This research study is a continuation of the work on Instructional Flexibility Training (IFT) developed by Joyce and Hodges. It attempts to discover if the use of IFT helped student teachers control the flexibility of their teaching styles, whether they could employ a variety of teaching models, and whether the conceptual ability of the teacher…

The rapidly increasing amount of information retrieval experimentation necessitates that considerable attention be paid to the problems of experimental methodology. The authors feel that the generalized and well-known experience in the physical, life and behavioral sciences concerning the role of methodology in scientific research must be applied…

The Personal Beliefs Inventory was used to identify teachers who had strong feelings toward or against the use of experimentation in science classes. Students in the classes of the 16 teachers with the most extreme scores on the Inventory were administered two tests: one class of each teacher was given the Test on Understanding Science and another…

Suggestions for studying the topic of variation of individuals and objects (balls) to help develop elementary school students' measurement, comparison, classification, evaluation, and data collection and recording skills are made. General suggestions of variables that can be investigated are made for the study of human variation. Twelve specific…

This publication of the American Physiological Society provides information about some new classroom experiments and techniques. These are: "Negative Feedback Control in the Blowfly--A Laboratory Exercise,""Demonstration of Various Habitats for Investigating Murine Behavior Patterns," and "Use of Behavioral Objectives and Audio-Visual Tutorial…

Since many acts of aggression in society are more than simply an aggressor-victim encounter, the role played by third person instigated aggression also needs examination. The purpose of this study was to develop a laboratory procedure to systematically investigate instigation. In a competitive reaction time task, high and low Machiavellian Males…

Two major hypotheses were tested in three experiments. The first hypothesis proposed that students can imitate and internalize filmic codes, to be used subsequently as covert schematized mediators. The second hypothesis was that subjects with low relevant aptitude scores would profit more than better able subjects from films which model for them…

A compilation of readings by professional educators on aspects of the Continuing Education Unit, a new measurement concept for noncredit continuing education, is given. An Interim Statement of The National Task Force to Study the Feasibility and Implementation of a Uniform Unit for the Measurement of Non-Credit Continuing Education Programs is…

Described are two hospital-based laboratory exercises which helped students perceive the relationship between the principles of microbiology and the practice of nursing. The exercises involved an environmental study focusing on problems of nosocomial infection and a study of patients hospitalized with infectious diseases. (Author/MS)

Reviews sixty-eight experiments published in various journals in 1973 and 1974 and concludes that communication experimentation may be severely limited by the nature of the subjects studied and the inappropriate handling of experimental reactivity. (MH)

Derives the magnetic field as a function of position between two capacitor plates during discharge with the use of the integral form of Ampere's law and real currents only. The displacement current must be included to obtain the same result for arbitrary choices of contours. (Author/GA)

This study evaluated the applicability of the averaging model of the information integration theory to attitude formation in a classroom situation and compared the results of an in-classroom and an in-laboratory application of equivalent stimuli (verbal vs printed). Results confirmed both the information integration theory and the averaging model.…

Three classic visual toys are discussed and instructions are given for their construction. These are moire patterns, kaleidoscope, and stereoscope. (MP)

Reports a series of experiments that give evidence for retention of information about color in very short-term visual memory, commonly termed "iconic memory". (Author)