A week-by-week course outline. (CH)

Describes an activity in an elementary science methods course in which preservice teachers use a simulation exercise to select a specific elementary science curriculum program. (JR)

Discusses the educational values of participating in science fairs, and outlines the procedure used at Saint Ursula Academy, Toledo, to interest each biology student in an individual investigation. (JR)

Five forms of written feedback to homework assignments in a mathematics concepts course for elementary teachers were compared. Groups reveiving feedback which was directed specifically to a student's incorrect response scored significantly higher (p.05) on a retention test than groups receiving general explanation of the correct answer. (JP)

Discussion of an item analysis on 40 questions given to 10-year-olds, and presented in a previous issue, is completed. In general, teachers' expectaions of the most important problems and student performance agreed. Several questions on decimals, area, and volume proved most difficult. Limitations of the study are noted. (LS)

Comprehension of film was studied in an ATI (aptitude x treatment interaction) framework which investigated comprehension as a function of the interaction of the stimulation-seeking motive (arousal) and degree of structure in information presented in film. Three levels of organizational coherence of a short film and two levels of the stimulation…

The purpose of this study was to further investigate performance differences between reflective and impulsive subjects on a recognition memory task. Other researchers have proposed that these differences are based on visual analysis and that they are relatively independent of verbal processes. To test this contention, a sentence recognition task…

This student booklet is first in an illustrated series of eleven learning activity packets for use in teaching job hunting and application procedures and the management of wages to secondary students. Focus in this booklet centers on the following sources and agencies that may provide assistance in finding a job: schools, family and friends,…

This volume contains 10 original papers discussing methodologies applicable to performing psychosocial research on substance abuse, particularly abuse with drugs. Eight data analysis strategies are discussed by the authors: automatic interaction detection, actuarial prediction, cluster and typological analysis, path analysis, factor analysis,…

This report on the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) identifies several problems concerning the act and its administration. It has been found that some program funds have been used for general educational rather than desegregation assistance because the administration allowed funding of school districts with planned desegregation efforts which were…

This paper describes the materials, processes, and effects of three individualized compensatory courses in reading, writing, and mathematics. Each course was outlined separately and evaluated according to student performance in selected transfer-level courses. Follow-up studies for each course show that the performance level of former…

Many considerations are involved in obtaining and using federal funds for language arts programs. Before attempting to explore funding, educators should know the basic language arts programs available in their district and what kinds of programs are fundable by particular sources. They should then develop a written program statement that includes…

College composition teachers should get to know students as individuals through such methods as talking to them outside of class, holding teacher/student conferences and in-class writing workshops, and working with them in small groups. Teachers also need to know all they can about their students as a group of learners who are experiencing the…