This guidebook is one in the Target Topic Series developed to highlight issues and concerns related to effective community education operation. It is intended for the community educator who is responsible for working with the community education program staff--both paid and volunteer. A pretest covers material discussed in the guidebook. The…

The Elementary Secondary Education Act Title IV-C Bilingual Project instituted in the Detroit (Michigan) Public Schools consisted of two bilingual learning centers at a target school which served 114 students in grades one through five during the 1978-1979 school year. Materials and assistance were also offered to a parochial school. A total of…

PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO EXPLORE THE FEASIBILITY OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC AS AN EXPERIMENTAL TASK TO BE PRESENTED USING PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION ON TEACHING MACHINES, TO DEVELOP A STANDARD PROGRAM AND RELIABLE CRITERION MEASURES OF ITS CONTENT, AND TO INVESTIGATE EFFECTS OF RESPONSE MODE, FEEDBACK, AND PROGRAM CONSTRUCTION ON LEARNING RATE AND ON…

THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF FIVE METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE SPELLING ABILITY OF PUPILS IN GRADES 2 AND 3 WAS DETERMINED. ASSIGNMENTS OF TEACHERS AND CLASSROOMS TO METHOD WERE BASED UPON TEACHER PREFERENCE FOR METHOD, ESTIMATED AVERAGE ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL OF PUPILS IN EACH CLASSROOM, AND RATINGS OF TEACHER QUALITY. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE STUDY A…

The relationship between attitude change, recall of previous attitudes and dissonance between these two perceptions was investigated using 72 female undergraduates randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups. The first group, posttest first, completed a posttest after participation in a group discussion on construction of nuclear power…

Computer assisted test construction (CATC) is a new testing technique that seems to provide ease and flexibility for faculty members and students. The purpose of this paper was to verify that student test scores are not adversely affected by implementation of CATC. Two sections of a basic course in cataloging were tested for one semester. One…

This collection of workshop materials demonstrates how to develop learning modules through examples, illustrations, explanations, case studies, comparisons diagnosis, and prognosis. For the projected workshop, a module is defined as a modularized learning activity package composed of objectives, pretest, learning environments, and posttest. The…

This workbook presents three evaluation exercises that can be used by workshop directors to plan, implement, and evaluate workshops. The first exercise is deemed most helpful when the workshop objectives are only half-formed. Exercise 2, for cases in which workshop participants have been identified, helps the workshop director ensure that the…

A study was conducted to determine: (1) the extent to which changes of self-report scores (between pretest and post-test) on a measure of defensiveness were related to changes of self-report scores (between pretest and post-test) on a measure of self-concept; and (2) if changes of self-report scores on a measure of defensiveness as covariates…

Five models are introduced for the factor analytic treatment of a set of measures obtained for the same sample of persons on two different occasions. The models differ in terms of the assumptions made regarding the constancy of the (1) factor (actually component) score and (2) factor pattern matrices from occasion 1 to 2. Least-squares procedures…

A study of sixty third-grade students at Henry Barnard School, Providence, Rhode Island, concluded that an elementary industrial arts program contributes to the career awareness of such students but that mental ability has a greater influence than instructional strategy. (MF)

Experience with pretests at Wright State University School of Medicine indicates that they serve as a preinstructional strategy that increases motivation, enthusiasm, and acceptance of the program. Pretests possibly enhance cognitive learning during the ensuing program, as well as improve the attitudinal set. (Author/LBH)

Preschoolers were assigned to experimental and control groups to investigate whether they could learn novel words when viewing television and whether the learning was influenced by age or type of word. (PCB)