A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS WAS CONDUCTED TO TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TELEVISED INSTRUCTION. THIS REPORT, THE FIRST IN A SERIES, STUDIES THE APPLICATION OF PRETESTING PROCEDURES TO BROADCAST TELEVISION. EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISONS WERE MADE OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A PREVIEW VERSION OF A TELEVISED LESSON AND ITS REVISED COUNTERPART. THE EXPERIMENT WAS…

The college-level computer assisted instruction (CAI) courses, one in French, the other in Remedial English, were the bases for the data presented here. Each CAI course is briefly outlines. A summary is then presented of the students' completion records and attitude changes. In the case of the Remedial English course, it is noted that these…

This report discusses 2 studies that examine reaction to the killing of 4 students by National Guardsmen at Kent State University, Ohio, on May 4, 1970. The first study was designed to investigate the segmentation of the public in terms of its reaction to the Kent State incident. Three groups, or attitudinal types: radicalized students, tolerant,…

The hypothesis that teacher reinforcement behavior has a different effect on "internal" children (those who believe that they can affect their environment through their own behavior) than on "external" children (those who feel controlled by fate or influences much stronger than themselves) is the basis of this study. This hypothesis is derived…

Some studies conducted by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) have revealed possible causes of the uprisings on college and university campuses, and others suggest possible remedies for the agony experienced at many institutions. A survey of 5,200 college and university trustees shows that the ambivalence in their beliefs and attitudes, and the…

The American Association of Junior Colleges sponsored "A Seminar for Great Teachers" during August 1969. The participants were divided into groups that met three times each day for nine days. This report describes the discussions of group F. The 11 members were teachers of various subjects at different colleges. All were concerned with holding the…

Studies have demonstrated that students learn to seek pleasurable learning situations and learn to avoid painful ones; however, when they do not have sufficient information at their disposal to determine whether or not their behavior will have a pleasurable or painful outcome, they experience a psychological conflict we are calling…

The development of computer-assisted instructional lessons on the following three topics is discussed: 1) the mole concept and chemical formulas, 2) concentration of solutions and quantities from chemical equations, and 3) balancing equations for oxidation-reduction reactions. Emphasis was placed on developing computer routines which interpret…

The author describes ways to test for relationships between student achievement and higher cognitive questions asked by the teacher. He details methods for evaluating student responses in terms of answer quality and presents some of his own preliminary research on student response length. Higher cognitive questions, he hypothesizes, elicit and…

Contrary to much published opinion, little evidence was found of decrement in the performance of students in a University lecture. Decrement was measured by the percentage of "ideal" notes recorded by students in the course of an expository lecture. (Editor)

Teachers participating in an inservice class report their own personal responses to the use of poetry in the classroom.

Describes how to develop a Likert-scale instrument for determining affective response to poetry on five levels. (DD)

Feedback does not facilitate retention if it is highly available to the learner before he responds, or if the learner finds the material very difficult. Varying the amount of time passed between response and feedback--the Delay Retention Effect--is discussed. (MV)

Finds that student journalists reacted differently to--and wrote different stories about--a woman news source who spoke about a rape crisis center, depending on whether they had been told that the woman was herself a rape victim. (GW)