This chapter outlines the theory of cost-benefit analysis and discusses its application to determining the cost-benefit of instructional development projects. Three types of applications are discussed: (1) descriptive applications of single projects; (2) predictive studies of proposed projects; and (3) comparative analysis of alternative projects…

Presents some examples, from Japanese and English, in which the syntactic and semantic correspondence seems to be sufficiently established as to demonstrate the efficacy of the rationalist approach, which is defined here as an attempt "to give students the reasons for grammatical phenomena, relating facts about the second language to facts about…

In business research situations it is often of interest to examine the differences in the responses in repeated measurements of the same subjects or from among matched or paired subjects. A simple and useful procedure for comparing differences between proportions in two related samples was devised by McNemar (1947) nearly 60 years ago. Although…

While editors have no way of encoding most of the features of the human voice, they are often able to use punctuation and other devices to give the impression of speech. While retaining many distinctive features of a personal voice is possible in writing, considerations of voice are inseparable from considerations of textual features and audience…

THE REPORT OF A STUDY CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER EMBELLISHED VISUAL SEGMENTS OF AN INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM WOULD HAVE MORE IMPACT ON THE LEARNER IN HIS EFFECTIVE RESPONSE TO THE TOTAL STIMULUS SITUATION WAS PRESENTED. THE PROGRAM USED IN THE STUDY DEALT WITH THE TOPIC OF BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES. IT WAS DESIGNED TO TEACH PRESERVICE AND INSERVICE…

The purpose of this research was to design and test materials and methods to be used in teaching a first course in undergraduate engineering dynamics. The basic problem in this study was to determine the optimum order of presenting abstract materials and applications in the same course. Tests were administered to determine differences among…

Both goal-free and goal-based methodologies were operationalized. Subjects for the study were nominated by leaders in the evaluation field. Subjects were randomly selected and assigned to treatments. Sites were randomly assigned to either methodology. Reports generated from each were sent to project directors to be rated on criteria found in the…

The research was conducted to determine if a physically complex, continuous, three-dimensional psychomotor skill could be acquired more efficiently with simulated-task, augmented feedback than with the feedback normally provided by performing the task itself. The specific skill selected for the study was shielded metal arc welding because it is…

Methodological developments in comparative education have influenced those in comparative physical education and sport. The history of those developments in comparative education, moreover, are similar to those in the newer field. The overall methodological developments in comparative education have been the following: studies involving history…

Presented are the results of one university's experience with three different models of determining institutional program costs. The three models discussed are the National Center for Higher Education Information Exchange Procedures (NCHEMS IEP), the Ohio Board of Regents Resource Analysis Procedure, and the Association of American Medical…

The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate television as an instructional medium for teaching creative thinking to fifth and sixth grade students by use of the "inquiry" method of instruction in the area of science. A secondary purpose was to determine the effect of student involvement in the live telecasts on their performance on a test…

Two approaches to teaching college algebra were evaluated to determine their effectiveness in achieving the objectives of college algebra in the industrial technology curriculum. The null hypothesis of no significant difference in the effectiveness of the traditional approach to teaching college algebra and an experimental approach was…

This paper compares the methods for prescribing exercise according to various contemporary authorities. The programs are compared as to their goals, the testing modalities and physiological parameters used for prescription of the initial training session, and the methods and the progression of training. Regarding goals, there is a general…