The handbooks in the Office of Education State Educational Records and Reports series have been designed to facilitate the collection and maintenance of data for decisionmaking at the local level and the reporting of educational information to others. Described first in this publication is a program structure for a local education agency which…

The level of abstraction of the message and the educational effects of five media presentations (Print, verbal sound, print/pictures, print/verbal sound, and pictures/verbal sound) were experimentally investigated. The media components were presented singly or in combination to 6th grade students in a uniformly controlled consistent environment.…

The paper provides up-to-date factual information for first and second language acquisition and bilingualism for administrators, teaching staff, parents, students, and others concerned with this subject. The overview of present educational theories, research and development, practices, and legislation in the areas of language acquisition and…

A description is provided of the work accomplished in the course of a Title III funded project at the Pueblo Elementary School in Scottsdale, Arizona. Part I of the report describes the function of the instructional materials center in a school with an open-class learning center design. Part II deals with the coding system created to retrieve…

This paper presents a method for the development of a rating or classification system for assessing the performance of schools within a local school system. It is designed as a tool to improve local school management and to raise the level of dialogue between school officials and the public. Since it may be misleading to compare the performance of…

The history of ability grouping, especially since 1920, is reviewed and three recent surveys on its use are described. Current data was collected from school officials in all states concerning: the grade levels at which grouping is used; the length of time it has been used; the bases on which students are assigned to groups; the number of students…

Evaluation of an individual's progress in an academic or training program requires evaluation of his achievement of a collection of behavioral objectives. The nature of the terminal behavior often imposes a hierarchy on the enabling and entering behaviors that can be used to lend additional meaning to classification of the learner's performance,…

The possible usefulness of computer poetry is concerned with what the programmer can learn about language, about poetry, and about poets. The problems in designing computer programs to construct poetry include considerations in generating well-formed sentences which have the added restrictions that poetry requires: meter, rhyme, logic, diction,…

This handbook serves as an introduction to the study of children's language development and as a supplementary aid in the training of research workers in the field of children's language learning. As a teaching aid, it is suggested this work be used with a film entitled "Psycholinquistic Research Techniques: Children's Language." Major chapters…

Findings of a four-part project undertaken to study the historical and philosophic dimensions of adult education within the Roman Catholic Church are summarized. The four parts of the study are as follows: Part I. Background and History of Roman Catholic Adult Education (1. An Overview of Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic Adult Education; 2.…

The emphasis in this study is on the development of a diagnostic measurement model for instruction. The content used was junior high science, but the content and subjects were used primarily as a means to an end. The model represents an attempt to incorporate Gagne's learning taxonomy into Tyler's model of the educational act. Focus is on the…

Presented is a position paper concerning commitments and responsibilities to exceptional children which was prepared by the Policies Commission at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), and a policy statement on governmental affairs developed by the CEC Legislative Committee. A brief policy statement follows discussion of each of the…

A number of research problems have hindered the study of Australian aboriginal languages which are spoken by a steadily decreasing and vanishing population. Such research has been plagued by misunderstanding and poor communication between linguists and the remaining informants. Much of the previous research, because of funding policies, has been…

Developed by pooling the knowledge and experience of business education teachers throughout the state, this program guide and manual should be useful to both teachers and administrators in articulating and operating business education programs. Major sections concern: (1) a capsule history of Iowa business education, (2) philosophy and related…

This document provides a classification of educational objectives in the cognitive and affective domains, defines each objective, and offers examples. Special emphasis is not given to any particular objective; it is left to the teachers in a given program to determine the specific objectives to be derived in each learning experience within the…