Finds support for the efficacy of a direct instruction paradigm for teaching children reading comprehension skills. (FL)

Presents comparative 1973 survey data on teaching African politics, Latin American politics, and political development courses in the United States. The authors investigated the (1) use of teaching techniques and evaluation of their effectiveness, and (2) theoretical approaches to political development that were found useful. (Author/ND)

Compares three methods of analyzing pairwise treatment differences in a multi-treatment experiment via computer simulation techniques. Under the equal n condition, the robustness of the conventional Tukey Wholly Significant Difference test (WSD) to heterogeneous variances was contrasted with two alternate techniques. Under unequal n conditions,…

Compares three methods of assessing teacher classroom behavior in the teaching of reading. (Author/RB)

Minimal pairs as at present used in the ESL classroom are uncontextualized bits of language that are of little use to the ESL teacher. An alternative, minimal sentences, is described here. Minimal sentences give context and meaning to the sound contrasts. (RM)

This paper is concerned with the role of language in mathematics learning at college level. Its main aim is to provide a perspective on mathematical language appropriate to effectively interpret students' linguistic behaviors in mathematics and to suggest new teaching ideas. Examples are given to show that the explanation of students' behaviors…

The goal of this research is to compare the effectiveness of two teaching methods (inducing a cognitive conflict, or ICC, versus direct teaching, DT) for students of two academic levels (low versus high) regarding gains in the ability to use the control of variables strategy. 121 students who learned in a heterogeneous school were divided into…

In a national climate of moving the media research course from the undergraduate to graduate levels, this paper analyzes an innovative, easily replicative, and significantly successful new modality--implemented at an open-enrollment university in the Deep South--that may point the way to prevent termination of this essential course to…

Description of a general model of teaching which emphasizes certain inherent, fundamental tasks and constraints, and a review of literature related to the model and to open education attempt to increase understanding of what the class-room is and what reform of the classroom entails. (Author/KM)

Author cites five areas of educational technology where progress has been and is being made. These are: clarifying the process, increasing labor specialization, improving educational evaluation, clarifying systems intentions and shifting the factors of production. Article concludes with a comparison of the educational technology approach with the…

To the extent that class discussion is representative of the entire program, the dominant emphasis on memory and interpretation questions in this study suggests that the cognitive objectives of the two programs are remarkably similar. (Authors)

This study was intended to investigate whether junior high school students would develop broad stylistic concepts more efficiently through exposure to exclusively positive exemplars or through exposure to a combination of positive and negative exemplars. (Author/CB)

See FL 502 553 for companion article. (RS)

Analyzes and compares diagnoses made over a five-year period to determine whether differences between diagnoses of students and those of specialists justified further verification by specialized staff, and whether the proportion of such differences had changed with time because of more effective teaching. (WM)

The study examined the effects of three self-instructional approaches of teaching diagnostic problem-solving. Two of the approaches attempted to stimulate student-equipment interaction via programmed and text instruction while a third approach utilized actual equipment. The equipment approach was superior to non-equipment simulation approaches.…