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Download full textBereiter, Carl; Engelmann, Siegfried – 1966
This experiment was based on the assumption that the academic failure of the disadvantaged or middle class child is due to a failure of instruction and that if above-normal learning schedules were maintained, the second year of an enrichment program would not show the customary drop in gains from the first year. The subjects of this study were 43…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged
Persell, Caroline Hodges – 1973
An experimental sociological research training program at Columbia University is described and analyzed. Two broad objectives of the Columbia Program are defined: (1) to bring sociological perspectives to bear on educational theory and problems, with emphasis on discovering and codifying the methodological approaches most suitable for…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Objectives, Educational Programs, Educational Researchers
Kahler, Alan A. – 1970
The study was designed to test new instructional techniques in vocational agriculture, determine their effectiveness on student achievement, and compare individual and group instructional techniques. Forty-eight randomly selected Iowa high school vocational agriculture programs with enrollments of 35 students or more, were selected for testing the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Control Groups, Conventional Instruction, Educational Media
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
Peer reviewedSmukler, Barbara; Kramer, Deborah – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 1996
Describes a multifaceted intervention program for high-risk nursing students, indicating that it provides reading guides, active learning techniques, and master tutors. Discusses outcomes from the first year of implementation, highlighting positive results for the master tutors, learning contracts, and reading guides. Reviews future program…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Experimental Programs, High Risk Students, Higher Education
Direct linkBaldock, Tom E.; Chanson, Hubert – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2006
This paper describes the pedagogical impact of real-world experimental projects undertaken as part of an advanced undergraduate fluid mechanics subject at an Australian university. The projects have been organized to complement traditional lectures and introduce students to the challenges of professional design, physical modelling, data collection…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Mechanics (Physics), Active Learning, Teaching Methods
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
BURNS, REX S.; JONES, ROBERT C. – 1967
THE RESULTS OF AN EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED AT THE CENTRAL MISSOURI STATE COLLEGE INDICATE THAT IN COMPARISON TO THE CLASSROOM LECTURE APPROACH TO COMPOSITION, THE LECTURE-TUTORIAL METHOD SAVES TIME AND RESULTS IN A SHARPER FOCUS OF SUBJECT MATTER AND A MORE INTENSE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PUPIL AND TEACHER. A CLASS OF 25 STUDENTS WAS GIVEN ONE HOUR PER…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Freshmen, College Instruction, Educational Research
SCHWAGER, SIDNEY – 1967
IN THIS REPORT THE UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS (UFT) ANALYZES SPECIFIC DATA FROM THE CENTER FOR URBAN EDUCATION'S (CUE) NEGATIVE EVALUATION OF NEW YORK CITY'S MORE EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS (MES) PROGRAM AND CHARGES THAT CUE'S CONCLUSIONS ARE INVALID. THE UFT MAINTAINS THAT SINCE 18 OF THE 21 MES WERE FORMER SPECIAL SERVICE (SS) SCHOOLS, CUE SHOULD HAVE…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Arithmetic, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups
McKinney, James D.; And Others – 1973
The report assesses the impact of career awareness-oriented dramatic play procedures in elementary school children. A sample of 90 second graders from North Carolina (66 from open classrooms and 24 from self-contained classrooms), who participated in a dramatic play program in which they constructed a model community in the classroom, was compared…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Classrooms, Data Analysis
Clark, Christopher M.; And Others – 1976
This experiment on teacher effectiveness focuses on the causal effects of teacher behavior within the classroom recitation. Each of four teachers used one of eight treatments in teaching an ecology course to eight sixth-grade groups. The treatments differed at two levels of teacher structuring, soliciting, and reacting. High structuring consisted…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Tests, Educational Research, Educational Strategies
Whitehead, Graham – 1978
Teaching enquiry methods, that is, skills concerned with constructing knowledge from available information and searching for new information, is the subject of this study, which provides a background to the subject as well as a review of research. The study sought to answer the question of whether problem-solving performances of primary school…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Educational Research
COULSON, JOHN E. – 1967
AN INSTRUCTIONAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IS DESCRIBED AS AN INTERIM APPROACH TOWARD WIDESPREAD ADOPTION OF COMPUTER-BASED INSTRUCTION. AN EXPERIMENTAL PROTOTYPE OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IS BEING DEVELOPED BY SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION UNDER A CONTRACT FROM THE SOUTHWEST REGIONAL LABORATORY FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. IT…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Objectives, Educational Technology, Electronic Equipment
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
