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Lawton, Joseph T.; Blue-Swadener, Elizabeth – 1979
The effects of two types of advance organizer small group instruction, expository (EO) and guided self-discovery (GSDO) were assessed in teaching the concrete operational skills of either hierarchical classification or relations to preschool children. A control group was taught using the same materials, in a manner determined by the children's…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning
O'Connor, Ann R. – 1986
A description is provided of a project that was conducted to design, implement, and evaluate traditional and guided-practice instructional modules for independent learning of word processing skills. After an overview of the project, the report outlines the following steps in module development: identifying an instructional goal, conducting an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods, Individualized Instruction, Learning Activities
Technical Education Research Center, Waco, TX. – 1978
To evolve a new methodology and system for teaching physics to students aspiring to become (or to become more competent as) technicians in a variety of technologies, this research and development effort was initiated. The project's thesis stemmed from a notion that the study of physics would be more accepted and assimilated by students if concepts…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Educational Research, Electromechanical Technology, Energy
Edington, Everett; And Others – 1977
The energy manpower research project was established to review the process used to identify skills needed in emerging energy sources and to discover any new occupations for which additional post-high school, vocational/technical training would be needed. A supplemental part of the project was the development of a solar energy instructional module.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
