Developed by the National Institute of Mental Health, this booklet offers a programed instruction course on drugs and their effects. The purpose of the text is to learn about specific drugs which are currently being used and abused by a large group of people in our society. Narcotics, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, and marihuana are…

Designed to measure skills involving latitude and longitude, this is a self-administering linear program for junior-high geography students. Students progress through 59 pages of fill-in-the-blank items, accompanied by appropriate line drawings, for which the correct answers are given below each question. Following the method of programmed…

The programmed course outline for an American government course is designed to help students understand the electoral college. The outline contains questions and answers for the students taking the programmed course. Students are directed to reply to each of the 37 questions before looking at the answer printed immediately below the question. If…

Defines programed instruction, describes how it works, and tells journalism teachers how to obtain such materials on news writing, copy editing, and reporting. (RB)

The comparative effectiveness of introducing economic concepts to students of different levels of reading comprehension, reading speed, listening comprehension, mental ability, and socioeconomic background through an overhead projector (transparency) presentation and a programed textbook presentation was investigated. A nonequivalent control group…

This discussion guide will help groups of teachers, parents, and high school students learn about the importance of values and the role of education in the study of values. Several techniques are presented by which educators can design classroom experiences around the process of valuing. A major objective of the guide is to assure parents of the…

This is part one of a two-part SMSG Programed Algebra Text for high school students. The general plan of the course is to build upon the student's experience with arithmetic. The student is initially led to extract from his or her experience the fundamental properties of addition and multiplication. The text then introduces negative real numbers…

This is part two of a two-part SMSG Programed Algebra Text for high school students. The general plan of the course is to build upon the student's experience with arithmetic. This part begins with factorization of positive integers and then develops the manipulative skills of fractions, exponents, radicals, and polynomials. The text then moves to…

FIVE DIFFERENT TEACHING STRATEGIES WERE INVESTIGATED IN UTILIZATION OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR FIRST-YEAR ALGEBRA. TEACHERS USED EITHER TRADITIONAL ALGEBRA OR A MODERN MATH PROGRAM. TEACHING CONDITIONS RANGED ON A CONTINUUM FROM RIGID CLASSROOM ORGANIZATION AND TEACHER-CONTROLLED STUDENT PACE TO FLEXIBLE ORGANIZATION AND…

The documents listed in this annotated bibliography on programmed instruction in foreign languages were announced in the monthly ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) publication "Research in Education" during the period from 1967 through March 1971. The selection, which is selective rather than comprehensive, comprises reports on…

This is a response booklet for students using SMSG high school programed text materials. The response sheets are arranged by section and the spaces provided for answers are blocked to correspond to blocks of questions in the text. (MP)

The programed review illustrated in this article was prepared for beginning accounting students to be used as a review of the basic accounting cycle before starting on the first practice set. (Author)

This programed textbook introduces Russian imperfective verbs of motion. The text explains the verbs and includes questions in the text with blanks for the student to fill in. The answers are found on the following pages. The book is devoted primarily to five major Russian verbs of motion (those of locomotion and conveyance) in their determinate…

During the first semester of the 1961-62 school year, students from eleven mathematics classes at seven high schools participated in a test of programed math materials. A control group composed of five classes was taught from a regular text by their math teachers; the experimental group contained six classes which were taught the same content via…