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Johnson, Glenn Ross; Morris, Geneva – 1982
The views of biology department heads concerning the state of the art in program development were surveyed. A random sample of 132 biology department heads in state-supported colleges and universities responded to questions focusing on program development and curriculum aspects. The responses were compared to those of English, history, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Biology, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Hines, Caroline B. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2004
The course of study of time-of-day effects on human performance has not been an easy one to chart, with many findings that seem to be in opposition. This review examines the difference between group and individual differences with regard to time-of-day effects; time-of-day effects in individuals; morningness-eveningness as an individual…
Descriptors: Time Management, Biology, Individual Differences, Individual Characteristics
Casey, Jean – 1977
This report on the Santa Clara Plus Assessment and Activities Program describes the development of the Santa Clara Inventory of Developmental Tasks and evaluates the program's effectiveness. Intended as an observational tool for teachers concerned with the development of readiness, the Inventory provides a procedure for: (1) observing children's…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Developmental Tasks, Diagnostic Teaching, Early Childhood Education
Rose, Andrew M. – 1978
An ongoing series of experiments has extended Rose's information processing approach to job performance assessment. Each study investigated cognitive tasks from the literature on memory, psycholinquistics, and visual information processing, for potential inclusion in the test battery. Each task was then evaluated against three criterion areas: (1)…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Evaluation Needs
Ochoa, Anna S.; Shuster, Susan K. – 1980
A guide is designed for elementary school teachers with handicapped students in their classrooms. Seven sections comprise the document. Section I discusses the implications of mainstreaming for classroom teachers. Discussed are 1) the physical and social isolation of the handicapped students in the 1960s; 2) the impact of Public Law 94-142 which…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Environment, Curriculum, Disabilities
GROPPER, GEORGE L.; KRESS, GERARD C., JR. – 1964
SELF-PACED INSTRUCTION, DETERMINANTS OF A SELF-ADOPTED PACE, AND THE EFFECTS OF THE PACE ADOPTED ON BEHAVIOR WERE STUDIED. THIS REPRESENTED THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF THREE STUDIES, CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PACING MODE AND BEHAVIOR. (REFER TO ACCESSION NUMBERS ED 003 200, ED 003 201, AND ED 003 202 FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Behavior Patterns, Educational Television, Educational Testing
McPartland, James – 1968
Using data on ninth-grade Negro students in the Metropolitan Northeast collected in the Office of Education "Equality of Educational Opportunity Survey" (Coleman Report), this study investigated (1) the degree to which each of five situational factors distinguishes between segregated and desegregated school situations and (2) the extent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Black Students, Classroom Desegregation
Burrows, Charles K.; Okey, James R. – 1975
Bloom has argued that most students, not just a few, should be able to do top quality school work if given appropriate instruction. Mastery learning, which includes frequent diagnostic testing followed by remedial instruction, has been proposed as an effective strategy for increasing pupil achievement. In this study, teachers used a mastery…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Rating, Diagnostic Tests
Kotwal, Marilyn – 1974
The distribution of educational experience in countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is presented in this paper. It covers those sections of the population who have terminated formal education. Educational attainment is measured in two ways: in terms of years of educational experience and by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Census Figures, Comparative Analysis
Keyfitz, Nathan – 1974
This survey of the literature on methods of analysis to measure equality of educational opportunity and social mobility emphasizes methods of analysis rather than substantive results. It also sketches some potentially important work using transition matrices and vacancy chains. Much is also done with two-way tables, sometimes summarized into two…
Descriptors: Economic Opportunities, Educational Economics, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Becker, Gerald; And Others – 1970
This document is a review of current literature on the administration of elementary schools and on the roles elementary school principals play in relating to the issues and problems of their schools. It is part of a larger study on problems confronting elementary school principals (EA 002 923). The literature is classified into six problem areas…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Bibliographies, Collective Bargaining
Baldwin, Alfred L.; And Others – 1970
This study details three methods developed during the course of an investigation for describing adult-child interaction: (1) the "VINEX" category system for coding the actual language of the adult and the child; (2) a coding system for describing nonverbal behavior; and, (3) "Interaction Language," for the use of an observer in…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
Merrill, M. David – 1974
A careful reading of Cronbach and Snow's "Aptitudes and Instructional Methods" reveals that an aptitude-treatment-interaction (ATI) approach is not just a research methodology but is, in fact, a theory oriented philosophy of proposed revision in curriculum and instructional methodology. It is our contention that as a theoretical argument…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academically Gifted, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Ability
Bessemer, David W.; Shrage, Jules H. – 1969
Recommendations for an alternative plan, based on typological analysis techniques, for the evaluation of student characteristics related to media, presentation design, and academic performance are presented. Difficulties with present evaluation plans are discussed, and different methods of typological analysis are described. Included are…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Autoinstructional Aids, Communication (Thought Transfer), Curriculum Design
Clark, Gilbert A. – 1972
The research reported here was designed to measure the abilities of school-age children to form and generalize "visual concepts" on the basis of their observation of prepared sets of art reproductions. The art reproduction sets displayed similarities based upon various visual attributes. Discrimination of the attributes common to any…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Art, Children, Classification
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