A systematic approach to the training of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) is required to meet the challenges posed by growing numbers of undergraduate and graduate students. At University College Dublin, educational developers and academic staff across six schools collaborated on the design and phased implementation of context-specific GTA…

Presents the plans and objectives of the Canada Studies Foundation which is designed to improve the quality of studies about Canada in the school systems of the ten provinces. (Author/RB)

Constitutes a guide to software, hardware, and multimedia learning programs. Aims to assist school board members, superintendents, and school principals with the comparative use and usefulness of today's curriculum commodities. (Author/WM)

A vast amount of pedagogical literature, including primary source material, which treats educational developments in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden is available in the English language. Listed are the materials that appear from 1960-1973. Names and addresses of Scandinavian sources of educational documentation are also cited. (Author/RM)

In this report, a one-page summary is included about each of the projects active within the 1956-74 period that responded to a questionnaire sent. In addition to the basic facts, a commentary on what were thought to have been major accomplishments of the particular group is presented. Keys to the information on project descriptions are provided,…

This product development report is one of 21 such reports, each dealing with the developmental history of a recent educational product. Discussed here is the Developmental Economic Education Program (DEEP), which is focused on developing economic education programs to improve the understanding of economics in the nation's schools. The target…

Discusses the energy/environmental/economics issues that are considered urgent and long-lived. Also describes the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) energy-educational projects and materials such as the NSTA-Energy-Environmental Materials, Energy and Education Newsletter, and the Summer 1976 and Summer 1977 instructional products. (HM)

Discussed the development of Japanese language study in Hawaii, the teaching techniques and educational facilities. (RK)

The recent structural reforms in New Zealand education have enabled the liberalisation of upper secondary school curricula to the point where schools can devise programmes that lead to nationally recognised vocational qualifications. Strategies include close relationships with further education providers whereby instructional materials or direct…

To ascertain whether Title III, 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, had affected the educational programs of the public schools in Mississippi, only that data which dealt directly with the implementation and operation of a project were utilized as sources of information. Included in the data sources were the initial proposals submitted for…

The purpose of this book is to assist teachers, instructional developers, curriculum planners, textbook authors, etc., to design and develop instructional materials to teach concepts. Five empriically validated procedures are used: (1) definition, (2) expository presentation of example/nonexample pairs, (3) attribute isolation help for each…

The application of conventional psychometric procedures to instructional product development is outlined. Selected non-psychometric requirements of developing and delivering effective instruction are described and the consequent implications for psychometric procedures set forth. Present instructional development technology is circumscribed in…