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Thiel, Sandra J. – 1977
Compiled to introduce the dental assisting student to various techniques used in the dental office and to present theoretical information essential for the student's professional development, this laboratory guide consists of three units of instruction. The first unit is an introduction to dental assisting and contains five topics of study. The…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Anatomy, Dental Assistants, Dental Clinics
Fallon, Dennis J., Ed. – 1978
The nature, role, and scope of the dance in the United States is the subject of this collection of articles. The philosophical, historical, socio-cultural, and educational perspectives of dance are considered in the first four chapters. The following five chapters focus primarily on considerations that should improve teaching techniques and…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Expression, Dance, Dance Therapy
Watts, Meredith W. – 1978
This paper reviews previous research and describes a study about the use of psychophysiological indicators (skin conductance response--SCR and heart rate--HR) to measure people's reactions to violence. The review of research describes attempts to gauge the association between people's attitudes, personality, and physiological responses when they…
Descriptors: Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior, Heart Rate
Davis, Richard H., Ed. – 1976
Completely revised and updated since its first edition in 1973, the book explores an even wider range of concerns regarding gerontology. Part 1 presents an overview of the multiple aspects of gerontology, and includes the following chapters: (1) Aging: Prospects and Issues, Richard H. Davis; (2) Aging: The Psychologist's Perspective, James E.…
Descriptors: Age, Anthologies, Bibliographies, Geriatrics
Download full textRoberts, Jean; Huber, Paul – 1970
This report contains estimates of hearing levels for children 6 to 11 years of age in the United States as determined in the second cycle of the Health Examination Survey, conducted during 1963-1965. A probability sample (N=7,119) was selected to represent the 24 million children 6 to 11 years of age in the noninstitutional population. Hearing…
Descriptors: Acoustical Environment, Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Evaluation
Smith, Jack L. – 1973
The nutritional status of Kindergarten children has been studied in relation to performance in behavioral tests and the effects of several types of nutritional intervention in nutrition and behavior have been evaluated. In a study in 1969-70, children who received breakfast and lunch at school showed significant improvement in hemoglobin…
Descriptors: Breakfast Programs, Cognitive Development, Hunger, Individual Development
McGuigan, F. Joseph – 1972
The purpose of this research project is to specify critical events within a person during linguistic processing. The experiments reported here cover such topics as the effects of increased reading rate on covert processes, covert behavior as a direct electro-myographic measure of mediating responses, enhancement of speech perception by…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Electronic Equipment
KOHL, HERBERT R. – 1966
THE EDUCATION AND ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TOTALLY DEAF IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SOCIETY WERE DESCRIBED. DISCUSSED IN DETAIL WERE THE FOLLOWING TOPICS--(1) A DESCRIPTIVE MODEL OF DEAF INDIVIDUALS, (2) EDUCATION OF THE DEAF, (3) SIGN LANGUAGE, AND (4) EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH IN LANGUAGE AND CONCEPT FORMATION. THESE DISCUSSIONS SUGGESTED THAT THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Deafness
Fritze, Paul; Kavnoudias, Helen; Kemm, Robert E.; Williams, Neil – 2001
A Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE) for second year Physiology students, involving timetabled tutorials, a student-friendly learning space, and a variety of computer-based and traditional resources has been previously shown to impact positively on student learning. In the sessions described in this paper, students used a semester-long group…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning
Marcus, Bess H.; Forsyth, LeighAnn H. – 2003
This book describes proven methods for helping people change from inactive to active living. The behavior change methods are useful for healthy adults as well as individuals with chronic physical and psychological conditions. The book describes intervention programs for individuals and groups and for workplace and community settings. Part 1,…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Community Education, Counseling, Exercise Physiology
Arburn, Theresa M.; Bethel, Lowell M. – 1999
Instructors at two-year community colleges are faced with the challenge of helping students learn content knowledge and skills in an abbreviated period of time. In particular, developing students' critical thinking skills is an essential task. This paper reports on a study in which students in a Human Anatomy and Physiology class at a community…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSchaffer, Michael J. – Journal of School Health, 1981
The Prince George's County schools' sex education program for grades K-12 was developed and implemented in the late 1960s and has three focus areas: family life and interpersonal relationships; the physiological and personality changes during puberty; and advanced physiology and psychology of human sexual behavior. The program augments what the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedLeong, Che Kan – Reading Research Quarterly, 1980
Discusses some current concepts of the laterality/reading relationship. An overview of Samuel T. Orton's hypotheses of cerebral dominance and "strephosymbolia" is provided, and both visual half-field and dichotic listening studies as direct, empirical tests of laterality are discussed. (MKM)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cerebral Dominance, Dyslexia, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedDwyer, Terry M.; Fleming, John; Randall, James E.; Coleman, Thomas G. – Advances in Physiology Education, 1997
Presents two examples of laboratory exercises using the World Wide Web for first-year medical students. The first example introduces the physical laws that apply to osmotic, chemical, and electrical gradients and a simulation of the ability of the sodium-potassium pump to establish chemical gradients and maintain cell volume. The second module…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education
Peer reviewedLilienfield, Lawrence S.; Broering, Naomi C. – Advances in Physiology Education, 1994
Describes the use of an interactive multimedia computer program in the study of cardiovascular physiology. Scores on tests given immediately after completion of a two-hour animation program on the Cardiac Cycle and Introduction to Electrocardiography were significantly higher than pretest scores. Students who used the computer program achieved…
Descriptors: Animation, Biological Sciences, Cardiovascular System, Case Studies
