Despite lack of money and time, schools in the eighties are going to make changes. For this reason, educators are being forced to look again at the lessons of the innovations of the seventies. This paper discusses research done on those innovations, both the ones that succeeded and the ones that failed. A discussion of costs is followed by a…

SOME PROCEDURES FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF AN INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAM AT THE THIRD-GRADE LEVEL ARE OUTLINED. PLANS FOR PRELIMINARY TESTING, FOR ESTABLISHING THE READING ENVIRONMENT, FOR ASSISTING IN THE CHOICE OF TEACHING MATERIALS, AND FOR RECORDING PUPIL PERFORMANCE ARE PRESENTED. SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES SUGGESTED TO FOLLOW READING A BOOK…

WHILE IT IS WIDELY RECOGNIZED THAT TEST ANXIETY INTERFERES WITH COGNITIVE PROCESSES, THE RESEARCH FROM WHICH THIS CONCLUSION IS DRAWN TYPICALLY HAS NOT SHOWN WHICH COGNITIVE PROCESSES ARE INTERFERED WITH OR WHAT PRACTICAL STEPS COULD BE TAKEN TO PREVENT SUCH INTERFERENCE. THE REASONS FOR THIS LACK OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE ARE DISCUSSED. IT IS SHOWN…

Lacking a format appropriate for the medium and lacking a breakthrough in learning theory commensurate with its technological advances, educational television is failing to perform effectively in our society's educational system, according to the author. Comparisons to the methods and results of commercial television form the basis of his analysis…

Today's educators sometimes make unthinking hasty decisions based on a "Gallup Poll" mentality that holds that whatever the majority of the people want should be implemented. Educators, bowing to public pressure, are sometimes too quick to jump on any bandwagon. One such bandwagon is the current back to basics movement. Insofar as back…

The six descriptive position papers were prepared after selection for the Multi-National Workshop on Basic and Functional Education for Adults. Those selected are significant innovative programs of adult education in other countries that may have direct applicability to improving program practices in various parts of the world. The six programs…

This manual is designed to describe and disseminate information about innovative New Jersey educational programs that have been validated by the standards and guidelines of the United States Office of Education as successful, cost effective, and exportable. Chapter 1 contains an overview of the development process for educational programs and…

This paper argues that measuring the degree of implementation is important if causative statements about effects of an innovation are to be made. It identifies four classes of problems which impede such measurement: the purpose problem, the local adaptability probelm, the scalor problem, and the innovation completeness problem. An understanding of…

This monograph, designed to stimulate national discussion, pictures "teacher education as it is" by indicating problems as deans and heads of departments see them, and by reporting innovative practices by which various universities are attempting to resolve some problems. The main sources of this information were university calendars,…

A study attempted to specify a set of attributes of innovations and explore the extent to which these attributes have general utility in accounting for acceptance of innovations. It was hypothesized that (1) it should be possible to select the best predictors of acceptance of innovations from among the set of attribute variables and (2) attributes…

Simulation games are a recent innovative technique that can be used in the classroom. In the past these games have been used by the military, by industry, and by social scientists. Simulation emphasizes the inquiry approach to learning. Each student is an independent and individual learner who can interact with others and react to different…