The major features of Computer Managed Instruction (CMI) are diagnosis and testing, analysis, record keeping, and prescription. Diagnosis and testing are used to evaluate each student's performance at regular intervals. The results are analyzed to update the student's record and provide a prescription which suggests the learning process the…

Most of this document consists of the individual reports approved by the 25 Forums at the 1970 White House Conference on Children. Also included are the conference preamble that set the tone of the conference proceedings; the letter of transmittal submitted to the President by the national conference chairman, Stephen Hess; and an appendix…

The "modern school" is sensitive to change, aggressive in its employment of instructional technology, yet totally responsive to and concerned about the individual. Student-centered learning can flourish through use of a systems approach, which can also move media and materials from their present peripheral role in education to an integral position…

Composed of articles selected from recent issues of "Educational Technology" magazine, this volume of the review series centers on using programed instruction. Subjects covered in the articles include performance problem solving, the criterion problem, programed materials, contingency management, Soviet Union programs, reinforcement, specific…

Composed of articles selected from recent issues of "Educational Technology" magazine, this volume of the review series concentrates on the evaluation of education. Among the topics covered in the articles are institutionalization of evaluation, several approaches to assessing evaluation and educational planning, context evaluation of instruction,…

This report describes the development and pilot testing of a low-cost, generalizable, quality-assured, peer-instructional model suitable to the training needs of men of varying measured aptitude. The report presents a brief overview of the project, followed by a detailed description of the APSTRAT model and the considerations that led to its…

Ideas about computers in education are usually limited to transactions of a conversational form between students and machines. Computers, however, can do many other things and it is only inertia and prejudice, not lack of ideas, which stand in the way of broadening the range of computer applications in schools. Several examples, over half of which…

Twelve articles on current and projected trends in the teaching of foreign language in elementary schools (FLES) focus on four major areas of concern. A look at the present state of FLES instruction includes articles on programs in various parts of the world, the potential of FLES, and teacher preparation. Two articles on innovations and school…

Presented in this report is an extension of the feasibility and follow-up studies on computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in the U.S. Army's Basic Electronic Training Course. The report is oriented toward demonstrating the viability of CAI coping with a large block (102 hours) of material under real-time training conditions. This evaluation is a…

Background on the creation, governance, program development, and planning of the new National Institute of Education (NIE) are provided in this speech. Summary descriptions of NIE's plans for basic research, research and development and utilization systems, and programmatic research and development. The latter category is NIE's major concentration…

The 33rd annual American Industrial Arts Association (AIAA) convention was held in Miami in 1971. Topics for the AIAA general session addresses were: (1) "Technology--and a Time of Crisis-II," and (2) "Goals, Accountability, and Action for the Industrial Arts." Twenty-four addresses from sessions of the American Council of…

With current renewed interest in the black man's role and contributions in the settling and development of America, educational institutions and libraries have accelerated their efforts to institute courses of study and programs in the field. This index to black history and studies, retrieved from a computerized data base at the University of…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a Brazilian definition of national education goals. It suggests the adoption of a philosophy of education that will provide a pattern of the kind of education needed in Brazil, namely a combination of modern humanistic culture and technology, by taking into account the…

The objectives of this reading program, funded under Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act, were as follows: (1) students (grades two through seven) shall show an average gain of one month's growth in total reading for each month of participation in the program; (2) third grade students shall score an average 80 percent efficiency on…

Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., received funding for three years, beginning in June, 1968, to develop, use, validate, and evaluate instructional materials which test the potential of the computer in the learning process. The report covers (1) materials, development, use, and validation (includes a cost analysis); (2) the…