A study was conducted to determine the role level of cooperating teachers in decision making in teacher education field experiences and their attitudes about the role they wish to play. Information was gathered using an opinionnaire mailed to 175 cooperating teachers in elementary, secondary, and K-12 education levels involved in the 1976-77…

This study examines and compares the perceptions of educational professionals and non-professional personnel concerning Parent Advisory Council members' degree of participatory decision making in the administration of Title I programs in New York City. The sample of educational professionals consisted of New York City district superintendents,…

Learning objectives and suggested activities, monitoring procedures and resources for the Washington K-3 Small Schools Science Curriculum are based on the rationale that "young children need the opportunity to observe, classify, predict, test ideas again and again in a variety of contexts, ask questions, explain, discuss ideas, fail, and succeed.…

One of a 12-volume set, this guide in language arts offers general program and specific course goals intended to clarify the purposes of education for students, teachers, parents, and the community. These goals provide explicit learning statements, define the nature and function of communication, and describe the values related to language arts.…

Development of environmentally knowledgeable, concerned future citizens is the ultimate goal of the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC), a program to accomplish needed conservation work on public lands while providing gainful employment for males and females aged 15 to 18. Selected work projects contribute to the resource and to the environmental…

To improve shiphandlers' training in three surface warfare officers school courses, a study was designed to develop an integrated, career-structured program. Constructing the integrated system involved three tasks: (1) formulate a career-structured shiphandling training unit to enable preparation of curriculum, lesson guides, and measurement…

The Responsibility for Student Achievement Questionnaire (RSA) was designed to measure elementary or secondary school teachers' beliefs regarding their responsibility for their students' academic successes and failures. The 30 items were constructed in the alternative-weighting format; for each item describing student success or failure, the…

The booklet presents a compilation of informal checklists and inventories to help in assessing the developmental skills of visually handicapped students from birth through senior high school. Part 1, "Informal Assessment of School Age Visually Handicapped Students," covers the following areas: visual functioning; unique academic needs (such as…

PROCEEDINGS FROM THE 1966 SYMPOSIUM ON RESEARCH AND UTILIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOR TEACHING THE DEAF INCLUDE KEYNOTE ADDRESSES AND DISCUSSION PAPERS. A SUMMARY OF THE CONFERENCE'S ACTIVITIES AND PURPOSES IS FOLLOWED BY ROBERT HEINICH'S EXPLANATION OF "APPLICATION OF SYSTEMS CONCEPTS TO INSTRUCTION." DISCUSSION PAPERS ON INSTRUCTIONAL…

These workshop modules are designed to help teachers to develop skills in using role play to learn resolution of personal issues related to sex bias in an atmosphere of group support, and to help their students build a clear perception of their own ability to change their attitudes and behavior. Handouts are provided to be used in the workshop and…

The two chapters of this monograph deal with the issue of the existence of a perceptual grammar that influences reading proficiency, particularly initial reading proficiency. The first chapter indicates the importance of studying reading and writing in terms of readers' and writers' knowledge of visuo-spatial processing rules. It discusses…

This collection of articles invites parents, teachers and other helping professionals to take a new look at the familiar human experiences of time and space. Chapters I, II and III provide systematic analyses of these fundamental phenomena. Chapter I focuses on cultural differences in the experience of time and space. Chapter II describes…

THIS STUDY DEALT WITH ONE OF THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN THE POSSIBLE UNIFICATION OF GENERAL AND COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICES--CAN AND SHOULD THE PRESENT COUNTY EXTENSION DIRECTORS OF THE EXTENSION SERVICE SERVE AS COORDINATORS OF THE TOTAL OFF-CAMPUS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES OF THE UNIVERSITY. THE PROBLEM WAS ONE OF IDENTIFYING THE PERSONAL AND…

Relationships among the positions operating in the student teaching situation can be viewed as an interaction system. Role conflicts, or contradictory role expectations that are held by the student teacher, supervising teacher, college supervisor, and school administrator tend to interfere in their interactive relationships in student teaching…

This study conducted at the University of Kentucky in 1967-68 tests the theory of interaction between discrimination and pronunciation through a field test. After a brief review of previous research in phonemic discrimination as related to foreign language learning, the procedures and results of the test are presented. The text used was "Basic…