A study was undertaken to determine whether four commercially prepared language programs would bring about better gains in the language achievement of disadvantaged preschool children than would activities planned by teachers themselves. The four commercial programs included the Peabody Language Development Kit: Preschool (PLDK-P); the Ginn…

The long-term sustained impact of the Saginaw School District Chapter I Supplemental Teacher Participation (STP) program on third grade students during the 1979-80 school year was examined. A total of 256 students were classified into one of four categories: 1 year, 2 year continuous, 3 year continuous, and 2 year interrupted. Two different…

One in a series of core instructional materials for apprentices to use during the first or second years of apprenticeship-related subjects training, this booklet deals with basic mathematics. The first section consists of an outline of the content and scope of the core materials as well as a self-assessment pretest. Covered in the three…

The extent to which advance organizer instruction about social behavior could affect preschool children's social problem-solving abilities was investigated. The study followed a pretest, training, posttest, and delayed posttest format and included periods of observation of children's spontaneous social behaviors before, immediately following, and…

This study examined input enhancement and second language (L2) vocabulary learning while exploring the role of "distinctiveness," the degree to which an item in the input diverges from the form in which other items in the input are presented, with regard to the nature and direction of the effects of enhancement. In this study,…

This instructional guide was designed to assist educators in teaching the topics of consumer credit and consumer credit protection to secondary and postsecondary students in various economics and business courses, as well as for use in adult and community education courses. The guide contains four sections, which can be used singly or in…

This 46-question multiple choice test deals with the physical and chemical properties of matter, wave motion and types of energy, simple machines, equipment safety and measurement. The test is meant for administration to grade 8 students before and after instruction. Item analysis of the pre- post data are included, as are reliability estimates…

The aim of this study was to show that the superiority of corrected-for-guessing scores over number right scores as true score estimates depends on the ability of examinees to recognize situations where they can eliminate one or more alternatives as incorrect and to omit items where they would only be guessing randomly. Previous investigations…

THIS STUDY IS AN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE AND COMPARE THE STATUS AND DEGREE OF CHANGE IN SELECTED EDUCATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AMONG THREE GROUPS OF CHILDREN WHO ENTERED CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY KINDERGARTEN IN SEPTEMBER 1965. THERE WERE 300 CHILDREN DIVIDED INTO THREE MAJOR GROUPS (1) 102 CHILDREN WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE SUMMER HEAD START PROGRAM, (2) 100…

This study investigates the relationship of teaching strategies emphisizing visual problem solving through the medium of photography to increased visual perceptual levels in second and third grade students. Twenty-five subjects from three classroom groups were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups labeled Perceptual Principles Group…

This composite form for pretest and posttest measures students' knowledge of anthropological concepts, study methods, and words, the Arunta and Kazak tribes, and the American way of life. It is part of the Anthropology Curriculum Project and is designed to be used with curriculum guides for grades 1 and 4 (SO 011 790-795). The test consists of 30…

Six pilot studies were conducted to determine the effects of training on range estimation performance for aerial targets, and to identify some of the relevant variables. Observers were trained to estimate ranges of 350, 400, 800, 1,500, or 2,500 meters. Several variations of range estimation training methods were used, including immediate…

This report presents the results of a two-year project to design, pretest, and revise the Statistical Survey of Elementary Schools, which is intended to provide information on federally funded elementary education programs operating in local public school systems. The report also documents the activities and decisions that brought about these…

This paper describes the proposed Assessment Center at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York. The center is intended to provide statistical and technical support for the Mercy College elementary education, special education, and speech and hearing departments in the areas of student assessment, student guidance, and program evaluation. Evaluation…