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Naval Education and Training Command, Pensacola, FL. – 1976
The training manual is designed as a self-study package that will enable Mess Management Specialists Third and Second Class to fulfill the requirements of their rating and qualify for future advancement. Among these requirements are the abilities to perform the following food preparation, food service, and hotel management duties, which are in the…
Descriptors: Food Service, Food Standards, Guides, Independent Study
Brandwein, Paul F. – 1975
One of a series of publications for teachers, consultants, and administrators, the guide offers recommendations for curriculum development and science instruction for gifted students in grades 7-12. Discussed in the introductory chapter is creation of a school environment that fosters skills of interdependence (Communication with other scientists)…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Exceptional Child Education, Gifted, Independent Study
Directions for Experimental Education in Higher Education. A Conference for Academic Administrators.
Ford, Ann S., Ed. – 1975
A wide variety of experiential programs that may be used to expand educational experiences is presented. These include service learning internships, cooperative education, volunteer programs, field-based, independent study, practice, work study, and University Year for Action. The participants in these proceedings outline the instructional…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, External Degree Programs, Higher Education, Independent Study
Yaple, Henry M., Comp. – 1976
Programed materials for library education created between 1960 and 1974 are identified. Material included must be some kind of self-paced instructional sequence concerned with library education. Therefore, the scope of the bibliography includes as many aspects of librarianship as there are programed materials to teach it. The materials listed…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Filmstrips
Deep, Samuel D. – 1975
In 1972, the University of Pittsburgh initiated the University External Studies Program (UESP). The program emerged from a recognition of the university's responsibility to provide higher education to those previously unable to attend classes because of family or job responsibilities, geographic isolation, or limited mobility. This paper outlines…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Programs, External Degree Programs
Notre Dame High School, Easton, PA. – 1974
Using this guide and the four popular books noted in it, a student, working independently, will learn about some of the classical ideas and problems of topology: the Meobius strip and Klein bottle, the four color problem, genus of a surface, networks, Euler's formula, and the Jordan Curve Theorem. The unit culminates in a project of the students'…
Descriptors: Enrichment, Experiential Learning, Independent Study, Individualized Instruction
Lind, Donald J. – 1970
Reported are the results of an eighteen-month study of junior college students using programmed algebra materials. Of the 118 students tested at the beginning of the study, only 77 completed the course. When the students were divided into three subgroups based on either their entering mathematics ability or reading ability, the highest group…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement, Algebra, College Mathematics
Simmons, Marilyn – 1970
As interest in learning centers grows, such questions as "What is a learning center?" and "How does one get started?" are frequently asked. Essentially a learning center consists of designated areas within the classroom where children may go to do a specific activity related to concept development or skill reinforcement. Learning centers are based…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Independent Study, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
Wight, Albert R. – 1970
Participative education could provide impetus and direction to the educational revolution that has been brewing for some time. This approach, based on student involvement and participation, would meet the needs of students and teachers, both of whom are searching for alternatives to traditional education. Emphasizing self-responsibility,…
Descriptors: Child Responsibility, Creativity, Educational Objectives, Independent Study
Bloomberg, Marguerite – 1929
Various lesson plans for museum instruction were tested on fifth grade children of fair and high intelligence in an attempt to improve upon the "accepted method" of teaching, which was thought to be better suited to the child of low intelligence than to his abler classmates. The lesson plans tested were: (1) the accepted method…
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Education, Educational Experiments
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1970
This booklet describes the Model Observation Kindergarten and First Grade whose approach is based on the philosophy that education should be centered in the learner, that children learn at different rates and that children learn something only when they are ready. Many aspects of The British Infant Schools are incorporated in the program. Sources…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Grade 1, Group Activities, Independent Study
Iowa Univ., Iowa City. Special Education Curriculum Development Center. – 1969
Meaningful and challenging seatwork, different kinds of work, minimum teacher preparation time, writing and explaining directions, evaluating student work, and organization and management are discussed. Preparatory steps for planning seatwork activities are described and consider identifying information, specification of major skills, objectives,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Education, Independent Study, Instructional Materials
Hedl, John Joseph, Jr. – 1969
To examine the effects of varied roles, forms of feedback, and error spacing on subject attitudes and learning in programed instruction (PI), 125 students in an introductory psychology course were randomly assigned to treatment groups differentiated by three ways of spacing error-producing frames (spaced, semi-massed, and massed), two forms of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Feedback, Independent Study, Learning Theories
Grady, Roslyn M. – 1969
Mitchell High has been operating under a modular scheduling system for two years. Earlier studies have measured student and faculty opinion. This study was designed to sample parent opinion. Four hundred parents, constituting a 20% random sampling of the 2,000 students enrolled in grades 10-12, were mailed questionnaires in May 1969. Responses…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Flexible Scheduling, High Schools, Independent Study
Whiteside, Moeckel and Carbonell, Architects, Wilmington, DE. – 1966
The best techniques of individualized instruction have been utilized in the development of the program in this new middle school. Team teaching will provide for large and small group instruction plus opportunities for independent study. The teacher teams will utilize both the horizontal and vertical organizational approach. Diagrams of the…
Descriptors: Building Plans, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Programs, Flexible Schedules