A study investigated the relationship of traits measured by the California F Scale (a measure of anti-democratic attitudes) with changes in attitudes as measured by the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) during a one-semester course of educational psychology. A 2 x 2 factorial design was used, classifying 132 sophomore education students…

Described is an experimental, quantitative model developed by the New York State Education Department to evaluate state-level financing strategies for higher education. It can be used to address a variety of questions and takes into account a host of direct and indirect relationships. It uses computer software and optimization algorithms developed…

A simple deterministic macroeconomic computer model was tested in a junior-senior level economic statistics course to demonstrate how and why some common errors arise when statistical estimation techniques are applied to economic relationships in empirical problematic situations. The computer model was treated as the true universe or real-world…

A series of five video-cassettes showing children from ages three to eight years was developed for use in an undergraduate developmental psychology course. Each cassette was viewed on an optional basis, with extra credit toward student's final grade awarded for viewing. Study guides accompanied each cassette. An evaluation of the effectiveness of…

For this review, approximately 85 studies were identified. The majority were merely descriptions of training programs. There were few studies of teaching assistants' cognitive or affective gains. A number of studies reported significant effects on observed teaching behavior. Whereas quasi-experimental studies generally found significant effects on…

Volume 1 of this study describes and costs two possible satellite networks which could be used in education in Canada. In order to determine whether these networks were plausible or useful, a letter and a description of the two hypothetical networks (Volume 2) were sent, before the cost study was completed, to all Canadian universities and…

Methods of instruction involved in an introductory, nontechnical college physics course were studied and compared. Students involved were divided into experimental and control groups respectively, about 50 in each group. The experimental group was instructed by lab method films for six experiments, while the control group was taught traditionally.…

Educational experiments in the teaching of Latin literature being conducted in Belgium by Professor Delatte are examined in this study. The base vocabulary of Caesar's "Gallic Wars" was determined with the use of an IBM 620 computer, and the pedagogical implications leading to a simplified approach to the study of the text are discussed. The study…

Thirteen experiments and 15 activities are presented in this unit handbook for student use. The experiment sections are concerned with naked-eye observation in astronomy, regularity and time, variations in data, uniform motion, gravitational acceleration, Galileo's experiments, Netson's laws, inertial and gravitational mass, trajectories, and…

The six experiments presented in these two manuals were designed for use in any introductory or advanced undergraduate psychology course either partially or totally concerned with human cognition. One manual serves as the teacher's accompaniment to the actual experiments detailed in the student's manual. A list of textbooks which might be…

The study involved the development, implementation and evaluation of laboratory audio-tutorial activities in a college chemistry course. The activities were designed in a self-instructional mode, written as linear programs and taped instructions. A pretest was used in two instances, but all included a posttest. To evaluate the effectiveness of the…

Presented are the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to compare the effectiveness of programed instructional materials with that of conventional materials in university physical science laboratory classes. The subjects were students enrolled in two similar freshmen-level physical science general education courses who were…

Included is a teachers resource collection of 42 marine science activities for high school students. Both the biological and the physical factors of the marine environment are investigated, including the study of tides, local currents, microscope measuring, beaches, turbidity, sea water solids, pH, and salinity, marine bacteriology, microbiology,…

This preliminary planning study undertakes to develop a detailed picture of what the National Institute of Education might become. It addresses five major categories of questions concerning the proposed Institute: (1) its objectives, (2) program, (3) organization, (4) relationship with the educational system, and (5) initial activities. This…

Experimental design has only limited utility inthe field of educational evaluation and, in general, the methodology of the former does not equal the methodology of the latter; in fact, experimental design plays a limited role in the total framework of educational evaluation. Experimental design does have potential utility in the areas of input and…