This volume contains the Viewer's Guide to accompany the ten-part television series component of a multimedia instructional program on relationships among science, technology, and society. The major objective of the program is to make college level course material available to the general public through cooperation of newspapers, public…

To facilitate career education by reducing sex-role stereotyping of occupations, a project developed multi-dimensional packages including toys and teaching modules for three grade levels: preschool (ages 3-4), second grade (ages 7-8), and fourth grade (ages 9-10). Public Action Coalition on Toys (PACT) produced the toys for the project. (Modules…

THE HISTORY OF SMALL SCHOOLS REVEALS THAT EVEN AFTER MASSIVE REDISTRICTING IN THE 1950'S THERE WERE OVER 5000 SMALL HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES WHICH COULD NOT BE REDISTRICTED. MOST OF THESE SCHOOLS WERE FINANCIALLY UNABLE TO PUT MORE MONEY INTO THEIR PROGRAMS, AND AS A RESULT MANY BECAME INVOLVED IN PROJECTS (10 ARE DESCRIBED HERE) WHICH…

TO EXTEND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND SERVICES TO EVERYBODY BECOMES INCREASINGLY MORE IMPORTANT, AND CORRESPONDENCE TEACHING CAN CARRY EDUCATION TO THOSE OTHERWISE OUT OF REACH. CORRESPONDENCE COURSES, WHATEVER THE SUBJECT, MUST GUIDE, AID, TRAIN, AND TEST THE STUDENT. ALTHOUGH THE INSTRUCTOR AND THE STUDENT DO NOT MEET, THEIR WRITTEN EXCHANGE…

A ten year experiment in educational technology sponsored under Title VII of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) demonstrated the feasibility of large-scale educational systems which can extend education to all while permitting the individualization of instruction without significant increase in cost (through television, computer systems,…

Five hundred current innovative media projects in 300 colleges and universities are reported here by faculty members responsible for them; these reports are the basis for state-of-the-art evaluations; and both evaluations and reports are arranged in this Higher Education Media Study by fields; instructional television, mediated self-instruction,…

To extend educational opportunities and services to everybody becomes increasingly more important, and correspondence teaching can carry education to those otherwise out of reach. Correspondence courses, whatever the subject, must guide, aid, train, and test the student. Although the instructor and the student do not meet, their written exchange…

The positive experiences of one disaffected teenager in an Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Program demonstrate the characteristics of an emerging program significantly different from the traditional high school; these characteristics include: a clinical mode of operation based on study and diagnosis of student needs; flexibility;…

The background, design, and results of the impact of an audiovisual-tutorial (AVT) package, Introductory Economic Theory, in introductory economics courses at the community-college level are discussed. A comparison was made of economic understanding and attitudes of 330 students from six similar colleges. One instructor at each school taught both…

The curriculum guide for non-western civilization area studies incorporates these major considerations: 1) the teaching of concepts rather than the accumulation of data, focusing on the development of critical thinking; 2) the development of values, skills, and knowledge needed to cope with the pressing social problems of today including:…

The purpose of this American History survey course is to capitalize upon the knowledge that students may already have of the history of the United States. It is designed to allow a more intensive in-depth study of the nation's development and of our present political and social institutions. Thus, four major themes have been divided into broad…

The introduction to this report traces the history of the Northampton History Project from its inception in the summer of 1967 to its close in 1970. Beginning with half the students of one junior high school and one teacher, the course prepared by the project is now required of all Northampton 8th graders and is taught by four specially trained…

The creation of an 8th-grade American history course and the training of teachers for the course are the goals of this project. Primarily a course in national history, it uses local (Northampton, Mass.) events and people as a key to understanding the larger national picture. The course objectives were to enable students to analyze, interpret, and…

The teacher resource guide for grades K through 12 was developed by a multi ethnic committee of educators to comply with the California Education code. "Instruction in the social sciences shall include the early history of California and a study of the role and contributions of American Negroes, American Indians, Mexicans, and other ethnic…

An autonomous multimedia computer-assisted instruction (CAI) general-education physics course was developed and evaluated at Florida State University (FSU). Based on a one-term conventional lecture course which had been given successfully at FSU for several years, the CAI course made use of an IBM 1500 instructional system to guide the student…