This paper reports on an evaluation conducted at Oregon State University in 1971 and 1972 for an introductory college course in environmental studies, "Man and the Environment." The course used integrated content and was team-taught by an inter-disciplinary team using several innovative approaches. Subjects were administered an Environmental…

In order to improve the quality of classroom discussion, Group Interaction Analysis (GIA) is suggested as a means of increasing an individual's awareness of the role he assumes in group discussions. GIA is a systemized technique involving the observation of both beneficial and non-beneficial discussion activities. These activities are: (1) fact…

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of auditory memory tests to predict reading achievement of elementary pupils. Auditory memory was defined as the ability of an individual to reproduce digits, letters, sounds, words, or serial commands, immediately and correctly, in sequential order, after having heard them only once. One hundred…

Presented is a paper related to a Career Exploration Project, supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation. Studied was the effect of an instructional treatment designed to encourage highly qualified females to pursue male-dominated science careers such as medicine and engineering. The study also attempted to ascertain what kinds of…

A sample of 194 high-school students participated in an investigation of Geyer's hypothesis that the reading or prose takes place by sequential acquisition during the fixational pause of the eye. A measure of sequential acquisition time was obtained using a movie which displayed six-letter words one letter at a time: students were asked to write…

This investigation, based on the phenomenological philosophy of Alfred Schutz, was an attempt to determine how people view films by determining the meaning that the action has for them. Twenty college freshmen and sophomores and two seniors viewed the film "Tilt," a production of the National Film Board of Canada. All subjects were asked…

Data were gathered from 18 superintendents, 15 curriculum directors, 16 principals, 92 department heads, and 120 high school teachers in the state of Delaware regarding their perceptions of high school principals' leadership role in the areas of curriculum development and instructional improvement. (Author/MLF)

Described is research using computer techniques to study the brain's perceptual systems in both normal and pathological groups, including hyperactive children (6-12 years old). Reviewed are the early studies of A. Petrie, M. Buchsbaum, and J. Silverman using the electroencephalograph to obtain AER (average evoked response) records of…

This paper discusses three studies which examined the interaction of dimensional dominance with the attentional components of alertness and encoding. In Study I, twenty 6- and 7-year-olds observed thirty 3-second exposures of a color, then participated in a 40-trial choice reaction time task in which the familiarized color and a novel color served…

Fifty-eight undergraduates took part in an experiment evaluating a full-spectrum light closely approximating natural sunlight and a cool-white fluorescent light commonly used in institutional settings. Four classes of a single teaching assistant were used and each class was compared against itself under different lighting conditions. Data were…

The information processing terms "content" and "address" are used to describe structural differences between the constructs of individual identity and identity in the equivalence sense. In both cases a sameness relation is established in spite of specific differences. The resulting constructs of identity are known to be…

This study examined the effect of the student teacher's perception of and preference for the role of the cooperating teacher and the cooperating teacher's perception of his role on the student teacher's effectiveness and satisfaction with the student teaching experience. Subjects were 98 student teachers and 98 cooperating teachers. Responses were…

A study of men nursing students at the University of Iowa identified these problems: failure of the baccalaureate experience to meet vocational expectations, and student criticism of professional education and frustration with the repressive nature of the system. A composite picture of the male student, incorporating the findings, is presented.…

The study was designed to investigate marriage, work, and motherhood role perceptions of 93 adult women who were mostly graduate students at a large urban university. A secondary purpose was to examine the interaction of age-role status variables and role perceptions. (Author)

This article re-examines the role of the pronounceability of visually presented materials, following the idea that intergration on the vocal-auditory level may result from letter combinations that are easy to pronounce. (CLK)