Investigated were the effects of a modified elementary science education methods course on creative thinking, self-evaluation and achievement. Involved were 30 experimental and 39 control undergraduate elementary science education methods course students. Controls were given usual laboratory sessions and written assignments. Experimental…

This review covers research literature concerning the inquiry method reported by "Social Education" from 1960 to 1968. Studies were selected which dealt with either the learning outcomes or adaptability aspects of inquiry. It is cautiously concluded that under certain conditions inquiry is at least as effective as more traditional…

Five papers given at the International Reading Association conference held in conjunction with a National Council for the Social Studies conference in 1968 are presented in this work. Although each paper is addressed to a different subtopic, there is the common theme of the role that reading can play in social studies instruction. The subtopics…

The extensive social-scientific interest and continuing relevance of environmental study assure its immediate and long-range importance in the social studies. But the crisis atmosphere surrounding this issue threatens a thoughtful, systematic approach to the subject, and poses the danger of a careless rush to activity. As social studies educators,…

Experimental design has only limited utility inthe field of educational evaluation and, in general, the methodology of the former does not equal the methodology of the latter; in fact, experimental design plays a limited role in the total framework of educational evaluation. Experimental design does have potential utility in the areas of input and…

The notes and articles in the present compilation constitute, for the most part, reports of work in progress by the Language Research Foundation staff, and are circulated to interested scholars for the purpose of inviting comments, criticism, and suggestions. Contents include: (1) "The Export of TESOL: Are Audio-lingual Techniques Universally…

To fabricate a technology for teaching young school children with serious behavior problems, classroom materials, curriculum format, and teaching procedures were developed, and problems that evolve from the technology investigated. Two classrooms were architecturally designed to provide the basic needs of a special classroom and to facilitate…

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the usefulness of teacher rating and observational techniques in the evaluation of a preschool program for emotionally disturbed children. Eleven children (nine boys and two girls) participated in the project occurring within the preschool program during one academic year. Teacher ratings were felt to…

Pertinent literature on supervision was cursorily reviewed to provide a backdrop for this study, which extends the work of Payne and Gralinski. Technique-oriented supervision was compared with counseling-oriented supervision, with the employment of additional experimental and control groups. 54 male and 54 female undergraduates in Introductory…

The booklet discusses the history of learning disabilities (LD), the role of the LD teacher consultant as educational diagnostician, as a member of the interdisciplinary team, and in the school system, and guidelines for qualifications of LD teacher consultants. Also included are lists of educational tests, remedial materials, a glossary of terms,…

As a guide for in-depth study of "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by sixth-graders who have completed the basal reader, this document focuses on ways of enabling each child to find satisfaction and enjoyment in the novel; to develop a greater interest in literature; to gain an understanding of plot development in a story; to realize what…

To determine whether significant differences exist between a class taught generative rhetoric and a class taught traditional methods of writing, a strategy was developed for teaching the generative rhetoric of the sentence and the paragraph in a first-semester composition course composed of average students. The 56 subjects were randomly assigned…

This abstract of a larger study provides a synthesis of the procedures for evaluating classroom teachers. The study was designed on the structured interview technique and 80 interviews were gathered from 40 randomly-selected evaluators and the 40 teachers whom they had evaluated. The criteria on which the interview instrument was based are…

The following description sets forth the aims and methodology of a project in Arkansas dialect studies; summarizes the preliminary work being carried on; and outlines the future course of the study. The urgency of the need for such research is pointed out by Moreland: The South is a "formerly distinctive region that is fast losing its…

This paper considers techniques, games and simulations, to deal with the broad area of decision-making in a variety of problem situation. Since violence is a learned behavior, there are alternative ways to handle conflict situations. Simulation games have been utilized primarily in research. The purpose of this paper is to correct this imbalance,…