This paper reviews and discusses four critical issues facing the foreign language profession. The pacing of basic foreign language instruction is too rapid, causing numerous detrimental effects on learning. Recent interest in specialized aspects of instruction, such as individualization, has resulted in unfocused leadership, so that teachers are…

This report compares the relative improvement in reading shown by students taught by teachers trained in the diagnostic/prescriptive approach with those taught by teachers using a conventional method. Subjects were 239 control and 261 experimental students, matched in basic demographic characteristics and in IQ scores, from grades four through…

In order to determine how the Technical Nursing Program at Florida Junior College (FJC) was contributing to the success or failure of its graduates, a questionnaire was sent to 30 FJC graduates who had taken the State Board Examination between December 1972 and December 1973 and who were locally employed. All of these students had been exposed to…

This study compared the effectiveness of lecture presentations through the use of Educational Telephone Network (ETN) and face-to-face situations of conventional district inservice training meetings for county Extension agents and explored implications for the selection of inservice training media. County staff units were randomly assigned to ETN,…

This experimental study was designed to determine the differences in attitudes toward the manufacturing industry among pupils enrolled in (1) a conventional industrial arts program, (2) an innovative industrial arts program, and (3) a parochial school having no industrial arts program. A self-constructed attitude scale was administered to 128…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) materials and the inquiry teaching method on student achievement and retention in biology. Teachers were selected who used BSCS materials with inquiry methods, BSCS materials with traditional methods, traditional materials with inquiry methods,…

This 3-year study made a longitudinal comparison of three types of preschool intervention programs. The Traditional approach (two classes of 15 students and three teachers each) worked in conventional ways to improve personal, social, motor and general language development; children were placed in a regular public school kindergarten the following…

The purpose of this study was to analyze two methods of instruction used in an animal biology course. One group of students, the experimental group, was taught using an audio-tutorial program, and another group, the control group, was taught using the conventional lecture-laboratory method. Pretest and posttest data were collected from achievement…

Very little work has been done in the broad field of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) to exploring the use of a minicomputer as another learning resource in the instructional process. Accordingly a cost-effective Learning Resource Aided Instruction (LRAI) System centered around a Data General NOVA minicomputer augmented with slide…

Foreign language constrastive analysis, pattern practice, and oral drilling served as the experimental treatment in this study investigating whether a regular English class format for teaching English to reading students whose natural language is Black English (BE) is adequate in presenting Standard English (SE) at the secondary level. The form BE…

Behavior modification techniques were used in teaching reading to 181 disadvantaged Negro third graders. Students were divided into four groups--traditional reading with and without intermediate awards (chips with which they could purchase personal awards) and programed reading with and without intermediate awards. The Sullivan Remedial Reading…

This report describes an experiment which tests the effectiveness of a multimedia, continuous learning program in comparison with that obtained in a traditional Spanish language course. Results of the Modern Language Tests for Spanish 1 indicate that experimental and control groups were equal at the conclusion of one year of study in both the…

Two educational models are described: Alternative S, the structured situation stands for security and sureness gained through the equating of system and structure and through organization which preserves the status quo. Alternative O, openness, stands for ongoingness, and opportune moments for growth. Values and latent dangers of these two diverse…

The feasibility of using programed instruction materials for a session of a Management Training Conference conducted for first-level supervisory personnel of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation was studied. A programing format utilizing a series of gated segments, each preceded by a test item, was designed to accommodate the variability among…

At Baruch College of the City University of New York, a study was begun using nontraditional, small group classroom techniques to determine if students' achievement in an intermediate accountancy course could be influenced. Quiz and examination results showed no significant difference between the traditional and nontraditional classes. (JMD)