An outline of a quinmester course to increase the student's understanding and enjoyment of the short story is provided. The outline contains performance objectives, course content, teaching strategies, and lists of student and teacher resources. Elements of the short story that are emphasized are point of view, setting, theme, plot, and character.…

A questionnaire was designed to aid the interested professional in describing, characteristics and analyzing his game, model, or simulation, and tested on a number of Department of Defense (DOD) games. An over-riding goal for the questionnaire was to produce a categorization scheme for games in general. The different sections of the questionnaire…

The ability to analyze a word into its component sounds is prerequisite to a child's learning of letter-sound correspondences and therefore to his learning to read. As prereaders do not typically master the ability to analyze a work into its component sounds, techniques must be developed to teach them this skill. Most procedures which have been…

Compiled in this notebook is material from an Earth Control and Investigations Course offered by the Earth Science Branch of the Division of General Research, Engineering and Research Center, Denver, Colorado. The training is designed to promote consistency and uniformity in control and investigation procedures throughout the Bureau of…

This paper presents ideas on using programed instruction in the language laboratory for second language learning. Linear programing is more suited to language instruction than is branching, because the former more easily allows comparison between the students' and teachers' solutions and is technically less complicated and less expensive to…

Credit by examination is essentially the awarding of credit for theoretical knowledge gained outside traditional classroom situations. The examination provides the basis for the kinds and numbers of credits awarded. Programs in credit by examination are innovative because they recognize that people do indeed learn, either purposefully or…

This document briefly states the purposes and scope of and the procedures for administrator evaluation within the context of immediate and future educational goals. Appendixes present administrator evaluation instruments designed to measure professional growth and service in meeting the stated goals. (RA)

This report describes briefly the experimental design and presents the basic contract provisions. The experiment results reveal that performance contracting is no more successful than traditional classroom methods in improving the reading and mathematics skills of poor children. Both control and experimental groups performed equally poorly in…

This speech discusses performance contracting as educational research, notes some evaluation problems, and proposes solutions to these problems. The term performance contracting, according to the report, denotes an administrative rather than an instructional innovation. The author observes that the understanding of instruction and learning derived…

The document, intended to convey some practical application of behavior principles to teachers and teacher educators involved with exceptional children, is a synthesis of the 12 presentations from the CEC Invisible College on the Application of Behavioral Principles in Exceptional Child Education (March 25-26, 1971). Although all were…

One part of the curriculum installation system outlined in this series of five booklets calls for an assessment procedure to measure pupil attainment of instructional objectives, whether cognitive, affective, or behavioral. Activities for the school administrator to schedule prior to the actual involvement of his faculty in the development of a…

Instructional objectives of the Dade County Public Schools Quinmester Program in French for use with "Le Francais Moderne: Part 1" focus on the development of vocabulary and mastery of grammatical structures. The formation of the passe compose with "avoir," object pronouns, the present tense of regular "-ir" verbs,…

Synectics is a method of creative problem solving through the use of metaphor and apparent irrelevancy developed by William J. J. Gordon. The process involves rational knowledge of the problem to be solved, irrational improvisations that lead to fertile associations creating new approaches to the problem, and euphoric state that is essential in…

The effect of teaching poetry writing on (1) attitudes toward literature, and (2) the ability to write prose was studied in four fourth-grade classes of a metropolitan elementary school (42 boys and 40 girls) from working-class backgrounds. The children were randomly assigned, two to the experimental and two to the control group. A program for…

The purpose of this paper is to present a general overview of the nature of and the need for accountability in educational communication. To clarify the nature of a model that will facilitate accountability, a comparative analysis is constructed between a model for instructional design and a model for speech preparation. Detailed attention is…