This study was designed to test the effectiveness of providing students with instruction on how to use the information contained in examples and non-examples of disjunctive concepts, and of five different instructional sequences of examples and non-examples. Students (192) enrolled in a mathematics course for prospective elementary teachers served…

Needs assessment is a systematic procedure by which educational needs are identified and ranked in order of priority. The process involves the use of both objective (achievement test scores) and subjective (attitudinal measures) information to identify and rank educational needs. A procedure to guide the needs assessment effort includes various…

Historical perspectives on nonformal education are examined in this report which is one of a series on nonformal education. Background information for the series is included in document SO 008 058. Chapter 1 relates nonformal education to the concept of development now held by such international assistance agencies as the World Bank and UNESCO.…

This paper attempts to summarize the state of the field of educational anthropology, as it relates to studies of educational institutions and processes. Major research done by anthropologists in three areas--school ethnographies, school-community contacts with ethnic minorities, and cognitive and linguistic development--is reviewed. Topics covered…

The establishment of the concept "directed learning" (DL) was achieved by a comprehensive review of anthropological literature. DL is a form of deliberate enculturation, but it is distinguished from schooling by its informality. Further, schooling is not found in non-literate societies. The major problem in studying the structure and function of…

In this study, features of the child's development of language were described in terms of rhetorical communication--i.e., the child's development of language (inventio), his use of conceptual schemes to elaborate and unify utterance (dispositio), and his acquisition of an abstract communicative perspective permitting him to use language…

At a national institute held August 18-29, 1969, 90 individuals met to discuss the development of programs of short-term teacher education for health specialists who were needed to instruct supportive-level health workers. This publication contains revised guidelines and presentations made at the institute and is intended to aid participants and…

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between the theories of B.F. Skinner and Carl R. Rogers. In sections 2 and 3, the author discusses the Skinnerian and Rogerian theories by selecting and explicating key elements and delineating the general, comprehensive, theoretical position of each. Sections 4 and 5 present each man's…

An evaluation model was developed to aid the classroom instructor in more effectively teaching his course by providing him with the basic data upon which to make judgements about student abilities, course attitudes, grade distributions, test appropriateness, etc. The MERMAC system was designed so that each instructor could obtain the data in a…

This bibliography of materials relevant to educational policymaking is confined to trends, forecasts, and proposals -- i.e., documents on changes that are taking place, on future states of affairs, and on recommended changes. The material is organized into seven sections: (1) general, (2) elementary and secondary, (3) higher education, (4) other…

The development of a single value revision indicator which would utilize learner performance data obtained from a pretest-posttest design to rank a set of instructional modules as to their relative need for revision is discussed. A set of procedures was developed in connection with the implementation of the Production, Implementation, Evaluation,…

A consideration of the use of the phrase "equality of educational opportunity" and of the educational models used to attempt its implementation suggest the following recommendations. If education is to devise learning models that will maximize individual potential and aid in matching human abilities to the work required by societies, then (1) we…

This study investigated whether modifying a career development course (CDC) format by means of simpler written materials, more illustrations, and the addition of an audio tape recording could improve the CDC as a training device for basic job information, especially with airmen having minimum verbal skills. High, middle, and low aptitude personnel…

The Institute was conducted from June 6, 1966 through July 8, 1966 by Henderson State Teachers College, which accepted forty-five participants in teams of three from each of fifteen school districts. The team consisted of a supervisor, a guidance person, and a language arts specialist or classroom teacher. Those participants nominated were…

The volume consists of the proceedings of a meeting of consultants for a project on learning, retention, and transfer in military training. Topics discussed included the following: research strategy, computer-aided instruction, training for vigilance, decision making, pattern recognition, and learning, retention, and transfer of…