This paper focuses on parents' play routines as an aspect of home intervention programming and explains the effects of such routines on the imaginative play behaviors of developmentally delayed youngsters. The paper is divided into four main sections. First, in order to understand the potential effects of parent play routines, the contributions of…

Elementary school teachers were trained in specific classroom behaviors designed to improve student achievement. Effects of the training were measured primarily in terms of academic outcomes for underachievers; outcomes for normal and overachieving students were also examined. In addition to a focus upon achievement, the study was also designed to…

This study examined the effects of an advance organizer and background experience in science on the attainment of science concepts. Ninth-grade earth science students (N=90) were given the Dubbins Earth Science Test (DEST) and a Science Background Experience Inventory (SBEI) developed by the author. They were then placed into high, medium, and low…

Designed for use by Coast Guard course writers, curriculum developers, course coordinators, and instructors as a decision-support system, this publication presents a model that translates the Intraservices Procedures for Instructional Systems Development curriculum design model into materials usable by classroom teachers and students. Although…

A 1979 external evaluation of the Eckerd Wilderness Educational System (a series of 9 residential, therapeutic camps for disturbed youth in 3 eastern states) drew data from 3 sources: records of the first 1,385 youth entered into the camps from 1968 through November 1979, test results from the most recent 157 clients who completed both entry and…

Because most of the approximately 100 stress-challenge programs exclusively serving delinquent youth are funded partially or wholly by public funds and therefore require evaluation, a need exists for a comprehensive model which evaluates not only program outputs, but also program operations and inputs. The feasibility and flexibility of a…

To eliminate maturation as a factor in the pretest-posttest design, pretest scores can be converted to anticipate posttest scores using grade equivalent scores from standardized tests. This conversion, known as historical regression, assumes that without specific intervention, growth will continue at the rate (grade equivalents per year of…

A rationale is presented for the "control items" technique, the technique of using control (nonexperimental) test items to provide a baseline for estimating the effects indicated by scores on the experimental test items. For evaluating the effects of a curriculum, a test can be made of two types of items--ones that test explicit program objectives…

This two-part learning module is designed to assist instructors in writing behavioral course objectives that will provide their students with precise statements of what is expected of them in terms of high-level cognitive learning, that is, learning that involves analysis or judgement. Part I of the module defines behavioral objectives as those…

The short-term effect of feedback of student ratings of college teachers was investigated, but no significant differences were found. Ratings of 84 teachers, in three experimental groups and a control group, were obtained in the third week of the fall semester and again during the final week of the same semester. Feedback in the form of a computer…

IN KANSAS CITY, MO., 208 NEGRO FIVE YEAR OLDS WERE STUDIED TO EXAMINE THE INFLUENCE OF HOUSING UPON CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND TO COMPARE THE RELATIVE INFLUENCE OF HOUSING ON HEAD START AND NON-HEAD START CHILDREN. FOUR GROUPS OF 52 CHILDREN EACH INCLUDED (1) HEAD START, PUBLIC HOUSING, (2) HEAD START, SLUM HOUSING, (3) NON-HEAD START, PUBLIC HOUSING,…

A third-party evaluation was designed to document the processes undertaken to implement a Memphis, Tennessee, experience-based career education (EBCE) program. It also intended to assess project effects on student outcomes. Evaluation included pre- and post-testing of a control group and experimental group of tenth grade students enrolled in the…

Exercises and accompanying explanations are provided in a two-part learning module designed to assist instructors in writing behavioral objectives that can be used to measure the attitudinal effects of course material on students. Part I of the module defines behavioral objectives as those which call for specific responses from learners and…

This learning activity package, one of six intended for use in Industrial Cooperative Training Programs, is designed to enable students to understand the basic principles of parliamentary procedure and provide help in conducting a typical Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA) business meeting. (The industrial cooperative training program…

The accuracy with which regression models estimate treatment effects is dependent upon a number of conditions. The stability of the regression line (a function of sample size and correlation between pretest and posttest) is said to be the most important of these conditions. The utility of regression models is proportional to the size of the…