Vocational, academic, and special education teachers who had received inservice education in the individualization of instruction were observed to determine the effect of the education on their teaching. Data collection and conversion instruments were developed. Six trained observers performed 364 classroom observations in 10 Texas districts with…

The Jefferson County Public School System in Colorado is conducting a study which implements a digital time-shared computer as support for a systems approach to instruction. This study currently involves one elementary school but it will support a total of thirteen schools in the future. The computer support includes computer-generated criterion…

Two versions of a computer-assisted instruction practice lesson on series resonant circuit analysis were compared. One was a program control version which required considerable time for students to reach criterion level. The other program was a revised student control version of the same lesson. In the program control version, quantity of practice…

This booklet presents teacher-developed units of study on the American government for eleventh-grade students. The materials are Part III of a set of classroom strategies intended to help secondary students examine American history in light of the issues identified by the American Issues Forum. Students make posters, interview local government…

At a meeting of community/junior college officials on proposed academic redesign based on learning resource centers, various aspects of instructional development were discussed. Topics include the use of television to extend education, organizing for instructional development, bringing about change, the concept of the learning center, organizing…

A mode of operation that is currently being utilized for research and development activities in a nontraditional college environment is presented. The program described is in the content area of mathematics of life insurance. The students for whom the materials were developed are adults in insurance and related professions who are engaged in…

The curriculum report describes the Experience-Based Career Education project (EBCE) that is attempting to foster productive relationships between school and community and to meet the personal and occupational needs of high school students. The four project centers are: Far West School (Oakland, California), the Academy for Career Education…

The central assumption in domain-referenced testing (DRT), as presented in this book, is that a domain may be determined which adequately represents a particular universe of knowledge. After a domain has been established, the technological and practical problem of using domain-referenced testing must be solved. This book contains a collection of…

Description of the second phase of the project, which has as basic objectives the determination of the feasibility of independent foreign language study in public schools and also an examination of the advantages, disadvantages, potentialities, and limitations of this mode of self-instruction, surveys the procedures 30 eighth-grade students…

Selected institute addresses, group reports, and other material useful for teaching or administering public programs in adult basic education (ABE) are included in this report. Address topics include: Adult Basic Education; The Role of the ABE Teacher; Group Methods for Teaching in ABE; Training Teachers for Teaching Writing Skills in Adult Basic…

Papers related to the work of the Bloomington Conference (April, 1968) for foreign language education improvement and standardization, particularly in teacher training programs, are presented in this special publication. A major effort is made at establishing the idea that good foreign language programs require cooperation between the subject…

This study attempted to show that preparation for and use of an audiovideo dial-select information retrieval system in a new middle school could help to change the teacher's role from that of dispenser of information to guide in an independent learning situation. Because of unavoidable delays in the installation of the dial-select equipment, the…

Field trials of the Lincoln Training System (LTS-3) at Keesler Air Force Base were completed. Fifteen lessons on the material covered in the fifth week of an electronics course were prepared and used. Students using the LTS-3 materials learned slightly better than pupils who received conventional instruction, lower aptitude students performed…

A learning station, as defined in this document, has six components: 1) it is located somewhere in space; 2) it is designed to enable the student to reach a specific objective(s); 3) logical directions are provided for the student; 4) multilevel activities are available; 5) assessment procedures are clearly defined; and 6) a means of recording…

The language laboratory can be effective as an extension of the intermediate or advanced classroom in Russian provided that the techniques used save the students enough time and improve their performance enough to justify making the trip to the lab. Six devices that have proven successful are (1) Review and warm up via dialogues, (2) remedial…