This 62 item bibliography is divided into three parts: 1) Comparative Studies: block-time students matched with students in more conventional programs; 2) Normative Studies: achievement of block-time students compared with test norms or averages; and, 3) Summaries. Most of the doctoral dissertations, journal articles, and other research reports…

This booklet gives a general overview of the computerized Stanford School Scheduling System (SSSS) which is designed to make scheduling less difficult for individualized programs in secondary education. Topics covered include new flexible scheduling and variable course structure designs in secondary education, the school scheduling problem,…

This training guide, prepared to assist administrators and instructors in organizing courses and developing course content in training electronics mechanics, contains 14 major course units covering 6 hours per day, 5 days per week for 50 weeks or 1,500 hours of shop and classroom instruction. The units included are: (1) Mathematics, (2) Direct…

This study, designed to determine the appropriate goals and to identify, codify, and outline the core content for the industrial education teacher preparation in fluid power instruction, has the following four objectives: (1) to determine the specific and appropriate goals for the preparation of industrial education teachers to teach fluid power…

The Fort Worth Trimester Plan (Intensified Learning Plan) employes three terms of approximately 60 days, each to replace a 90-day semester. To maintain an equivalent amount of classroom time, class periods are extended to 80 minutes at the high school level. The plan was implemented at one high school and three middle schools in 1970-71. The…

The Secondary Education Individualized Instruction Project is an attempt to place the preservice course, SED 351--Teaching in Secondary Schools, on an individualized mode, using a systems-oriented, competency-based approach. During the summer session of 1970, the specification of course objectives and development of instructional packers was…

Developed by curriculum coordinating unit staff, this study guide was designed for use by students in occupational orientation classes. Intended to serve as a central core around which class activities may be structured, the guide includes 17 units on topics such as: (1) Determining the Importance Of Work, (2) Understanding The Present World Of…

This document contains four separate reports on different aspects of the teacher education program at the new Governors State University. The first report describes a "learning team," which is to consist of approximately 14 individuals--both professors and students--who have come together because of common interests in a given profession. The team…

Reported is an experiment on instructional episodes organized around the planetary atomic model. The study involved 236 children of eight self-contained classes, four of which were reference classes in each of 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. The purpose was to investigate the feasibility of presenting these activities within a cognitive hierarchy…

The author discusses three instructional strategies--mini-courses, games and simulations, and learning environments outside the classroom--which are currently being employed in speech communication education. The three strategies embody the well established learning principles that students learn better when they: (1) know what it is they are…

Samples of the Self-Paced Physics Course materials are presented in this collection for dissemination purposes. Descriptions are included of course objectives, characteristics, structures, and content. As a two-semester course of study for science and engineering sophomores, most topics are on a level comparable to that of classical physics by…

A NUMBER OF PROCEDURES FOR IMPROVING THE CONVENTIONAL TELEVISION LESSON WERE EVALUATED. THREE VERSIONS OF A TELEVISION LESSON ON LEVERS WERE COMPARED--(1) A VERSION OF AN EXISTING, CONVENTIONAL LESSON USED AS A CONTROL TREATMENT, (2) A VERSION INTENDED TO FACILITATE RETENTION OF SCIENCE CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES, AND (3) A VERSION INTENDED TO…

This manual, an outgrowth of a pilot project (at De Anza College in California) which provided college education for nursing assistants to replace on-the-job training, presents: (1) a description of the pilot project (philosophy and purpose, history and background, value, problem areas, and recommendations), (2) process for implementing a nursing…

An investigation of the effectiveness of a mathematics course for preservice elementary teachers showed that the use of mastery learning principles in a traditional classroom setting can be effective. (SD)

A testing of 159 first-year medical students who took a spaced sex education course (requiring student participation in a weekly lecture, film, and group discussion) showed significant changes in cognitive knowledge as well as attitudinal tolerance of others but no changes in styles of thinking. Results are related to earlier studies. (JT)