This content analysis schedule for Santa Barbara County Bilingual Project presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their interaction. Information is provided on staff selection and the linguistic background of…

This report contains excerpts and summaries from interviews and papers presented at the visual literacy conference. The interviews are with speakers and in general ask them to expand on an idea presented in their formal talk. For other speeches, the catalog description and/or an abstract is given. Although most of the abstracts are short, lengthy…

Developed as a performance-based plan, the Business Education Learning System (BELS) proposes ways to prepare non-degree students for office occupations and to prepare degree students for teaching and administrative positions. Special features designed into the system include: (1) the Office Service Center (OSC)--an actual campus business operated…

This document lists over 50 research projects on various topics related to linguistics and language. The topics covered are foreign- and native-language instruction, relevant bibliographies, research in contemporary language, communication, textbooks, lexicology, lexicography, linguistics, computational linguistics, machine analysis of language,…

This paper describes the Florida Parent Educator Program as a component of Planned Variation Head Start. The program is currently being implemented in four communities embraces a philosophy of cognitive transactionalism, a philosophy molded by the work of Jean Piaget and others. This philosophy states that "the child is born with a set of…

Explained are the program development, evaluation, validation, and dissemination procedures of Project LIFE (Language Improvement to Facilitate Education), a series of programed instructional materials for language handicapped children, especially hearing impaired children. Project LIFE is said to employ a series of visual perceptual filmstrips…

Teacher and administrator feedback about a study on computer-assisted instruction (CAI) is described in this report. The hypotheses, methodology, and conclusions of the overall program are briefly discussed as they pertain to the feedback aspect. (The CAI program dealt with the effects of choice situations upon the students' engagement in…

This book of readings in social studies makes available several recent developments in this discipline and attempts to summarize some of the projects, monographs, and special programs being conducted at several major curriculum centers. Five facets of the new social studies are examined here. Part One is an overview of the nature and direction of…

The major purpose of this study was to investigate selected personality characteristics of high and low rated, open and traditional classroom teachers who teach economically disadvantaged primary school children. A second purpose of the study was to investigate the assumptions which high and low rated, open and traditional teachers of the poor…

This expanded career education teaching guide for Kindergarten through Grade 14 presents a career development model, rationales for various grade levels, and general goals and concepts for an integrated curriculum. Developed at a federally funded summer workshop by 11 counselors, 76 teachers, resource consultants, and leaders in business and…

This newsletter contains a variety of articles on topics related to teaching English as a second language. The first article provides a general discussion of the development of teaching methods for foreign language instruction and of the needs that must be met for successful language teaching. The second article discusses reading and the need for…

The needs of students in the public schools of Colorado are reviewed in a report that contains two types of information: (1) descriptions of some educational outcomes commonly desired in Colorado, as found in statements of goals and objectives; and (2) descriptions of student performance on the assessment inventory given in the spring of 1971.…

In this monograph, the authors provide a general overview of recent literature on administrator preparation programs. Ten chapters parallel the major interrelated components of an administrator preparation program: Program content, program structure, recruitment and selection, instructional approaches, field-related experiences, student research,…

Member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development have experienced three changes in post-compulsory education over the past two decades: (1) prolonged secondary education has become the experience of a rapidly growing proportion of the population, (2) the proportion, therefore, of the age group entering some form of…

Description of a project involving the use of the video-tape recorder in a beginning course in Japanese focuses on cultural implications of basic unit dialogues. Instant replay, close-up, and other camera techniques allow students to concentrate on cross-cultural phenomena which are normally not perceived without the use of media. General…