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Gritton, Charles E.; Benitez-Bordon, Ray – Journal of Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1976
An Americanized version of Suggestopedia was used to teach eighth grade science in a public junior high school. The method used waking suggestions and unusual presentation styles to accelerate learning. Available from: Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 2740 Richmond Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50319. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Experimental Programs, Grade 8
Robey, Doris; Burr, Betty – 1975
A survey conducted in 1974 in the Little Rock area revealed there was a demand for office personnel who could take shorthand. There was a definite need for the initiation and implementation of a program at McClellan High School to boost enrollment in shorthand courses. The purpose of this study was to determine if students could acquire a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Experimental Programs, Nontraditional Education, Office Machines
McIntyre, D.; Moodie, A. G. – 1971
This paper evaluates an experimental humanities program combining English and Social Studies materials in which students discussed topics of social concern. Grade distributions, teacher complaints, planned improvements, and responses to a student questionnaire are examined. A copy of the questionnaire is included. (DLG)
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Experimental Curriculum, Experimental Programs, Humanities Instruction
Allen, Sheilah – 1982
An experimental program was undertaken to determine the effects of attitude and reading achievement on writing, to ascertain if intervention could improve writing achievement and attitude, and to predict success in the program on the basis of an attitude inventory that measured need for structure and tolerance of ambiguity. Subjects were 15 boys…
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, Instructional Improvement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
Landa Lev, N. – 1968
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a book dealing with certain problems of modern teaching techniques, general ones on the one hand, and algorithms on the other, viewed from the point of mathematical logic, information theory, psychology and didactics. The concept of teaching is based on a number of…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Algorithms, Educational Research, Experimental Programs
Torres, Don, Ed. – 1970
This resource guide includes bibliographies for the social studies teacher organized around such topics as: definition of the new social studies, instructional objectives, teaching strategies, evaluation; and materials for reference and use in elementary, secondary, and sequential programs. Also provided are directories of projects, information…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Bibliographies, Directories, Educational Objectives
Stafford, James L. – 1963
An experimental team-teaching program in 10th-grade English and social studies at El Rancho High School (Pico Rivera, California) is described in this publication. Included are (1) a report of the summe r planning sessions held voluntarily by interested teachers; (2) topics of lectures, delivered to students, on literature, language, history, an d…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, English Instruction, Experimental Programs
Denver Univ., CO. Center for Teaching International Relations. – 1976
Supplementary teaching activities at the junior- and senior-high school level on issues and topics involving food are provided. Topics include food production and distribution, nutrition, food shortages, food habits, and meal planning. Students are encouraged to develop perspective on global food concerns as well as understand their own family…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Content, Experimental Programs, Food
Denver Univ., CO. Center for Teaching International Relations. – 1976
Supplementary teaching activities at the junior- and senior-high school level on issues and topics involving population factors are provided. Topics include population growth, demography, graphing, population distribution, and population control. Community and national census factors as well as world population are studied. Students are helped to…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Content, Demography, Experimental Programs
Otero, George G. – 1975
This unit examines four topic areas related to police: rules and enforcement, police discretion, variety of police tasks, and police differences among societies as products of certain social pressures. High-school students learn about the police as an institution that responds to social and historical pressures. Students study police systems in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Curriculum
Beishuizen, Jos; Moonen, Jef – 1992
This paper describes the research strategies employed in the Dutch Technology Enriched Schools (TES) project, which was initiated in 1987 to introduce computers into secondary education, to encourage extensive and intensive use of computers in a small number of secondary schools, and to study the effects of computer use on the classroom, the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Experimental Programs
Liddell, Gordon F. – 1975
The first of a two-part discussion of an experimental program involving small group teaching in a mixed-ability secondary English class in Scotland, this report outlines the class organization and management techniques used during the program. It also contains an account of the culminating class activity, a group novel-writing project. Six…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing
Liddell, Gordon F. – 1977
The second of a two-part discussion of an experimental program involving small group teaching in a mixed-ability secondary English class in Scotland, this report extends and investigates more deeply some of the problems not dealt with in the first part of the report. Specifically, it analyzes the modes of assessment possible in this form of class…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Experimental Programs
Joint Council on Economic Education, New York, NY. – 1970
This pamphlet contains selected articles submitted as entries in the 1969 Kazanjian Awards Program for the Teaching of Economics. In these short articles teachers disclose educational strategies in precise step-by-step detail, indicating exactly how they conveyed an economic fact, problem, or concept to their students. The articles are grouped by…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Economics Education
Smith, Gary R. – 1975
Showing a variety of learned behavior about aging, activities in this unit are designed to help high-school students become aware that their views (preconceptions) on aging are not universally held. Objectives of the unit include achievement of global perspective on aging and its problems, understanding of the effects of population growth and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis
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