The self-teaching text in map reading covers those skills needed by readers of military maps and map substitutes. It provides a foundation for personnel whose training program will require specialized or more advanced skills. Practical experience in the field with map and compass should supplement the text. The six parts of the text are meant to…

PRINCIPLES FOR PROGRAMING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR TEACHING MENTAL RETARDATES WERE DEVELOPED FROM CONCEPTS DERIVED FROM A THEORY PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED BY THE AUTHOR. THE THEORY PLACED EMPHASIS ON THE CUEING FUNCTION IN THE STIMULUS CONTROL OF BEHAVIOR. RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE THEORY AND RELATED RESEARCH WERE DESCRIBED. SEPARATE EXPERIMENTS WERE…

Designed to assist in writing scripts for audiovisual productions, this self-instructional program leads the novice through eight considerations of the scripting process: nature of a script, audience, objectives, content outline, treatment, development, storyboard, and further analysis. Each chapter deals with one item relative to certain stated…

HYPOTHESES RELATED TO PROCEDURES PERMITTING STUDENTS TO BRANCH AT THEIR OWN OPTION WERE TESTED. THE FIRST HYPOTHESIS WAS THAT A FIXED-SEQUENCE PROGRAM WOULD BE LESS EFFECTIVE THAN THE SAME ITEMS CAST AS STATEMENTS IN TEXTBOOK FORMAT THROUGH WHICH THE STUDENT COULD SKIP AT HIS OWN OPTION. THE SECOND HYPOTHESIS WAS THAT PERFORMANCE ON A PROGRAM…

Ten experts in the field of programed instruction have contributed articles to this book. The articles are designed to show what programed learning is, where it is currently being used and with what success, and how to make the most effective use of programed materials. They demonstrate the use of programed instruction in spelling, reading, social…

The self-instructional booklet is designed to teach basic concepts of graphical kinematics if a step-by-step procedure is followed through the various frames. Each frame is composed of three main parts: (1) a statement of information, (2) a problem to be solved or a statement to be answered, and (3) the correct response. The answer sheet form and…

Thirty packages, consisting of student handbooks which explain information sources and provide exercises for hands-on experience, were produced by the Traveling Workshops Experiment. Their development, their testing and usage in universities and polytechnics, their advantages, and their adaptability to public and special libraries are discussed.…

A TEACHING MACHINE PRESENTS A SERIES OF PROBLEM MATERIALS TO A STUDENT, REQUIRES AN OVERT BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE, AND PROVIDES RESULTS OF THE BEHAVIOR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE RESPONSE. THERE WERE EIGHT GROUPS OF 10 JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO WERE EXPERIMENTALLY TRAINED WITH MANUALLY CONTROLLED TEACHING MACHINES, EACH GROUP WAS TAUGHT WITH A…

THE RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS CONDUCTED DURING THE PAST 6 YEARS IN SELF-INSTRUCTION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES HAVE LED RESEARCHERS TO CONCLUDE THAT TOTAL PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION SEEMS PRODUCTIVE ONLY IN CASES WHERE THE TERMINAL BEHAVIOR TO BE ACHIEVED IS VERY LIMITED. EXPERIMENTS HAVE SHOWN THAT IT IS MOST USEFUL IN MODULES AT EARLY LEVELS FOR TEACHING…

THIS PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION TEXT WAS DEVELOPED FOR USE IN AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY. APPROXIMATELY 600 INSTRUCTIONAL STEPS PRESENT THEORY ON ELECTRIC CIRCUITS, ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS, AND RADIO CIRCUITS. EACH STEP REQUIRES THE COMPLETION OF A STATEMENT WITH AT LEAST ONE WRITTEN ANSWER. THE LABORATORY EXERCISES WHICH ACCOMPANY THIS TEXT HAVE THE…

This is the second in a series of reports on research in programed language learning at the college level. (See "Observations on the Use of Three Self-Instructional Programed Foreign Language Courses," by Saltzman, et al, in AV Communication Review, Vol. XIII, No. 1, 1965.) The research considers these questions--(1) How do students perform over a…

Using an accompanying, specified film that consists of 10-second pictures separated by blanks, the learner can, with the 203-step, self-correcting questions and answers provided in this program, come to understand the fundamentals of lighting in photography. The learner should, by the end of the program, be able to describe and identify the…

Summarizes research results from an international study investigating which children benefit from working with self-learning kits and under what conditions. (JM)

RESEARCH IN PROGRAMMED LEARNING REVEALS THAT IT IS USUALLY NO MORE EFFICIENT THAN THE USUAL STUDY-READING, AND IS ALWAYS MORE CLUMSY AND EXPENSIVE. TRIAL OF AN ALTERNATE AUTOINSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURE IS REPORTED. ISSUES OF LEARNING THEORY AND EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE ARE RAISED. A PROGRAMED SET OF 1110 WORDS WAS CONVERTED TO SIX SUCCINCT PARAGRAPHS…