Students enrolled in a university educational psychology course were subjects in this study to determine the effects of preparation on the level of vagueness in lecturing. Subjects were provided either five or eleven minutes to prepare lecture notes on a given topic. Results showed preparation time, number of note words, and a test of topic…

The concluding series of a research program designed to validate a battery of task indexes for use in forecasting the effectiveness of training devices is described. Phase I collated 17 task indexes and applied them to sonar training devices, while in Phase II the 17 index battery was validated, using skill acquisition measures as criteria.…

The demonstration project was designed to develop a teaching method and instructional materials that would emphasize syntactic meanings of words for deaf preschool children. The teaching method was developed with a group of six deaf preschool children, and then demonstrated and modified in five other schools for the deaf. The teaching method was…

Knowing how to read is a very important aid in accelerating mental activity and curiosity in children and thus opening up new regions of thought and experience--one of the broad goals of education. However, reading should not be defined solely in relation to print media. Other languages, such as film, can enrich the study of all humanities…

In this follow-up to a previous monograph on simulation systems in higher education (EM 009 382), sixteen papers on communication and research into all aspects of simulation techniques for pedagogic purposes are presented. An introductory statement provides a tentative explanation for the common basis supporting and linking all simulation and…

This article includes reports of meetings held in Dublin, Bonn, and Strasbourg of member State representatives of the Council of Europe. The first meeting discussed problem areas relating to the access to higher education, in particular the implications of the increasing admission restrictions and the diversification of postsecondary education.…

A preliminary investigation into applying the NPTRL course design procedure to a ship's repair party training program is reported. A training system was developed for repair party training which was workable and produced readily detectable improvements. The procedure proved adaptable to shipboard conditions. Most problems of shipboard training…

The Center for the Study of Intergroup Relations (University of California at Riverside) sponsored a conference on "Desegregation and Equal Educational Opportunity" in the Spring of 1970. At the conference, concerned school superintendents, school board members, researchers in the behavioral sciences, and government officials shared…

This 24-unit audiolingual course in Haitian Creole is prefaced a map of Haiti, an introduction providing an historical and cultural background of the language and its speakers, a description of the sound and grammar systems, and a summary of spelling rules. Units are made up of dialogs based on some phase of the culture, followed by grammar notes…

A review of research reported in 1970, which might be used by the elementary teacher in facilitating mathematics learning is presented. There are 16 basic categories of research included: teaching mathematical operations; children's perception of geometric representation; curriculum sequencing; teaching of non-decimal numeration; variables which…

This report is the outcome of an international meeting of the UNESCO Institute for Education in Hamburg in 1969. To stimulate interest in the potentialities of research in the field of teacher education, it incorporates the major conclusions reached at the meeting concerning those current problems in teacher education to which methods of empirical…

This paper describes procedures used by the author in analyzing data obtained from observation of a 9-day fourth-grade social studies unit developed by the Washington University Social Studies Curriculum Project. Analysis included the development of a chart showing the structure of each lesson from two teachers' lesson plans. The actual sequence…

To assess the outcomes of using a resource guide which provides for individual student needs in the teaching of listening skills, a multi-criterion instrument (consisting of the STEP-Listening Test, questionnaire, interview, and log) was administered to 15 fifth grade students, who had received instruction by three different methods. Based upon…

This study was designed to determine if there was any difference between a programed method of teaching composition--based on the premise that students write best when they write about themselves, their experiences, or the things they are familiar with--and a traditional method using literature as a model for writing. Six classes of college…

Designed to bridge the gap between traditional teacher-supplied content and process and the needs of the "rock era" student, this course focuses on developing minimum goals. The goals are related to musical attitudes, musical understanding, and musical skills of the student. The emphasis is on the student's human values, interpersonal feelings,…