The reading lab at Ohlone College has developed a comprehensive and unique program which is designed to help students on all levels of ability to become more independent in the learning process. This program or system consists of several interrelated components: eight individualized reading and study skills courses, 81 videotapes, and a 60 page…

Because of the desire to involve students more directly in the learning process, a student's activity book and a teacher's guide were developed to accompany SO 000 572. This guide provides the general framework to be followed in introducing the children to the key economic ideas through the use of activities. It also indicates the relevant…

There are 2 papers combined under this title, the first being specific to the Alaskan and the second to the Lapps of Northern Norway. Language difficulties were cited as being prevalent in both situations. English was reported to be the second language for the Alaskan, while Norwegian (which is completely different from the Lappish language) was…

The State University College at Oswego, N.Y., has developed a multi-media English composition program designed to increase the effectiveness of the teaching of English in colleges and secondary schools, and to provide instructional, clinical, and practical experience for prospective English teachers and liberal arts English majors, while…

This document describes the design, operation, and field-testing of an innovative model for undergraduate teacher education at West Virginia University. Emphasizing the need for students to translate cognitive learning into performance at the time each concept is first acquired, the model incorporates such innovative modes of instruction as the…

The chapters in this yearbook describe some of the experiences the individual authors have had in making and/or using multisensory aids in mathematics instruction. A number of different aids are noted to indicate the range of possibilities. Three more chapters set the stage for the remainder of the book which is divided into the following…

A study was made to determine whether instructional cues presented to the learner as variations of audiovisual and textual information including a cue summation condition (combined textual, pictorial, and auditory cues) can facilitate the achievement of precise instructional objectives. Some 112 education students enrolled in a course on mental…

This compendium is designed as a reference tool for the identification of nonprint educational materials produced by institutional or nonprint agencies. The main body of the compendium lists materials alphabetically by title in six sections: a) audio cassettes, tape reels, phonodiscs; b) games and simulation; c) motion pictures; d) multimedia; e)…

To demonstrate that individualized prescriptive instruction would improve facility in oral language a preprimary class for children three to five years of age was established in Bakersfield, California; and a primary class for children six through eight years of age was established in nearby Shafter. All pupils were of normal intelligence, had no…

The focus of this project was to individualize mathematics instruction for fifth- and sixth-grade students. Tapes and student study sheets were prepared for different ability levels. These materials allowed teachers to place students in a self-instruction package commensurate with the students' ability and allowed students to proceed at their own…

Information about 66 indexes and guides to non-print instructional media is provided. These sourcebooks, all published since 1970, were gathered primarily from a search of Research in Education (RIE), the index to the Educational Resources Information Center's (ERIC) document collection, and were selected as meeting the criteria of…

During Phase I of a two-phase project, 15 OCCUPACS (learning activity packages) were developed, pilot tested in a university laboratory school, field tested in four public school systems, revised, and submitted to professionals for final review. Intended to provide occupational information to children in Grades K-9 at different levels of…

A study team visited nine campuses to observe the degree of functional effectiveness of multimedia classrooms and to consult with the top administrators, department chairmen, instructors, technicians, and students who consistently make use of these facilities. This document provides the resulting recommendations for multimedia classroom use based…

The objective of the study was to determine whether a carefully developed educational television series combined with organized viewing post discussion and specially prepared study materials would have any effect on social attitudes and opinions of participants. Data were obtained from a sample of 360 viewers at 22 posts randomly selected from…

This paper, written by the research historian with the Elementary Economics Project, focuses upon the experience of that project in its attempts to develop new curriculum materials for pupils and teachers. The major point of the project is to integrate history, economics, and geography within multimedia units or modules which can be used…