Preparation for Parenthood is a city-wide program designed for the purpose of: (1) decreasing the complication of pregnancy for school-age girls due to poor nutrition and poor prenatal care, and consequently reducing infant mortality, mental retardation, and birth defects; and (2) enabling the girls to continue their educational ambitions, thus…

The effects of conventional classroom instruction, television instruction alone, and the combination of classroom and television instruction on the learning of science content and vocabulary by 470 sixth-grade students was tested. The three treatment groups were pre- and posttested to determine the degree of achievement each group attained. The…

To help educators obtain more specific comparative data on preschool programs, this paper develops some common constructs for the objective assessment of any program. The constructs proposed are: (1) density, the total amount of sensory stimulation encountered within a given time span; (2) variety, the extent to which the program provides…

A computer-assisted instruction (CAI) curriculum module covering the area of electrical inductance was developed and evaluated. This module was a part of a program in which a series of CAI modules are being developed and tested for a Navy training course in basic electronics. After the module was written, it was given three tryout tests.…

Ranking and rating methods of making direct judgments of pairwise similarity are compared. Three dimensional configurations of seven objects are derived under both judgment methods across two equivalent groups of 59 university students. Using Cliff's orthogonal rotation method of multidimensional matching, comparisons are made between methods…

In an effort to determine the relative effects on achievement and retention, of three methods of teaching basic electricity disadvantaged students, 48 eighth grade disadvantaged students were randomly assigned to three groups and instructed using either an interaction reinforcement, a summary reinforcement, or neither. The experiment used a…

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TELEVISION TEACHING OF ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS WAS COMPARED WITH REGULAR CLASSROOM TEACHING BY ESTIMATING THE DIFFERENCES IN ACHIEVEMENT, INTEREST, DESIRE, MERIT, AND POSSIBILITIES THAT EACH APPROACH HAD TO OFFER. EACH GROUP WAS ADMINISTERED A BATTERY OF EIGHT TESTS ON A PRE- AND POST-TEST BASIS. ON EACH OF THE EIGHT…

Presents teaching strategies by which elementary social studies teachers can introduce a study of China. Students compare (1) their daily schedules with that of a sixth grader in Tientsin, (2) American and Chinese popular music, and (3) costs of living and income in China and America. Journal availability: see SO 506 831. (AV)

A presentation, by way of texts and charts, of the French pronoun system, which owes its complexity to the fact of its derivation from Latin and to the persistence of the Latin heritage. Suggestions for use of the charts in language classes at all levels are given. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

This study examined the differences in total number of eye movements, direction of the reading scan, and total scanning time of good and poor second-grade readers who were being taught reading by either the phonics or sight-recognition method. (HOD)

Describes an experiment which compared demonstration and discovery teaching methods in two urban British junior schools. Concludes that the demonstration method resulted in higher test scores, better comprehension, and application of basic knowledge in a unit on magnetism and electricity. (Author/DB)

This report provides figures for seven states of the cost of student transportation following desegregation. (Author/AM)

Analyzes five studies that evaluated vocational education research and development conducted during the past three years and makes recommendations for future evaluations in this area. A table of comparison factors for the five studies supplements the text. (MF)

This class activity for senior high and adult education provides a medium for teaching cultural pluralism. Information about an ethnic wedding and a non-ethnic wedding is presented. (Author/RM)

The mastery approach toward learning drug product information seems to be a useful method to improve a student's knowledge, but the approach requires more faculty time since it is geared toward the individual student. (LBH)