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Download full textHOSFORD, RAY E. – 1968
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO CONDUCT AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF TWO SOCIAL MODEL COUNSELING PROCEDURES WHICH CAN BE USED BY SCHOOL COUNSELORS TO ASSIST SHY ELEMENTARY STUDENTS IN LEARNING HOW TO PARTICIPATE MORE EFFECTIVELY IN CLASS DISCUSSIONS. THE STUDY SOUGHT TO DETERMINE WHICH OF TWO TYPES OF MODEL PRESENTATIONS (FILM OR AUDIOTAPE) WOULD BEST…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Comparative Analysis, Discussion
SHAY, EARL R. – 1963
TO INVESTIGATE THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS ON THE SELF CONCEPT OF PARTICIPATION TRAINING IN GROUP DISCUSSION, 18 INSTITUTIONALIZED MALE ALCOHOLICS (AVERAGE AGE 42.5 YEARS, SCHOOL GRADE ACHIEVEMENT 11.2 YEARS) UNDERWENT THREE HOUR SESSIONS OF GROUP DISCUSSION DURING 12 DAYS IN FEBRUARY 1963, FOLLOWING A CONTROL PERIOD OF 11.8 DAYS. THE BULTER-HAIGH…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Behavior Change, Behavior Rating Scales, Doctoral Dissertations
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1963
TELECLUBS, BECAUSE OF THE NOVELTY OF TELEVISION, WERE SO POPULAR THAT OVERCROWDING, AS WELL AS UNEVEN ATTENDANCE BY CLUB MEMBERS, AFFECTED THE GOAL OF EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF TELECASTS ON CITIZENSHIP. GREATER SUCCESS WAS REALIZED IN BRINGING ABOUT SHIFTS IN INFORMATION THAN IN ATTITUDES, PERHAPS, BECAUSE THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP STARTED AT A HIGHER…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizenship, Community Education, Democratic Values
GARVEY, DALE M.; SEILER, WILLIAM H. – 1966
IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT SIMULATION AS AN INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUE WOULD PRODUCE RESULTS SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER THAN THOSE OBTAINED IN CLASS GROUPINGS WHICH EMPLOYED ONLY LECTURE-DISCUSSION METHODS. FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE 12TH-GRADE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT STUDENTS IN 2 HIGH SCHOOLS IN KANSAS WERE THE SUBJECTS. FIVE CLASSES, 225 STUDENTS, CONSTITUTED THE…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Experimental Groups
Dodge, Gary G.; Pinney, Robert H. – 1969
This report presents an evaluation of a "minicourse" in effective classroom discussion skills designed for teachers working with educationally disadvantaged children in compensatory programs. Seventeen voluntarily participating teachers received four variations of the course. They were pre and posttested on 12 questioning skills…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Nashville - Davidson County Metropolitan Public Schools, TN. – 1980
This guide presents a two phase program for teaching communication skills in the elementary grades. The first phase focuses on teaching the conditions that constitute an effective group and the communications skills necessary for effective group relationships. Definitions of terms are presented to teachers as well as suggestions for teaching and…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Group Behavior, Group Discussion
Sandmann, Lorilee R. – 1980
A two-hour training program for volunteer adult discussion leaders was evaluated in relationship to teaching methods and participant characteristics. The program consisted of a slide/tape presentation, a concept lesson, and a group discussion in which leaders plan a lesson for the local group meeting they are to lead. A literature review examined…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adults, Audiovisual Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Hochberg, Frances – Educators Guide to Media & Methods, 1968
Those high school students who are unmotivated slow-learners living in a "sense-oriented" world respond to instructional units centered around a sense-oriented medium--the motion picture. A unit incorporating "Requiem for a Heavyweight" (a motion picture), "Hurricane's Corner" (an editorial about a fighter), and…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Instruction, Film Study, Films
Evertts, Eldonna L. – Elementary English, 1966
The composition teacher in the primary grades should emphasize content and ideas, not form and properly written expression, to develop the students' interest in writing. By surrounding the students with fine literature, by presenting them with model stories to imitate, and by letting them make up alternate endings and illustrations for stories,…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Teaching, Creative Writing, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Mason, Wendell Dean – 1964
The effect of a group discussion program on the behavior patterns of aged participants was studied in the Indiana Masonic Home. The training program (18 one-hour sessions for six weeks), involved 44 residents (in two group), aged 60-94, in discussions of applying effective learning conditions to adult education programs in homes for the aged. Data…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Diaries, Doctoral Dissertations
McMullen, Harold G. – 1977
For four years Lord Fairfax Community College has conducted voluntary, bi-weekly "Instructional Development Clinic" sessions to provide assistance to individual faculty members asking for help on improving specific course practices. Sessions usually focus on diagnostic, prescriptive, and/or prognostic instructional considerations,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Discussion Groups, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education
Tomlinson-Keasey, C.; And Others – 1978
If academic material is to have the same force as social and personal experience at the college level, then educators need to allow more experiences on the academic road. That experiences are becoming more important is evidenced by the emergence of competency-based programs, experimental teaching programs, cluster colleges, and experiential…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Curriculum
Dixon, Carol N. – 1977
Recent research into the relationship between cultural background and cognitive style has suggested that Mexican-American children typically display a "field-dependent" style as opposed to the "field-independent" style usually exhibited by Anglo children. Teachers of Mexican-American children should consider this difference in developing their…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cross Age Teaching, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Secondary Education
Walling, James Irvin – 1976
This study examines the use of "full processing" as a teaching model in basic speech communicaton courses. Full processing has four sequential components: a theoretically and factually based lecture, a transition discussion period, a simulation game, and a postgame discussion that relates the simulation game to the lecture material. The study's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
Aberdeen Coll. of Education (Scotland). – 1974
The program outlined in this document focuses on the problems and challenges of teaching English to mixed ability classes. The document is divided into three parts. The first part lists the aims and principles guiding the program, while the second (and main) part details the various sections of the program, such as projects, close reading,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Content Area Reading, Creative Dramatics, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
