. – 1977
This research investigates stochastic approximation procedures of the Robbins-Monro type. Following a brief introduction to sequential experimentation, attention is focused on formal methods for selecting successive values of a single independent variable. Empirical results obtained through computer simulation are used to compare several formal…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Educational Experiments, Formative Evaluation, Measurement Techniques
Cash, Phyllis; And Others – Improving College and University Teaching, 1975
An experiment that proved worthwhile at Lehman College is reported, in which student teams learned how and produced research papers, a requirement in half the courses on the campus. (Editor/PG)
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Improvement, English Instruction, Higher Education
Stephenson, Donald J. – J Ind Teacher Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Educational Experiments, Industrial Arts, Junior High School Students
Philips, Herbert E. – 1981
Innovation is difficult to define because a practice which is innovative on one campus may not be innovative elsewhere. Nevertheless, a possible definition might be "a practice which is worthy of emulation and has not yet been put into use by a significant number of colleges." Administrators should seek instructional innovation for several…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Colleges, Educational Experiments, Educational Innovation
CRAWFORD, THOMAS JAMES – 1960
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO COMPARE TWO TEACHING METHODS FOR DEVELOPING PRODUCTION TYPEWRITING ABILITY. THE TRADITIONAL, SPEED-EMPHASIS METHOD AND THE EXPERIMENTAL, PRODUCTION-EMPHASIS METHOD, WERE USED DURING 50-MINUTE PERIODS FOR 61 SESSIONS EACH SEMESTER WITH STUDENTS ENROLLED IN INTERMEDIATE TYPEWRITING AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY DURING…
Descriptors: Business Education, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Doctoral Dissertations
BERTOLAET, FREDERICK – 1966
THE MANY ACTIVITIES RESULTING FROM THE RECENT EMPHASIS UPON IMPROVING EDUCATION SHOULD CONCERN THE MAJOR PROBLEMS, RESEARCH TOPICS, AND PRIORITIES IDENTIFIED THROUGH A SUGGESTED SYSTEM OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BOOKKEEPING IN WHICH RESULTS ARE REVIEWED BY APPROPRIATE STAFF AND RESOURCE PERSONNEL FROM BUSINESS, INDUSTRY, COLLEGES, AND UNIVERSITIES.…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Experiments, Educational Research, Program Evaluation
Byrd, F. Ross; Christensen, Barbara A. – 1968
The purpose of the study was to explore the extent to which a prototype multi-media self-instructional system comprised of 48 lessons can be used to help grade 11 and 12 students acquire defined levels of Gregg shorthand capabilities. Criteria for measuring student competencies and performance objectives at interim points and at the completion of…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Educational Experiments, Educational Objectives, Grade 11
Minneapolis Special School District 1, Minn. – 1967
This report of the Teacher Aide Program in the Minneapolis, Minn., Public Schools, funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is divided into four sections. The first section is "An Overview of the Evaluation of the Teacher Aide Program, Academic Year, 1966-67." The next two sections summarize questionnaire…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Federal Programs, Job Analysis, Kindergarten Children
Holec, H. – 1971
This article addresses the question, "Does the introduction of a language laboratory improve the functioning of a given teaching method?" Four experiments with the language laboratory are described and analyzed: the Keating and Lorge experiments in New York, the Jalling experiment in Sweden, and the Freedman experiment in Great Britain. These…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Media, Educational Technology, Instructional Improvement
McMurray, Nancy E.; And Others – 1975
An instructional design based on task analysis procedures was used to develop two experimental lessons to accelerate attainment of a subject-matter concept by fourth grade students. A variation of the Solomon Four-Group design was employed to determine the effects of the pretest. Performance of 118 randomly assigned subjects on a measure assessing…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Educational Experiments, Elementary Education, Grade 4
Girard, Jacques D. – 1972
An experiment is reported involving the teaching of the agreement of the past participle without an auxiliary verb, with "avoir" and with "etre," patterned after the studies of S. Roller in 1952-53 in this area. The initial experimentation is updated and involves the use of a Skinnerian model of programed instruction. The objectives, operational…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, French, Language Instruction, Language Research
Kanun, Clara; Reinertsen, David – 1970
The evaluation of this three-quarter experimental sequence of courses includes three phases: (1) the use of non-participant observation of the lectures; (2) a series of questionnaires periodically administered to class participants; and (3) a projected survey of class participants to assess the influence and consequences of the course experience.…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction
Lewis, Caleb A. – 1974
Courses By Newspaper is a national program that offers college-level instruction through the newspapers. The courses have as a target audience the adult learner who has never attended college, the college graduate, and the college dropout. The newspaper lessons are distributed to participating newspapers by the Copley News Service. The newspapers…
Descriptors: Adults, Continuation Education, Course Objectives, Courses
Light, Judy A.; Lindvall, C. M. – 1974
The objective of this study was to adapt the ideas of "strong inference" in developing a design procedure which can be used in the evaluation of an instructional system in such a way as to identify and correct specific weaknesses within a system. This method allows the evaluator to consider many hypotheses as possible causes of system…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
