The book describes over 600 current career guidance methods, some of which have been subjected to rigorous evaluation. Designed to allow quick access to information needed to solve highly specific problems, the book describes important and potentially useful methods applicable to career guidance that are currently in practice or in the…

The issues discussed in this paper center around the recent applications of laboratory-derived behavioral principles and techniques to everyday situations and problems, particularly those concerned with educational practice. A brief review of the ways that behavior modification has been used in education to date is included. Basically, the…

There is a real conflict between "humanism" as a point of view and "accountability" as a process. Most of the "accountability" literature today is characterized by a devotion to measurable ends, an implicit belief that the ends justify the means. The other half of the educational equation has to do with educational…

This monograph is a critique of various aspects of the Mackay Report which investigates religious education in the public schools of Ontario and examines questions of moral development. The author centers his comments upon a fundamental general assumption of the Mackay report, that commonly accepted characteristics of moral reasoning can be…

Nine conference papers focus on objectives, methods, and alternatives in the education of handicapped children. The first paper, by Sidney P. Marland, U. S. Commissioner of Education, reports on progress made towards full educational opportunity for handicapped children. Research design and methodology are discussed in relation to curriculum…

This paper makes an initial effort toward an applied theory of eclecticism by examining different movements and methods of instruction. The two major movements described include a) "deschooling" the society as proposed by Ivan Illich by disorganizing public school organization, and b) personalizing instruction by encouraging the individual needs…

The annotated bibliography on Emotionally Disturbed--Teaching Methods contains approximately 85 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents or journal articles published from 1960 to 1975 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information…

This study examines the present status of broadcast education in colleges and universities and reports the attitudes of broadcasters toward the undergraduate programs offered in 205 colleges and universities. The report is in five parts: (1) a review of the administrative units which house broadcast educational programs, (2) a summary of the…

For detailed information that needs to be retrieved occasionally before being memorized, individualized instruction is the key. Unfortunately, many executives confuse the term with the program instruction which they studied in the early 1960s. Information is provided to help the trainer convince management that self-paced learning succeeds, and…

To investigate the effects of cued speech on speech reception (speechreading), cued and non-cued phrases and sentences were presented at normal and slow rates, with and without hearing aids, to eight profoundly deaf 8- to 12-year-old subjects who had been tested the previous year. (Author/LS)

From her forthcoming history of volunteers in the United States, the author outlines the development of our system of education and the concept of "learning by doing" from the Colonial period to 1900. She describes various organizations and their efforts in many causes, including child and student volunteerism. (MF)

The greater accommodation of mild and moderately retarded children into regular school settings is seen to require changes in general and special education alike. (Author)

Examples of the many ways in which educational media can be used in minority studies, in improving relations between races, and in improving the education of the disadvantaged are cited in order to indicate the value of educational media in these areas. (Author/AM)

Problems which result when a systematic scheme of training is superimposed on organizations which demand work from their learners are shown in the British system where about half of direct patient care in hospitals is provided by nurses in training. Methods are recommended for practical and theoretical training to cover both student and hospital…

A program to increase and encourage literacy in Tanzania is described: traditional stories were related by tribal elders, tape recorded, translated into the national language, printed, and distributed to individuals just learning to read. Cultural relevance of the stories should promote interest in continued reading. (AV)