The purpose of an 8-week summer training institute was to provide 25 competent professional school personnel the necessary methodological skills to initiate, conduct, and report experiments on school learning and instruction. All trainees held administrative posts with responsibilities for curriculum research and development and/or instruction. A…

Intended to evaluate the effectiveness of the "Success in Reading and Writing Program" of the District of Columbia Public Schools, this report was also designed to help teachers make the best use of the program and to provide administrators with information upon which to base decisions concerning its continuation. The introduction…

The paper reports on a study of social studies tests and their relationship to National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) curriculum guidelines. The study had two objectives: (1) derive learning objectives based upon the NCSS Curriculum Guidelines (1971) and the NCSS Curriculum Guidelines for Multiethnic Education (1976), and (2) acquire a…