THE CLOZE READABILITY PROCEDURE WAS EXAMINED TO DETERMINE ITS UTILITY AS A DEVICE FOR EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS. THE POSSIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A METHOD, WHICH INCORPORATES THE CLOZE PROCEDURE, FOR MAKING CRITERION REFERENCE TESTS OVER VERBALLY PRESENTED INSTRUCTION WAS ALSO INVESTIGATED. A DISCUSSION OF CLOZE RESEARCH,…

AN EXPLORATION INTO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE LEARNING OF VARIOUS AGE GROUPS WAS CONDUCTED TO OBTAIN DATA OF DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES FOR THE FORMATION OF LEARNING SET. THE OBJECT-QUALITY DISCRIMINATION LEARNING SET WAS STUDIED TO SEARCH FOR SYSTEMATIC RESPONSE PATTERNS, AND TO EXAMINE AGE DIFFERENCES. THE SAMPLES USED IN THIS STUDY WERE 53 NURSERY…

The papers written by 57 high school students during the 1977 New York Regents Comprehensive Examination in English were analyzed to determine patterns of student writing maturity in comparison with research by Kellogg W. Hunt. Data were collected for t-unit length, clause length, clauses per t-unit, and t-units per sentence. A case study to…

The conceptual, construct, and predictive validity of available instruments for coding relational control is considered in this paper. It approaches conceptual validity by offering a logical analysis that compares each instrument with formative ideas in interactional theory. It then advances data concerning the construct and predictive validity of…

Analyzed were two instructional sequences in mathematics. One was based on a hierarchy of mathematical tasks assumed necessary for selected quantitative science behaviors. The other was based on an instructional sequenc e in mathematics not directly related to the science behaviors. Two science exercises were developed having three quantitative…

This article, written in Russian, propounds the application of the contrastive method in teaching the morphology of Russian to English-speaking students. The presentation is based on categorization by parts of speech. Included here is a comparative analysis of nouns (gender, number, case, expression of definite and indefinite articles),…

Three blocks of classroom materials were developed, taught, and evaluated in ninth grade physical science classes of the San Antonio Independent School District. Concepts involving measurement, ratio, and mapping were taught by laboratory investigations to an experimental group of 27 classes (N = 527). Twenty-one control classes (N = 399) studied…

Ecological research methodology can assist the educational technologist in both his practical decision making responsibilities and in his more formal pursuit of theoretical understandings. Critics of traditional methodologies maintain that the validity of educational inquiry, as well as the generation and verification of educational theories, can…

The aim of this study is to evaluate industrial approaches to management development programs to ascertain the applicability of using similar schooling techniques in Air Force managerial development. The primary emphasis is on where the Air Force might benefit from industry's experience in the middle manager area. An additional objective is the…

This practicum compares federal requirements for affirmative action plans (Executive Order 11246, and Revised Order Number 4) to the existing affirmative action plan of El Paso Community College (Texas). Since the federal guidelines mandata action as well as a written plan, the assessment of El Paso's program is in two phases: (1) the college's…

This study compared three approaches to the two-factor experiment with repeated measures on one factor: (1) the conventional mixed model analysis of variance, (2) the Greenhouse-Geisser conservative analysis of variance, and (3) multivariate extensions of analysis of variance. Computer simulated data were used in a total of 96 sets of covariance…

The study compared the driving histories, for the first six months and first two years following licensing, of drivers who had received two types of driver training in high school in 197l. The subjects were 1644 drivers who had been trained on multi-vehicle ranges and 1759 who had received the traditional "30 and 6" training (30 hours of classroom…

This study sought to ascertain the effect on student behavior of two approaches to visual information transmission. These approaches involved varying the sequence of messages transmitted through the visual communications channel and varying the redundancy of messages presented through this channel. The investigation was conducted as a four-group…

To determine whether significant differences exist between a class taught generative rhetoric and a class taught traditional methods of writing, a strategy was developed for teaching the generative rhetoric of the sentence and the paragraph in a first-semester composition course composed of average students. The 56 subjects were randomly assigned…

An initial study with 30 students in clinical speech pathology training found videotape confrontation to be a powerful clinical training technique. This subsequent study, using 20 additional students, was designed to compare the effectiveness of audiotape and videotape, and to ascertain whether videotape self-confrontation (single and double…