A computer-based Statistical Program to Assist in Teaching Statistics (SPATS) has been successfully developed to aid the teaching of statistics to undergraduates with business and economics majors. SPATS simplifies the problem of experimentally creating and analyzing a variety of populations and of selecting and analyzing different kinds of random…

In this report, the author attempts to (1) report the findings of an informal research survey concerning the perceptions of a sample of professional and lay personnel in Kentucky in regard to what they believe to be the inhibitors of change in education; and (2) extrapolate the sense of the findings into some generalizations regarding what might…

The study was an experimental investigation of the effects of item difficulty and subject ability on subjects answer-changing behaviors. Subjects were administered an achievement test composed of items at three levels of difficulty via slides, followed by a printed copy of the test. Analyses revealed no effects attributable to subject ability.…

This speech explains education voucher programs and responds to criticisms of such programs. The education voucher system is described as one that questions traditional structures and methods while it equalizes opportunities to purchase education, fosters federally funded and controlled alternative school settings and programs, and gives parents…

Included in this set are the teacher's guide and the four student laboratory manuals for the seventh grade science program, "A Search For Structure." The program has three phases, each consisting of student-centered, investigative activities. There are two subject area options in phase one: option A, Rocks and Minerals; and option B, Insects. The…

A number of instructional variables and their relationship to educational goals is discussed. This relationship is not always readily apparent, particularly when complex learning and many educational goals are involved. Experimentation is often needed to determine the most efficient set of instructional variables to achieve the desired educational…

This revised and expanded version of a similar manual first published in 1969 is designed to acquaint students at both junior and senior levels with some of the problems and effects of air pollution and the practical means of overcoming them. The 38 experiments comprise a group of exercises which can be selected according to the interests of the…

Presented in this work are case studies drawn from developing countries, principally Madagascar and Niger. They are examples of radical alternatives designed to serve a population not served by conventional schools and to convey instruction quite different from what is usually given in schools. In brief, the programs are more production-oriented…

This report provides a critical analysis of the Foundation's program, examining its rationale, implementation, and impact. The Foundation gave access to all correspondence and progress reports relating to the program to an independent evaluation team and facilitated visits to most of the 25 project sites. The first chapter discusses the entry of…

This study discusses the effect of early instruction in French in eight elementary schools on subsequent student achievement at the end of grades 7, 8, and 9. The Common Concepts Foreign Language Test in French was the criterion of achievement for the seventh-grade students. Results give averages, differences, and significance of the differences…

In the study, one of each of pairs of average and high ability eighth-grade classes was designated, by random means, as the experimental class. Students in the experimental classes viewed projected 2 x 2 colored slides which represented sequences of the same laboratory activities as those performed by the manipulative group. All other…

This paper considers the reconstruction of the relationship of social science and education, and examines two main alternatives, first, that efforts to join social science theory and research to education are irrelevant and deleterious--a position which is discussed, analyzed, and refuted-- and second, as purported by the authors, that social…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a book in which the author sums up her research on the problem of training and transfering various types of mental activity. The second part of the book deals with one of the most important problems of mental development, that of the evidences and conditions of…

A laboratory experiment was conducted with 28 Black and white, male and female Educators in dyadic interaction with a B/w, M/F stranger of fixed location, position, and gaze. Race and sex of stranger influenced Educator-set impersonator distance, gaze and bodily orientation in a one-minute encounter as hypothesized. If many school personnel do…

The verbal discrimination learning of elementary school children was assessed in two experiments. In both experiments, Ss were given either regular discrimination learning instructions (control), instructions to pronounce the correct pair member aloud three times during study trials (vocalization), or instructions to generate a visual image of the…