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Philadelphia Community Coll., PA. – 1978
The items in this report represent the proceedings of a national conference that explored ways in which community colleges can serve the nontraditional student. The report contains the program for the two-day conference, a list of the participants and their addresses, and excerpts from speeches on the following topics: assessing past performance…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Community Colleges, Educationally Disadvantaged
Shabat, Oscar E.; And Others – 1980
The proceedings of the First Mastery Learning Conference begins with Rocco Caponigri's introduction and Oscar E. Shabat's discussion of the importance of mastery learning to community colleges as they attempt to educate large numbers of underprepared students. Next, Benjamin S. Bloom examines the shifting emphasis in education research from…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Community Colleges, Educational Research, Formative Evaluation
Regian, J. Wesley, Ed.; Shute, Valerie J., Ed. – 1992
This book contains a snapshot of state-of-the-art research on the design of automated instructional systems. Selected cognitive psychologists were asked to describe their approach to instruction and cognitive diagnosis, the theoretical basis of the approach, its utility and applicability, and the knowledge engineering or task analysis methods…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Assisted Instruction
Bossone, Richard M., Ed. – 1982
These proceedings contain three reports of improvement programs designed to help students to succeed in large urban school systems. In the first report, the "Achievement Goals Program" (AGP) is described as a highly structured, objective based instructional program in reading and mathematics carried out for the purpose of reducing racial…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs
Peer reviewedBaird, William E. – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1986
Contains six abstracts of papers from the National Educational Computing Conference of 1986. Topics of the papers focus on the effects of teacher involvement, computer programs in applied mathematics and physics, microcomputer labs in science, graphing misconceptions, science simulations, and mastery learning with computers. (ML)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Computer Science Education, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1991
The Advertising section of the proceedings contains the following 11 papers: "How to Systematically Design and Develop a Mastery-Based Advertising Skills Course" (Elaine L. Wagner and Andrea T. Smith); "Tolerance for Television Advertising" (W. James Potter and Walter Gantz); "Quenching the Thirst for Personal Information:…
Descriptors: Advertising, Audience Response, College Faculty, Course Descriptions
Clancy, Peter L. – 1982
Students at 19 Michigan elementary schools in 17 districts showed a dramatic improvement in Michigan Educational Assessment Program test score results from 1976 to 1979. A three-pronged effort to identify the factors associated with the improvement involved a computer analysis of school demographic data, field interviews, and a symposium of 107…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Assessment
Download full textMoeller, Adeiline J., Ed.; Theiler, Janine, Ed.; Betta, Silvia, Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2008
The 2008 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, a joint conference with the Michigan World Language Association, focused on learning about the diverse backgrounds and needs of today's students and discovering new ways to help them succeed in reaching the goal of language proficiency. A wide variety of workshops and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, French
Shabat, Oscar E.; And Others – 1981
Selected papers presented at the Second Annual Mastery Learning Conference are summarized in this proceedings. First, Oscar Shabat stresses the roles of general education and basic skills instruction in the community college and introduces mastery learning and the conference. Next, Rocco Caponigri reviews the theoretical background of mastery…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Instruction, Behavioral Objectives, College Instruction, Community Colleges
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Equal Educational Opportunities. – 1984
This report summarizes the proceedings of an Ohio Department of Education conference convened to describe, define, and develop activities that would provide a working model of the school principal as the instructional leader. First, the results of a pre-conference principals' needs assessment, which formed the basis for conference planning and…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement
Douglass, Malcolm P., Ed. – 1983
The continuing theme of these conferences is: "Reading, the Process of Creating Meaning for Sensed Stimuli." The special theme of this 1983 anniversary conference is: "Reading Reading: 50th Anniversary Perspectives." The proceedings in this yearbook reflect the retrospective and prospective emphasis of the special theme.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Critical Reading, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Prentis, Catherine, Ed. – 1981
The program of the 1981 Appalachia Educational Laboratory Forum was based on the theme of improving schools and using research and development. The first section of this report contains summaries of presentations made at the forum. In the first presentation, a discussion is given on outcome-based education, the merits and drawbacks of mastery…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Education
Lee, Howard D. – 1990
This document contains materials from a workshop on Elements of Instruction Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE). The model used in the workshop was based on the teaching model resulting from the work of Madeline Hunter. The workshop consisted of formal presentations, opportunity for participants to put the content into their own…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques
Enright, Gwyn, Ed. – 1977
Drawn from papers accepted for presentation at a conference focusing on personalizing college-level learning skills programs, the 35 articles in this collection are arranged into five categories: investigations, program descriptions, program prescriptions, applications, and reactions and interactions. Specific topics discussed in the articles…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Content Area Reading, Developmental Programs, Higher Education
Khalil, Edna M., Ed. – 1989
This report of a conference on guidance school education contains papers from plenary and concurrent sessions, information on the Council of Graduate Schools' (CGS) business meeting, and on awareds presentations, copies of the CGS constitution and bylaws, and a CGS member institution list. Papers and presenters are as follows: "The Graduate…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Allied Health Occupations Education, Dental Schools, Doctoral Degrees
