Gifted pupils differ from their age-mates with respect to development potential, actual competencies, self-regulatory capabilities, and learning styles in one or more domains of competence. The question is how to design and develop education that fits and further supports such characteristics and competencies of gifted pupils. Analysis of various…

The report describes the development of a package of training materials to enable instructional product developers to prepare first-draft materials. Five instructional techniques, derived from laboratory research and selected through a survey of eminent instructional psychologists, comprised the substance of the materials. The techniques were…

A training model developed at the Southwest Area Learning Resources Center, Las Cruces, New Mexico, addresses problems relating to retention of training and offers guidelines to counter these problems. (RAO)

Using the Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) as a model, an instructional program for learning through the viewing of media has been developed. Activities have been designed for before, during, and after viewing. (Author/STS)

Article stresses training in-house personnel for work with computers rather than going outside the company and hiring people with previous skill. (ML)

This paper is a fable for the role of teachers and educational technology. The subject of the fable is a new set of educational techniques called CBT (Cereal Box Technique, or Technology). The story discuses the introduction, implementation, attitudes toward, development of, and teacher uses of CBT under the following headings: Introduction of a…

A discussion of rationale and design of a laboratory for students of social work for which the goal is to describe a training process that may be a beginning of a total program of social work education. (Author)

A discussion of rationale and design of a laboratory for students of social work for which the goal is to describe a training process that may be a beginning of a total program of social work education. (Author)

Reviews both econometric and instructional process models of education and training and suggests future directions for these models. A 44-item bibliography is included. (Author/DN)

This report comprises a collection of summaries of exploratory efforts by college professors at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation member institutions to develop new and better ways of teaching. Usually these are local experiments aimed at improving the conditions for learning in a specific subject-matter area, but many of the procedures…

A needless gap between the work of researchers and the professor in his classroom could be narrowed. (Editor)

Proposes a protocol for interactions between instructional technologists and instructors in extending the application of learning technology in higher education. Basic elements of the protocol including a "reinforcer preference procedure" and a "response guidance procedure" are described, and guidelines for their implementation are suggested. (JEG)

The monitorial system of education was the most promising device in the field of primary education at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Its astonishing spread across the five continents represents one of the earliest processes of internationalization in the field of elementary schooling, which has rarely been analysed from the point of view…

Article explains the role of O.F.R.A.T.E.M.E., the variety of its productions and the allocation of its resources to the various levels of schooling. (Author)