This booklet describes a course on speedbuilding in Spanish shorthand. Topics include a course description, course enrollment guidelines, course content, suggested procedures, strategies, and learning activities; evaluative instruments; and resources for students and teachers. An appendix contains additional information such as a Spanish business…

The goal of the Marin Social Studies Project was to present a relevant and comprehensive design for American social studies education and to serve as a change agent by providing rational and viable alternatives to present practices. This paper documents the development of this curriculum design, defining the purpose of teaching and the nature of…

This guide was prepared to assist elementary teachers in planning and implementing an activity-centered, conceptually-based science program. The guide consists of the following major sections: (1) Point-of-View, which sets forth a description of science, its role in the curriculum, the role of the teacher, and evaluation procedures which are…

This subunit on the foreign policy of the USSR is part of one of four resource units in an eleventh grade area studies course. This subunit begins with a list of objectives, the generalizations, skills, and attitudes to be learned in this section. The materials treat the relations of the USSR with other countries and introduce the USSR's split…

A 34-item questionnaire was sent to 823 junior and community colleges across the nation to collect information about their reading programs. Of the 378 responses, 288 were used in this study. The survey revealed a high degree of similarity within the reading courses at these colleges as illustrated in the following. (1) Students are admitted…

This document on course goals in the social sciences is one part of a critique series dealing with the development and evaluation of course goals in six subject matter areas for grades K-12. The series provides an initial pool of course-level goals that are expected to be of considerable value in assisting educators with goal definition related to…

Some aspects of a grass roots evaluation training program are presented. The program consists of two elements: (1) a series of 11 slide/tape individualized self-paced units, and (2) a six-week summer program. Three points of view on this program are: (1) University graduate programs in quantitative areas are usually consumed by specialists; (2)…

This self-study program for the high-school level contains lessons in the following subjects: Spelling More Endings; Matching Sentence Parts; Using the Right Sentence Connectives; More Ways to Make Sentences Effective; and Last of the Confusing Word Pairs. Each lesson concludes with a Mastery Test to be completed by the student. (DB)

The content is outlined and the terminal and enabling objectives are provided for a curriculum area on military management (see EM 010 429, EM 010 430, EM 010 431, EM 010 456, and EM 010 457), part of an introduction to psychology and leadership course for the United States Naval Academy (see the final reports which summarize the course…

The content is outlined and the terminal and enabling objectives are provided for a curriculum area on morale and esprit de corps (see EM 010 439, EM 010 440, and EM 010 461), part of an introduction to psychology and leadership course for the United States Naval Academy (see the final reports which summarize the course development project, EM 010…

The content is outlined and the terminal and enabling objectives are provided for a curriculum area on personnel evaluation (see EM 010 443 and EM 010 463), part of an introduction to psychology and leadership course for the United States Naval Academy (see the final reports which summarize the course development project, EM 010 418, EM 010 419,…

The content is outlined and the terminal and enabling objectives are provided for a curriculum area on applied leadership (see EM 010 444, EM 010 445, EM 010 446, EM 010 447, EM 010 464, and EM 010 472), part of an introduction to psychology and leadership course for the United States Naval Academy (see the final reports which summarize the course…

In the Quinmester course "Tie it All Together," students read a variety of short expository pieces, discovering inductively the structure of the sentences and paragraphs in the works, and then proceeding to develop their own. The subject matter in regard to sentences includes: word meanings; sentence elements; sentence structure.…

This article is designed to assist planners of inservice programs to broaden the range of courses and other types of activities offered within their system of training. Five basic dimensions of an inservice course must be considered: time, people, form, objectives, and sponsor. These dimensions are expanded into a comprehensive working checklist…

This section describes the first of a three part curriculum in trade electricity-electronics (each part is described in a separate volume). It presents a unit of 6 to 10 weeks duration which develops only those competencies necessary to all electricity or electronics employment. A flow chart indicates how an individual student's program can be…