Part of the series "Managing Highway Maintenance," the unit is about maintenance standards and is designed for superintendents and senior foremen who are responsible for scheduling and controlling routine maintenance. It describes different kinds of standards, why and how standards are developed, and how standards are to be used and…

Part of the series "Managing Highway Maintenance," the unit describes the ways maintenance standards are developed and some of the factors which are considered in setting standards; the preceding unit on standards (part 1) should be completed before reading this unit. The format is a programed, self-instruction approach in which…

Part of the series "Managing Highway Maintenance," the unit explains various uses of maintenance standards and how standards should be interpreted and communicated to formen and crew leaders. Several examples are given of the decisions made when applying the standards to routine work. The preceding units on standards (parts 1 and 2)…

This paper reports contributions that students have made in the development of self-instructional materials in dentistry. It begins with a description of forces that encourage utilizing students as members of the instructional development staff and reports the role students have played in attempts to develop an individualized curriculum in…

An evaluation of an individualized program for ninth-grade algebra and basic mathematics students is presented. Objectives of this program were to increase achievement and to create a positive attitude toward mathematics. Materials written for the program were used with audiovisual lessons recorded on tape cassettes. When the achievement gains of…

This study describes the writing, refining, and field testing of six experimental reading skill programs using the branching method of automated programed instruction. Two hundred inner-city fourth grade students were divided into two groups, low and average, on the basis of stanine scores of a previously administered achievement and IQ test. The…

Two reports supplementing the product evaluation of the Learning Booth are presented. The first, "Learing Booth Performance and Subsequent Reading Ability," by N. F. Rayder, examines the relationship between the Learning Booth experience and reading. To do this, readingscores for 65 first-grade Follow Through children were compared with their…

The Student Workbook is a self-instructional unit on American Indian education. The self-instructional material consists of a book of readings (RC007212) or a narrative essay (RC007211) and this workbook which questions secondary social studies students on the essay and readings. The document is divided into: course objectives; activity log sheet;…

Published, as well as selected unpublished, articles dealing with programed instruction and computer-assisted instruction are cited in this bibliography. The articles are drawn from Education Index, Psychological Abstracts, Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), Dissertation Abstracts, and 58 journals in the fields of psychology,…

If students have control over learning devices such as tape recorders, do they learn more? That was the question which this experiment tried to answer using three different situations. In situation A, the subject had no control over the tape playback once the lesson had been started. In situation B, the subject could stop the lesson to take notes…

This project was primarily concerned with the preparation, development and refinement of programed material in prevocational and work-related areas for use with the Devereux Model 50 Teaching Aid and other auto-instructional aids that are readily available throughout the country. A secondary goal was the evaluation of the effectiveness of using…

The tenth volume of the introduction to psychology and leadership course (see the final reports which summarize the development project, EM 010 418, EM 010 419, and EM 010 484) concentrates on discipline and is presented in two parts. This document is a self-instructional text with a tape script and intrinsically programed sections. EM 010 442 is…

The tenth volume of the introduction to psychology and leadership course (see the final reports which summarize the development project, EM 010 418, EM 010 419, and EM 010 484) concentrates on discipline and is presented in two documents. This document is a self-instructional text with audiotape and intrinsically programed sections. EM 010 441 is…

This booklet is one of a series of 17 developed at Prince George's Community College, Largo, Maryland. It provides an individualized, self-paced undergraduate organic chemistry instruction module designed to augment any course in organic chemistry but particularly those taught using the text "Organic Chemistry" by Morrison and Boyd. The…

This booklet, one of a series of 17 developed at Prince George's Community College, Largo, Maryland, provides an individualized, self-paced undergraduate organic chemistry instruction module designed to augment any course in organic chemistry but particularly those taught using the text "Organic Chemistry" by Morrison and Boyd. The…