This student guide contains part one of the first year in the Portland Project, a three-year high school integrated science curriculum sequence. Part one, the first of four parts, involves the student in a series of activities intended to increase his understanding of his perceptual abilities and their limitations. Organization and classification…

The ability of naive listener-judges to recognize the affective state of a speaker on the basis of nonlinguistic auditory cues independent of the verbal content of an utterance has been well established by a large number of studies. This study used artificial stimuli produced by a Moog synthesizer to vary pitch level and variation, amplitude level…

The author points out differences between the historical-critical and the quantitative-empirical methodologies in speech communication. He proposes analysis of postpersuasive discourse as an intermediary ground encompassing these two approaches. Postpersuasive communication is conceptualized as the elements of ethos (credibility) which are…

The major premise of this collection of articles and essays is that successful intercultural communication is a matter of highest importance if man and society are to survive. The purpose of the book is to create a new understanding of intercultural communication and assist the reader in developing his own skills in this area. The book provides…

Guidelines for a program for recruiting distributive education teacher-coordinators are developed in this study. In determining the content of the recruiting program, the study focused on the roles and responsibilities of the various participants in the process: local teacher-coordinators, teacher educators, and state supervisory staff. A…

Data are presented from two experiments investigating whether covert responses can be modified. Imagery was chosen as a target because of its significant role in behavior therapy techniques. Resent evidence on the facilitative effects of imagery in paired-associate learning suggested to the experimenters the use of performance on a…

Presented is a curriculum designed to provide the teacher of the young deaf child with learning disabilities with a description of developmental objectives and methods for fulfilling these objectives in the areas of gross motor development, sensory motor integration, visual analysis, attention and memory, and conceptualization. The objectives are…

A course in performing organization in which pupils develop increasing performance skills individually and in ensemble, with emphasis on stylistic characteristics of the music studied is presented. Course objectives include: (1) The student will determine the basic metric pattern of selected played examples; (2) The student will count and clap the…

In connection with a study on rehabilitation occupations for the disadvantaged and the advantaged, a literature search was conducted to find books, articles, pamphlets, and publications on the use of paraprofessionals. Entries selected for inclusion in the annotated bibliography are categorized and cross-referenced according to: (1) Professional…

The pamphlet focused first on questions concerned with the relative ability of deaf and hearing students to visually process words when presented letter by letter, and with relationships existing among deaf students between the ability to process words presented tachistoscopically, letter by letter, and the ability of the same student to process…

A summer Management Institute supported by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation was held for administrative teams from 20 public and independent junior colleges. The 64 participants explored theories of management relating human behavior and motivation to organizational goals. The results of the Management Style Diagnosis Test, given on the first day,…

The present study examines the relationship between alternation behavior and performance, and in addition, the effects of reinforcement configuration and relevant dimension upon the use of alternation strategies in probability learning. Also investigated is the hypothesis that children's errors at terminal levels of performance in a two-choice…

This listing of sources pertaining to various aspects of visual communication and their instructional implications contains dissertations, journal articles, books, papers and projects. Eighty-two entries through 1972 are organized in seven sections: (1) the process of communication, (2) research design, (3) screen education/ visual literacy:…

Two hundred seven parents of patients at the St. Louis University Orthodontic Clinic chose ideal male and female profiles from groups of five profile drawings ranging from severely retregnathic to severely prognathic. In addition, they completed a self concept questionnaire (Bills Index of Adjustment) and picked from the profile drawings of the…

The article describes a community college program which prepares licensed vocational nurses to become registered nurses. The program stresses recognition of individual student differences and skills, provides individual and group counseling, and promotes understanding of the role change. (MS)