To assist in formulating design for mediated instruction, a series of guidelines were drawn up and validated, based on procedures developed for Project ASERT in Lincoln, Nebraska Public Schools. Eight steps are identified and detailed--design management, identifying target population, discovering learner needs, setting goals, establishing…

A beginning has been made in Europe to put private correspondence schools under state supervision of standards; Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, and Norway have passed legislation to provide for state inspection of teacher qualification, course content, publicity, travelling salesmen, examinations, and costs to students. In some other countries…

This report evaluates the influence of five language programs on the learning of children in year-round Head Start programs. It presents the statistical analysis and design of an investigation conducted in ten classrooms in two sites (Henderson, North Carolina and Vero Beach, Florida). The core of the programs was the Buchanan Readiness in…

This report gives an overall evaluation of the Parent/Child Program of preschool education for 3- to 4-year-olds. The program objectives are: (1) to aid parents to help their children develop a healthy self-concept, (2) to help parents to promote their children's intellectual development through educational toys, (3) to help parents stimulate…

The third in a series of six volumes on leadership training for noncommissioned Army officers (NCOs), this document outlines the training schedule, course organization, field exercises, and lesson plans, with emphasis on such aspects as the supervision and counseling of enlisted men. (See also documents AC 006 904, AC 006 905, AC 006 907, AC 006…

A national fact-finding study on the education of American Indians, with financing under the Basic Research Program of the U. S. Office of Education, resulted from the National Research Conference on Indian Education held at Pennsylvania State University in May of 1967. Indians were involved in planning of the study, and Indian personnel were…

Studies have shown that many approaches developed for work with the disadvantaged work as well with adult students at all levels who are learning a variety of subjects and skills. Some of these techniques--programed instruction, students teaching other students, individualization of instruction with free and low-cost materials--are described in…

This study tested the hypothesis that a 6-month, half-day program of enrichment in language and Piagetian sensorimotor skills tailored to the cognitive-developmental level of infants would accelerate the development of participating infants. The experimental population consisted of 16 12-month-old infants attending enrichment sessions at Syracuse…

The following problems in the field of essay grading have persisted: (1) low reliability of grading, (2) deciding upon elements or variables to consider, and (3) deciding on the weight to assign to each variable. Described are two aspects of a study on essay grading at the high school level in Alberta, Canada: (1) the reliability of scoring…

Using the personal interview technique, the Milwaukee Public Museum has made a tightly controlled statistical analysis of visitor response to a series of variations on a central anthropological theme: concepts versus specimens, extensive versus minimal labeling, many specimens versus a few selected pieces, color versus monochrome presentations.…

Part of continuing Navy research on training and utilizing Group 4 (low ability) personnel, this study investigated the feasibility of teaching such personnel a course in the operation of the AN/PSM-4 multimeter (an electronic measuring device), and evaluate the relative effectiveness of two different instructional methods. The course was given to…

Fifty educable retarded children who were determined to be nonconservers by means of three conservation pretests (discontinuous quantity, correspondence, and continuous quantity) were randomly assigned to one of five treatment groups (discontinuous quantity training, correspondence training, continuous quantity training, control, and control…

The following papers collected in this publication were presented for discussion at the Open Court Editorial Advisory Board Meeting in 1970. "Testing, Grades, Standards" by Jacques Barzun discusses the relationship between these three elements and the process of education and of performance evaluation. In "The Limits of Reform in Education" James…

The report is concerned with the orientation and training provided during a 3-day preservice workshop for 12 selected staff members (teachers and paraprofessionals) of a field unit and an adult basic education demonstration center. General and specific objectives of the workshop are presented, as well as evaluations, summary, and conclusions. The…

Two experiments were conducted, the purpose of which was to investigate the direct effects of questioning. In experiment one, 240 sophomores, juniors, and seniors from a small town high school read one of two versions of a 550-word passage describing the social behavior of the army ant. The subjects then took either a verbatim or paraphrase quiz,…