One hundred items reflecting the values of Latin study include such works as Thorndike's "Mental Discipline in High School Studies" and "Why Study Latin?", a 10-minute film. The major portion of the entries is drawn from periodicals and newsletters. Selections represent a time span of 50 years with a concentration of articles from the 1960's. (RL)

Studies in two areas of college reading research and their implications for secondary reading teachers are discussed: (1) the effectiveness of reading machines and (2) the effectiveness of techniques recommended for student use. Several studies evaluating the effectiveness of reading machines are reviewed, and weaknesses of research in this area…

Continuing education of the clergy includes, in addition to theological education, sociocultural disciplines, training in professional skills, and personal development. Institutional provisions are many and varied--theological schools, universities and colleges, conference and study centers, institutes, interseminary centers, denominational…

A booklet of a programmed-instruction type was developed to obtain the measures needed to test Carroll's model of school learning, including ability, aptitude, quality of instruction, opportunity for learning, perserverance, and time criterion. Simple rules in an artificial foreign language were taught by means of the booklet to sixth-grade…

This study asked whether or not points which could add to a student's grade would reinforce studying in high school students. The study was conducted in a tenth grade biology class of 33 college bound, lower-class students. Four additional people were present in the class: two observers and two teacher aides to administer points. To accurately…

This IRCD Bulletin issue contains two papers. One, by Harold L. Cohen, summarizes two of his previously prepared papers in which he discusses his approach to learning behaviors. He describes the use of reinforcements as motivators for academic and social learning at a Federal correctional institution. Cohen states that "The design and use of…

A study was made of problems and characteristics of Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees in North Carolina and recommendations made for program development and research. A surprisingly high number (about 21%) show clear evidence of sufficient ability for completing high school or entering college; 35% are good candidates for manpower training…

This study tested the relationships among attitudes toward a course, instructor credibility, attraction, homophily, immediate recall, and student-teacher interaction. The major question explored how much variance of immediate recall and student-teacher interaction is attributable to course attitudes and instructor valence. Student grade point…

This curriculum guide suggests a flexible program of art for elementary grades. The artwork will reflect the levels of maturity achieved by the students. It is divided into sections on: 1) Developing of Awareness of Self Expression; 2) Organization of the Art Period; 3) Art Materials; 4) Techniques; 5) Motivation; 6) Topics for Motivation; 7)…

The study is the third of a series concerning the function of the U.S. Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) High School General Educational Development (GED) program. Information was sought to enable GED program managers to improve the effectiveness of their programs. Questionnaires were sent to a stratified random sample of 1,000 recent former Army…

This publication is a collection of papers and reports presented at the Fifth Curriculum Research Institute. The articles included reflect the Institute's position which recognizes that a teacher must know the child whom he is to teach; knowing the children's experiential background enables the teacher to alter the sequence of curriculum content…

This guide of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) is meant for the tutor who is engaged in adult education. The first area discussed is the necessity for the tutor to get to know the students, and ways in which this can be accomplished are suggested. The students' motives for attending the class and for learning are to be viewed from the…

This study used 889 eleventh grade students and 70 vocational education students enrolled in cooperative education programs to determine the influence of internal and external control of reinforcement upon participation and learning in vocational education. Resultant findings include: (1) Sex was not a determinant of externality. The…

Mother-child pairs in a small Mexican town and in Los Angeles, California, were observed in two experimental situations in which the mother either controlled the rewards given to the child for success or failure or selected achievement goals for the child. The results of Experiment 1 were that mothers of both groups rewarded their children for…

The Corning Community College, having an open-door admissions policy, has been offering a course in achievement motivation for the past two years. The course, requiring about forty-five hours of participation, was started on an experimental basis with specially selected high-risk entering students during the summer of 1969. The main purposes of…