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Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. – 1966
PROJECT CONCERN IS A 2-YEAR EXPERIMENTAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM IN WHICH OVER 250 DISADVANTAGED YOUNGSTERS IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE FIVE ARE BUSED FROM THEIR INNER CITY SCHOOLS TO FIVE MIDDLE CLASS SUBURBAN SCHOOL SYSTEMS. IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE CHANGE IN MILIEU, WITH OR WITHOUT SOME SUPPORTIVE SERVICES, WILL CREATE POSITIVE CHANGES IN THE…
Descriptors: Black Students, Bus Transportation, Control Groups, Disadvantaged Youth
Applegate, Neil J. – 1976
Two different control groups were used to evaluate the use of pre- and post-test examination questions presented in the format of a Navy training film. The control group was given a paper-and-pencil pre- and post-test while the experimental group received the pre- and post-test questions within the context and format of the film. While no…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Comparative Testing, Control Groups, Criterion Referenced Tests
PETERSON, JOHN F.
INFORMATION ON THE BACKGROUND AND ATTITUDES OF AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF 191 HIGH-POTENTIAL, LOW-ACHIEVING 10TH-GRADE STUDENTS WAS SUPPLIED TO THEIR TEACHERS TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF THIS INFORMATION ON THE STUDENTS' PERFORMANCE. TEACHERS OF STUDENTS (114) IN A QUASI-CONTROL GROUP WERE INFORMED THAT THEIR PUPILS HAD TESTED AS UNDERACHIEVERS, BUT…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Control Groups, Educational Research, Experimental Groups
Crist, Robert L. – 1968
The use of group approval as a social reinforcer and related methods in group presentation of programed instruction were investigated in a series of studies. The efficacy of programed instructional materials is frequently limited by their inability to command and maintain adequate attention and motivation. To consider social reinforcement effects…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Attention Control, Experimental Groups, Feedback
Perlish, Harvey Neil – 1968
Can and should the preschool child learn to read? To answer this and related questions, a study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a television program and parental home assistance in teaching reading skills to three-year-old children. For five days a week over a 39-week period, an experimental group watched "Wordland Workshop," a…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Educational Television, Experimental Groups, Home Instruction
Kibler, Robert J., Ed. – 1964
Chapter V is made up of information on the attitudes and background of participants in an experimental freshman year program for underachieving high school graduates at Southern Illinois University. Included is a description of changes and differences among the students resulting from the experimental treatment and of the participants' reactions…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Background, College Freshmen, College Programs
White, Stroller Tod – 1967
This study investigated the extent to which the Analytic Trouble Shooting Program (ATS) trained troubleshooters in an automobile assembly plant (1) to use information about a problem to determine the cause of that problem and (2) to anticipate and prevent problems. Troubleshooters in two specific departments were general foremen, foremen, process…
Descriptors: Assembly (Manufacturing), Control Groups, Doctoral Dissertations, Engineers
Ulrich, Roger E. – Behavior Modification Monographs, 1973
This monograph relates the numerous problems involved in developing an experimental community named Lake Village in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Formulated by several psychologists, the experiment is an off-shoot of a conference on alternative communities held in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1966. The community centers around an educational strategy that would…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Child Development, Community Development, Early Childhood Education
Farrell, Glen Michael – 1969
This study evaluated whether effectiveness in curriculum planning groups is raised by involving a professional adult educator as a nondirective, information giving group member, or by training group chairmen in discussion leadership skills. Group effectiveness was measured by member satisfaction with the group product, satisfaction with…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Control Groups, Creativity, Curriculum Development
Taylor, William R. – 1968
The results of an experimental project in American history which introduced to students the methods of historical investigation in specific historical areas through small group research rather than through the college survey course are described in this report. Discussed are (1) the course organization, consisting of two semester units in which…
Descriptors: College Programs, Colonial History (United States), Experimental Groups, History Instruction
Dawson, George G.; Davison, Donald D. – 1973
A group of 34 experimental and 45 control teachers provided data on 1,866 pupils in 75 different classrooms in 24 communities in the United States to determine the extent to which the workshop training provided for recipients of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation Fellowships in the summer of 1972 affected the economic understanding of their pupils.…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Economics Education, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Schneider, Virginia Lee – 1970
To find an improved method of teaching remedial English classes, a study was made to determine whether: (1) emphasis on reading skills leads to improved writing, (2) reading can be improved in an English class, (3) reading skills can be taught by teachers with little or no training. Six sections of Remedial Freshman English were used. Three…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Control Groups, Developmental Reading, English Instruction
Katz, Phyllis A. – 1972
The theoretical rationale underlying the present investigations begins with the assumption that perceptual categorization of racial groups is a prerequisite for subsequent attitude development. It is predicted that if increased perceptual similarity of other groups does indeed initiate attitude acquisition, then it follows that a decrease in…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Blacks, Childhood Attitudes, Control Groups
Hopkins, Fred Wright, Jr. – 1969
The purpose of this study was to determine whether more or less comprehension occurred on the part of the human receiver when information was transmitted in a verbalized, compressed, repetitive manner through the auditory channel in the same unit of time necessary for one "normal" transmission. A research hypothesis was developed which…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Evaluation, Experimental Groups, High School Students
JOHNSON, RODNEY H. – 1965
A 3-YEAR STUDY OF THE RESULTS OF BASAL AND INDIVIDUALIZED READING PROGRAMS IN 14 FIRST-GRADE EXPERIMENTAL AND 14 CONTROL CLASSROOMS IN EIGHT SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN WISCONSIN IS PRESENTED. SUBJECTS INCLUDED 359 BOYS AND 349 GIRLS. ALL EXPERIMENTAL (INDIVIDUALIZED) CLASSES WERE PAIRED WITH CONTROL (BASAL) CLASSES EITHER IN THE SAME BUILDING OR IN THE…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
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