This survey discusses the following: definition of bilingual education; origin and development of bilingual education; history of the Chinese bilingual program; the learners; language transfer or maintenance; types of Chinese bilingual education; treatment of language mediums; courses in a bilingual program; and teaching Chinese as a first…

Discusses a study in which a group of high school vocational science students using behavioral objectives scored significantly better than did a control group on measures of terminal achievement, critical operations, residual achievement, and attitude toward instruction. (MLH)

Examines regression analysis of 12 aptitude measures and an achievement criterion measure in a study of 285 ninth-grade science students who were randomly assigned to one of four individualized programs: teacher-directed treatment, media treatment, reading treatment, and programmed instruction treatment. (MLH)

No significant differences were found for grade level, sex, or instructional treatment (activity-based curriculum vs. textbook approach) for third and fourth grade science students as measured by Piagetian Classification Tasks, the Science Attitude Scale, and the Science Achievement Test. (MLH)

Presents details of the course and videocassette system used in optional videotaped lectures developed for a personalized system of instruction (PSI) quantum mechanics course. Summarizes a comprehensive evaluation of the course and optional lectures. (MLH)

This article describes the process used by elementary and secondary schools in Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada, to evaluate their schools' curricula. Over 40 external evaluators and as many as 300 K-12 teachers are involved in the process. (Author/RM)

Asserts that "while national attention tends to be focused on the explosive examples of court-order school desegregation, hundreds of schools are quietly and successfully integrated. In addition, recent research in the State of Illinois points out that large numbers of public schools are integrated without special plans." (Author/JM)

Discusses how behavioral objectives and knowledge are related, what form a performance test theory should take, why some people can skip prerequisites whereas others cannot, how people discover new information, the relationship between content and performance analysis, and, how one might apply the structural approach in adaptive instruction.…

Because the importance of a journal is determined by overall quality of the articles it carries, and because an article's influence can be measured in terms of the frequency with which it is cited, the number of citations per article is clearly an appropriate index of its impact. 57 journals were analyzed. (Author/JM)

In this project, students are forced to think about themselves, how they feel, how they fit in their world, where they're going. After striking a pose, a student's contour is then drawn by a partner. Students have the option of filling up the entire body or only the background with college materials. (Author/RK)

As a means of primary prevention this paper suggests the use of relaxation training to develop self-esteem and reduce drug abuse. The aims of this paper are to provide an overview of relaxation training and electromyography and focus this approach on the needs of early adolescents. (Author)

Prospective teachers in undergraduate programs of professional teacher education should experience working with children in school settings as well as in the larger community and observe and participate in pre-student teaching and in student teaching where learning experiences for pupils are based on recommended psychological principles of…