AN EXPERIMENT IN THE AREA OF RELATED TECHNICAL MATHEMATICS WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE EFFICACY OF PROGRAMED SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS COMPARED TO THE TRADITIONAL METHODOLOGY AND TEXT MATERIAL. ELEVEN CLASSES WERE INVOLVED DURING TWO SEMESTERS--ONE CONTROL GROUP, SEVEN EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS, AND THREE SEMICONTROL GROUPS (EVENING…

RESEARCH IN PROGRAMMED LEARNING REVEALS THAT IT IS USUALLY NO MORE EFFICIENT THAN THE USUAL STUDY-READING, AND IS ALWAYS MORE CLUMSY AND EXPENSIVE. TRIAL OF AN ALTERNATE AUTOINSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURE IS REPORTED. ISSUES OF LEARNING THEORY AND EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE ARE RAISED. A PROGRAMED SET OF 1110 WORDS WAS CONVERTED TO SIX SUCCINCT PARAGRAPHS…

This workbook contains a series of self-instructional guides for producing teacher-made materials useful in classroom situations. The 60 different guides provided cover a variety of techniques for (1) mounting pictures to posterboard, (2) laminating visuals, (3) lettering, (4) making visuals for use on the overhead projector, (5) making…

This short handbook is written to teach the recognition of about 300 common Japanese characters to speakers of English. The characters are presented in a mnemonic approach which emphasizes the pictorial origin of the character and shows how the picture gradually becomes simplifed and modified to form the modern written form. The stories about the…

This study was undertaken to determine if the instructional quality of audiovisual materials is improved when student self-tests are included in the program. Two sound/slide programs on reading line graphs were tested on one-year vocational students at Forsyth Technical Institute, North Carolina. Twenty students in the experimental group used…

The symposium was organized in an attempt to focus attention on self-paced methods in chemistry at all levels of undergraduate instruction. In this volume, 21 papers are presented in which the major intent of each is to individualize instruction. Several of the entries appear under the heading of the Keller Plan, a self-pacing instructional…

The document has been designed to provide enlisted men assigned to the 3"/50 gun with a self-study, on-the-job-training source for shipboard use. The material covered includes general description and operation, functions of various components, disassembly and reassembly, maintenance, and operational casualties of the 3"/50 gun. Detailed…

The present study asked whether laboratory findings that isolation of an item facilitates its recall extended to formal educational settings. Four groups of students from a General Psychology class were differentiated in terms of the type of material which was isolated in assigned readings. Principles, examples of principles, or trivial statements…

The ultimate purpose of studying the problem of students dropping courses is to develop a method of minimizing their number and maximizing the number of those succeeding in courses. The purpose of this preliminary study is to analyze presently available data in terms of success, failure, and dropping of courses. Data were obtained from the grade…

THE USE OF AUDIOTUTORIAL TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING INTRODUCTORY COLLEGE BOTANY IS DESCRIBED. SPECIFIC PRACTICES USED AT PURDUE UNIVERSITY TO ILLUSTRATE DIFFERENT FACETS OF THE APPROACH ARE ANALYZED. INCLUDED ARE INDEPENDENT STUDY SESSIONS, SMALL ASSEMBLY SESSIONS, GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSIONS, AND HOME STUDY SESSIONS. ILLUSTRATIONS AND SPECIFICATIONS…

Contained in this document are translations of military interest concerning the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The following specific items are included: (1) technical training methods, (2) the constantly improving party direction of administrative organs, (3) college for armed forces personnel, (4) development of Leninist principles in…

A review of computer equipment for immediate response interactive systems. CRT display instrumentation is explained, as is additional computer hardware that has direct application to student users. (RAO)

Arbitrary, randomly-generated evaluative feedback given learners (such as "good,""great," or "fantastic") is pedagogically unsound. Programers of educational computer software should consider all the psychological effects of the evaluative feedback given in their programs. Programing alternatives that allow the…

SIMALU is the acronym for self-instructional media-assisted learning unit. Author tells how SIMALU was used to successfully teach a basic electronics course to a group of students without the use of a special facility, and without excessive demands on the instructor's time. (Author)