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Lamberg, Walter J. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to investigate the problem of designing instruction in the process of composing. The scope of the study is limited to one kind of writing (the short, autobiographical narrative) and to one kind of instruction (a self-instructional program, developed by means of discrimination programing). Subjects for the study were…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Educational Research, Secondary Education, Student Writing Models
Kelleher, Joan – 1975
The purpose of this study is to examine the concept of individualization of instruction as it applies to high school English instruction. The first two chapters of the study provide the rationale for individualizing high school English instruction, chapters 3 and 4 suggest a strategy, and the final chapter presents a summary and conclusions.…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, English Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Secondary Education
Mackie, Jan – 1975
This study develops historical and theoretical context and presents empirical support for a personal growth model for teaching English in secondary schools, one that centers the English program around instruction in writing or composition. The model is intended to facilitate development in many overlapping and mutually intensifying ways, always…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Theories, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Andreach, James R. – 1975
The hypothesis of this study was that a method of writing instruction that employs expository organizational models to be imitated by students is more effective in improving expository writing organization than conventional classroom instruction in writing. One pre-test and one post-test writing sample were taken from two groups of English 10A…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, English Instruction, Expository Writing
Keller, James B. – 1975
The purposes of the basic rhetorically-focused writing module presented in this document are to aid classroom instruction and to furnish a model of ideas and simplified techniques for developing other writing modules. Contents of this document are an introduction, a discussion of the journal as a writing form, an outline overview of the model, and…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Junior High Schools, Lesson Plans, Masters Theses
Freitag, Richard Alan – 1974
The objective of this study was the development of a teaching model based on the concept and use of (non-simulation) games in the mathematics classroom. The game model was defined according to the organization described by Joyce and Weil. Six games were used in the study; each televised game session was preceded by a pre-test and followed by a…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Doctoral Dissertations, Experiential Learning, Games
Bleakley, Lou Ann – 1974
This study is concerned with the concept of rhetorical stance: the interrelationships among speaker, content, and audience in a communication situation. It is hypothesized that when the rhetorical stance model is applied to the secondary English curriculum, the teaching of literature will improve. This hypothesis is confirmed by evidence gained in…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Theories, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Schwieger, Ruben Don – 1974
The purpose of this study was the construction of a theoretical model for analyzing mathematical problem solving. A list of general problem-solving abilities was generated through a literature search. This list was narrowed to eight basic abilities pertinent to mathematics problem solving. Each of these was operationally defined and exemplified in…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education, Mathematics Education
Roach, William Lester, Jr. – 1976
This study compared the relative effectiveness of two communication-skills training models: Ivey's Microcounseling Paradigm and Carkhuff's Systematic Human Relations Training Model. After 107 educational psychology students volunteered to participate in the group that fit their schedules, treatments were randomly assigned. Pretesting and…
Descriptors: College Students, Communication Research, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Bardos, Jeno – 1995
This report describes the method of foreign language teacher training used in Hungary called the Veszprem (a region in Hungary) model, with particular emphasis on English-language teaching, and includes a brief review of foreign language teacher training in Hungary and in the United States from 1988-1990. The Veszprem model maintains the positive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, Language Teachers
McCue, Frances – 1997
This master's project contains two essays and a long poem, examining the possibilities of creative writing as a tool of inquiry in mathematics, history, science, film, art, and architecture. The project's first essay, "The Poet in the Warehouse," introduces a brief history of imaginative writing and an argument for its inclusion in…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Fiction, Films, High Schools
Keys, Delpha Bostock – 1975
A kindergarten pre-reading program was designed based upon Piagetian and Montessorian theory. During the pilot study, pre-reading experiences, materials and games were created to encourage individual diagnosis and specific pre-reading skills assessment. The following year the investigator conducted a descriptive study of the program's…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Inservice Teacher Education, Kindergarten Children
Peister, Phoebe G. – 1976
This study describes and tests the aptitude treatment interaction (ATI) approach to reading. The rationale which forms the basis of ATI--pairing student to method--evolved from the works of Piaget and other psychologists whose studies focus on the general, and cognitive, development of children. From these studies, it was determined that…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading
Denton, Jon James – 1972
The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate an instructional model which utilized the computer to produce individually prescribed instructional guides in physics at the secondary school level. The sample consisted of three classes. Of these, two were randomly selected to serve as the treatment groups, e.g., individualized instruction and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
Gordon, Helen H. – 1979
A study of two groups of students at Sacramento City College (California) was undertaken in Fall, 1978, to determine whether the holistic approach to the teaching of basic writing (involving the techniques of free writing, writing from stimulus words, and controlled composition) could result in more significant gains in fluency and reduction of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations, English
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