Author cites five areas of educational technology where progress has been and is being made. These are: clarifying the process, increasing labor specialization, improving educational evaluation, clarifying systems intentions and shifting the factors of production. Article concludes with a comparison of the educational technology approach with the…

This study was intended to investigate whether junior high school students would develop broad stylistic concepts more efficiently through exposure to exclusively positive exemplars or through exposure to a combination of positive and negative exemplars. (Author/CB)

See FL 502 553 for companion article. (RS)

Analyzes and compares diagnoses made over a five-year period to determine whether differences between diagnoses of students and those of specialists justified further verification by specialized staff, and whether the proportion of such differences had changed with time because of more effective teaching. (WM)

The study examined the effects of three self-instructional approaches of teaching diagnostic problem-solving. Two of the approaches attempted to stimulate student-equipment interaction via programmed and text instruction while a third approach utilized actual equipment. The equipment approach was superior to non-equipment simulation approaches.…

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to investigate the effects of (1) guided discovery versus didactic methods of instruction upon the acquisition of certain inquiry skills and factual-conceptual achievement, (2) the interaction of the methods variable with selected learner variables. The sample consisted of 140…

Teachers can exploit the contrast between the 1920's and the 1930's as a means for helping students understand the latter decade. Discusses the political, economic, social, and cultural differences between the two decades. Case studies and supplementary reading materials are suggested. (CS)

Investigates the extent to which individually guided education (IGE) and non-IGE teachers consider student characteristics when making instructional decisions. (Author/MP)

Reviews research suggesting that there is no one method that is best for teaching sight words to every child. (FL)

Five approaches for teaching multiplication of negative numbers are reviewed. A study comparing the effectiveness of rote, induction, deduction, and modeling approaches found no significant differences. (MP)

Tracking down the similarities between two beloved stories (the Wizard of Oz and Star Wars) led to a critical analysis of other tales. Through this process, students discovered why some books are classics, became more discriminating readers, and applied what they learned to their own creative writing. (Author/KC)

Suggests the comparative use of Hawthorne's story, "The Minister's Black Veil," and the Johnny Cash song, "The Man in Black," for helping students learn to judge texts, explore symbolism, and discover the differences between different kinds of literature. (TJ)

The experiment studied the differential effectiveness of two methods of blending instruction on the ability of prereaders to decode synthetic words. Findings indicated the superiority of auditory-visual training over auditory, with both methods significantly superior to practice on sound-letter association (the control group task). (RC)

The study obtained evidence regarding the learning condition of chaining. The experimental population was 22 female industrial education students at the University of Maryland. A major contribution of the study was the recognition of the backward chaining principle (reversed stimulus-response links) as a meaningful teaching technique. (Author/BP)