An Educational Cooperative is a confederation of school districts which, in concert with an area university and a state department of education, employ media, mobile facilities, and communications technology to change and improve both educational organization and process. This paper details a general model for the development of adapted courses to…

The 79 classroom observation systems covered in this 12-volume anthology (over 3300 pages) were designed to collect data about human interaction. Most of them were designed to focus on behaviors of pupils and teachers in the interaction processes of teaching-learning. Some were specifically designed to collect information in particular kinds of…

Comparisons are made between two introductory German sections at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, one of which had a conventional language laboratory and the other a computer assisted instruction laboratory. A brief description of the instructional arrangements is followed by descriptions of experimental comparisons, making up the…

The papers in this volume, read at the second national TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) conference, are grouped by general subject as follows: (1) TESOL as a Professional Field--C.H. Prator, J.M. Cowan, T.W. Russell, J.E. Alatis; (2) Reports on Special Programs--H. Thompson, A.D. Nance, D. Pantell, P. Rojas, R.F. Robinett,…

An Arab Culture Assimilator, basically a branching type of learning program, was administered to forty-seven subjects in two groups involved in a cross-cultural field study in order to determine the differing effects of varied social reinforcement on learning performance. The conditions of reinforcement were: correct, positive; incorrect,…

Current criticism of curriculum and instruction in American schools has prompted Western Michigan University to institute a group minor in the Integrated Creative Arts for elementary school teachers. The first of six courses in the minor brings insight into man's creative nature and stimulates personal discovery in students. Four successive…

At the Institut Universitaire de Technologie in Nancy, France, most English language teaching has been organized on a mixed extensive/intensive pattern. As a result of certain negative effects of the established "session intensive," another methodology was tried, called "session libre." This session involved several techniques:…

In an attempt to collect information about pre-kindergarten programs at institutions of higher learning, a random sample of 310 college and university presidents in the United States were asked to respond to a questionnaire. The purposes of the survey were the following: (1) to estimate how many pre-kindergarten programs are sponsored by colleges…

This book is intended to serve as a source of ideas for devising simple scientific activities, investigations, and experiments and for the construction of necessary equipment using available materials. This revision of an earlier edition reflects modern approaches to science teaching at the elementary and secondary school levels. This edition has…

This report begins with a rationale for organizing a mathematics methods course around a laboratory situation. The implementation of one such program is described in detail. Actual in-school work with elementary school children was an integral part of the program. Carefully selected undergraduate mathematics majors were found to be valuable…

The Experimental Manpower Laboratory for Corrections has conducted continuous experimental studies in offender rehabilitation since the lab was created in 1968. The opportunity to incorporate the findings and products from previous studies by developing a behavioral management model was provided in March 1973, when the lab began its Mount Meigs…

Contents of this symposium include the following papers: "Effect of Maternal Protein Malnutrition on Neonatal Lung Development and Mitochondrial Function," E. J. Hawrylewicz, J. Q. Kissane, W. H. Blair and C. A. Heppner; "Effect of the Level of Nutrition on Rates of Cell Proliferation and of RNA and Protein Syntheses in the Rat," L. M. Roeder;…

A description of the Program Assembly and Monitored Execution for Learning Applications (PAMELA) is presented. It is intended for instructors who propose to use the system and for programers who wish to modify it. PAMELA is an interactive system designed to teach the operating principles of the IBM System/360 digital computer at the machine…

Funding for the formation and maintenance of 23 research laboratories and centers has, in the past, come from the USOE, administered by one of its units. Legislation is currently pending before Congress that would create a National Institute of Education and transfer some of the responsibilities, including that of funding work in the laboratories…

This report discusses new staff development techniques -- interaction analysis, microteaching, and clinical supervision -- and describes new technology such as video recorders. Approaching these new techniques descriptively rather than prescriptively, the author discusses the programs of two regional laboratories -- the Far West Laboratory and the…