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Download full textOxford Hills High School, South Paris, ME. – 1969
The Specialized Language Activities Program (ESEA Title 3 Project) to motivate students to improve their oral language was conducted in an essentially rural section of Maine with an experimental group and a control group of 80 ninth-grade students with an I.Q. range of 85-100 and poor language usage. Sixty-seven percent of them had repeated at…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Experimental Programs, Grade 9, Individual Reading
Pacific Training and Technical Assistance Corp., Berkeley, CA. – 1975
This district-wide evaluation study of the Berkeley Unified School District documents, describes, and analyzes several major components of the system as they existed in the 1974-75 academic year. The process study, presented in these two volumes, documents and describes a set of district elements which differ from one another in degree of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum, Data Collection, Early Childhood Education
O'Donnell, C. Michael P. – 1968
Seventy-eight kindergarten children were randomly placed in four experimental classrooms. Two of the classes were taught with the basal reader approach to reading readiness, and two were taught with the conceptual-language program approach. An extensive pretest battery was given to these children in October 1967. Instruction in the two approaches…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Comparative Analysis
1968
Sponsored by Camp Fire Girls, Inc. and Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., under contract with the United States Department of Labor, this demonstration project was designed to explore the practicability of a program of non-credit college study and work experience to prepare women for administrative positions with social service agencies. Programs were set…
Descriptors: Administration, Age Groups, Career Opportunities, College Programs
Council of Europe, Strasbourg (France). Committee for General and Technical Education. – 1972
This report outlines in detail the proceedings of a symposium held on the integration of audio-visual aids into the teaching of modern languages in the classroom. The following topics were discussed: (1) textbooks, a new look; (2) an audio-visual course, its structure and content; (3) radio and radio-vision, and film and videotape as course…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Conferences, Cooperative Planning
Gothenburg School of Education (Sweden). – 1971
The original objective of the nursery school was that acting in cooperation with the home, it should develop children motorically, intellectually, emotionally, and socially. A comparison of objectives with effects reveals many to be non-existent. A 1966 study of nursery school effects on child development revealed the following breakdown: (1)…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation
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
Avens, Cynthia; Zelley, Richard – 1990
This report summarizes the results of a research study conducted to assess the intellectual development of students in the QUANTA Learning Community at Daytona Beach Community College (DBCC) (Florida) in the 1989-90 academic year. QUANTA is a freshman interdisciplinary program with 75 students and three faculty. Three courses--English, psychology,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Design
Haynes, Bruce – 1980
A description is given of an exemplary program, developed by Claremont Teachers College in West Australia, that involved on-site teacher development to help introduce children in grades 1-4 to historical thinking. The College provided academic staff for the project and assisted teachers by providing advice and materials. The long term objectives…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, College Role, College School Cooperation
Kohl, Herbert R.; Wirtschafter, Zelda Dana – 1968
The Teachers and Writers Collaborative at Teachers College, Columbia University, was established in 1967 to involve teachers, children, and writers in the creation of an English curriculum stimulating to the students. Three interrelated programs were developed: (1) the presence of professional writers in the public school classrooms, (2)…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Creative Writing, Curriculum Development, English Instruction
Baldridge, J. Victor; And Others – 1972
In an effort to put new vigor into the learning situation, an experiential approach to the teaching of social sciences in higher education is offered in this paper. The paper describes how the experiential approach is being used in an academic sociology course at Stanford which is adaptable to a wide variety of social sciences courses. Differing…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Objectives, Discovery Processes
Philadelphia Board of Education, PA. Div. of Instructional Materials. – 1970
The Affective Curriculum Research Project produced five films and two records during a series of experimental summer programs. The films and records form part of a curriculum designed to teach to the concerns of students. The films were an effort to describe the Philadelphia Cooperative Schools Program, to explain its importance, and to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Audiodisc Recordings, Audiovisual Aids, Communication Skills
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. Office of Curriculum Development. – 1970
One of a series, this publication contains forty articles on educational change taking place in Kentucky elementary schools in the areas of school organization, educational practices, experimental projects and programs, and philosophies. A brief description of this series is given in SO 002 584. The publication, covering a wide range of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Practices, Elementary Education
Torrance, E. Paul – 1965
The need for rewarding creative thinking is asserted; a plan is proposed for studying evaluation and creative behavior; and measurement of creative behavior is discussed. Three groups of studies are presented. The first set considers the ways the intermediate environment rewards creative behavior; aspects treated include applying principles for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Cultural Differences
