Address delivered at the Special Education Workshop at Virginia State College, Norfolk, Virginia, July 19, 1968.

A study of the effect of an "incremental" version of a generative rhetoric approach to writing instruction was conducted to determine whether such an approach would increase students' syntactic complexity. Ninety-eight college students were randomly assigned to one of five experimental or five control sections of a freshman composition…

THE BULLETIN WAS ISSUED TO ASSIST IN PREPARING A COURSE IN LINE WITH COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION BOARD'S ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAM, FOR STUDENTS GIFTED IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ABILITY. THE TEACHER'S PREPARATION SHOULD QUALIFY HIM TO TEACH LITERATURE AND CULTURE ON A COLLEGE LEVEL. HE MUST BE FLUENT IN THE LANGUAGE AND, PREFERABLY, SHOULD HAVE LIVED…

The purpose of a study undertaken by the Center for the Cooperative Study of Instruction was to learn if a set of instructions could be prepared for students of composition which would indicate in behavioral terms what kind of writing was expected of them. These instructions, called "cognitive maps" consisted of a strategy and an exemplar which…

Research suggests that basic writers are willing to edit but reluctant to revise their writing. In other words, they make surface-level changes to grammar, spelling, and punctuation but tend not to re-conceive content, structure, style, and cohesion. This paper argues that we need more instructional strategies that will help students understand…

Paper presented to the staff of the English Language Branch--Defense Language Institute; Lockland Air Force Base, Lockland, Texas, 1973. (HW)

Describes some of the general principles involved in the planning of a teaching sequence. Discusses in more detail one example of a complete syllabus including major concepts and experiments. (Author/TS)

Two game concepts, "frame games" and "game chains," are described, with suggestions of how they can be used to build effective, interactive teaching and learning situations. The frame game approach is based on applying selected teaching strategies in diverse settings, while game chains link frame games in a learning sequence. (FG)

The author discusses practical considerations of teaching linoleum block printing in the elementary grades (tool use, materials, motivation) and outlines a sequence of design concepts in this area for the primary, intermediate and junior high grades. A short list of books and audiovisual aids is appended. (SJL)

We tested a theoretical model that hypothesized relationships between several variables from input, process and product in an educational setting, from the university student's perspective, using structural equation modeling. In order to carry out the analysis, we measured in sequential order the input (referring to students' personal…

The DNA triplet code also functions as a binary code. Because double-ring compounds cannot bind to double-ring compounds in the DNA code, the sequence of bases classified simply as purines or pyrimidines can encode for smaller groups of possible amino acids. This is an intuitive approach to teaching the DNA code. (Contains 6 figures.)

Research in secondary school composition instruction indicates that (1) emphasis on writing for the teacher-as-examiner is prevalent, (2) prewriting activities are limited, (3) there is little discussion of approaches to the topic or what information should be included, and (4) activities to help students while they are writing are almost…

A journal-based college composition program has been developed that links journal writing to the development of competence in more formal writing. Students write both free choice and assigned entries, and their entries become the basis of all the themes they write; in-class assignments focus on the improvement of specific aspects of the journal…

The purposes of this study were to analyze questions used in the teaching of non-narrative poetry and to ascertain whether it is possible to establish any generally useful, basic pattern of question asking that would provide the student some fundamental guidelines for the study of this type of literature. First, a detailed examination of Robert…

Suggests a proper sequencing of learning activities in science teaching with the textbook used after child's completion of inquiry and acquisition of big ideas.'' (CC)