Factors that may affect a medical student's decision to attend basic science lectures were investigated. Basic science faculty members and administrators' views on student lecture attendance were elicited to construct a questionnaire. A total of 103 first-year and 75 second-year medical students attending a Puerto Rican medical school responded to…

An attempt to improve the quality of teaching and learning was made by offering three distinct options to 695 students enrolled in two large classes. The students in nonconventional options tended to have high personality need scores for cognitive structure, achievement, autonomy, and understanding. (Editor/PG)

Two experiments involving 36 deaf students investigated the effect of interpreted versus printed presentation on the recall of thematically relevant material. In Experiment 1, 20 deaf college students received an interpreted, videotaped presentation of one lecture and a printed presentation of a second lecture, with the two lecture topics…

THIS CHINESE LANGUAGE TEXT WAS WRITTEN FOR THE STUDENT WHO HAS COMPLETED TEWKSBURY'S "SPEAK CHINESE" (1948) AND F. WANG'S "CHINESE DIALOGUES" (1953) OR HAS AN EQUIVALENT GRASP OF CHINESE VOCABULARY AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE. THERE ARE TWENTY UNITS IN THIS TEXT, EACH ORGANIZED AROUND A SHORT LECTURE ON CHINA AND THE CULTURE OF THE…

THE UTILITY OF CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION (CCTV) FOR THE TEACHING OF COMPLEX TECHNOLOGICAL MATERIAL IS EXAMINED. THE AUTHOR FEELS THAT MILITARY, SURGICAL, AND DENTAL TRAINING CAN PARTICULARLY BENEFIT FROM CCTV, AND THAT LECTURE DEMONSTRATIONS ARE MOST EFFECTIVELY PRESENTED VIA CCTV. EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS ARE DISCUSSED. (MS)

AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE TO DETERMINE WHETHER AN OVERHEAD PROJECTOR AND TRANSPARENCY SET WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE AND ACCEPTABLE TO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS THAN TIME-PROVEN CHALKBOARD DRAWINGS IN THE TEACHING OF A DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY COURSE. IT WAS FOUND THAT (1) THE LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION PERIOD CAN BE REDUCED TO ALLOW A LONGER SUPERVISED…

IN FALL 1964, PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA'S GENERAL COLLEGE WERE ASSIGNED TO GROUPS FOR 2-DAY ORIENTATION SESSIONS, IN WHICH THEY WERE INTRODUCED TO GENERAL ASPECTS OF THE UNIVERSITY, COMPLETED A TEST BATTERY, PARTICIPATED IN A "COLLEGE MEETING", AND REGISTERED FOR CLASSES. AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP RECEIVED THE…

A study was designed to determine whether different training procedures could change specific behaviors of 39 intern teachers and their pupils in secondary school social studies classes. Interns were randomly assigned to four training groups each of which received typescripts from the 1953 McCarthy investigations which were to be used the next day…

The intent of this study was to assess the content structure of college biology lectures and to determine the extent to which that structure differed in lectures by a given professor and among lectures of different professors. Content structure was based on the amount of contiguity and commonality of verbal elements between pairs of discourse…

This document reports on dissemination lectures that inform the educational research community about the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT). In the first two chapters, the background leading to the dissemination lectures, the procedures used by the project staff to accomplish dissemination objectives, and the methodological procedures…

Robert M. Gagne, Ralph W. Tyler, and Wilbert J. McKeachie, in independently prepared statements made before a summer institute on effective teaching, emphasized that good learning is active rather than passive; stresses the learning of principles; exploits the advantages in newness: exploration of something new, a new practice, a principle learned…