The training analyst must be able to specify training media requirements during the early stages of weapon systems development. Also, training specialists frequently need to make training media selections for center or base level courses. This report provides such personnel with information to assist them in the development of training equipment…

Computer assisted instruction deserves serious consideration by the English teacher as a potential contributor to teaching and learning. As a supplement to the teacher, the computer can serve students as a personal tutor. It is no more inhuman than books or recordings, although, like them, it cannot adequately respond to the problems of disturbed,…

Thirty-two master teachers, working in grade-level and instructional area groups and using an evaluation instrument developed by a university center for career development and occupational preparation, rated 66 sets of career education materials by 15 criteria, such as organization; clarity of objectives; appropriateness to grade level; and…

Over the past decade, momentum has been gathering for the development and application of a variety of approaches to the instructional process that emphasize mastery and self-pacing by the student. Included are approaches such as programmed instruction, computer-aided instruction, and individually prescribed instruction. This review considers one…

This paper describes the Educational Media Center (EMC) at the University of Michigan School of Education and its attempts to become technologically ready for competency-based teacher education. The EMC, a facility for storing, producing, promoting, and disseminating learning resources, comprises seven components. A media library serves as a model…

These curriculum guidelines were developed to stimulate administrators to take action in developing an adequate safety program, motivate teachers to provide safety instruction, and arouse the interest of each child to become aware of the potential hazards and to influence him to make proper adjustment to his environment in order to avoid or…

Three talking dictionaires designed to increase independence and resource-use skills of handicapped children have specific advantages and limitations. System I involves a random access tape recorder, a printed or braille dictionary which contains the inquiry numbers for words, a console (similar to an adding machine) on which the number is…

This is an experimental course of study designed to introduce the junior high school student to the field of chemistry through his knowledge and understanding of chemical reactions which take place in his world. The everday experiences which the student encounters show the classification, phases, and changes of matter. No prerequisite courses are…

Summarized is research performed by the Project staff from 1969 to 1973 with 125 to 300 educable mentally handicapped (EMH) or emotionally disturbed elementary and secondary school students in Syracuse, New York. Project purposes are described in terms of a system of evaluating and field testing educational materials (such as captioned films) and…

A supplement to the earlier Aids to Media Selection for Students and Teachers is provided by this guide. It offers an annotated, selected roster of the book lists and periodicals published or revised since 1970 which review materials suitable for use in elementary or secondary school instructional programs. Section I deals with book selection…

A university library can and should be a center for individual access to all forms of research information media, both print and non-print. The author presents a summary account of an effort to determine existing needs at the University of Connecticut for non-print information resources and services under the following headings: the University of…

This compilation lists 247 print and non-print materials dealing with animal life, nature, and ecology and is designed to assist teachers and school librarians in selecting media suitable for pupils in grades 4 through 6 and 9 through 12. A few of the materials date back to 1951, but the majority are of more recent issue. The collection for…

A wide range of information on educational and instructional technology is collected in this yearbook of the Association of Programed Learning and Educational Technology (APLET). This is presented in order to put users in contact with meterials, equipment and ideas, and to forge lines of communication among users. Six major sections comprise the…

In this revised paper, analyses are made concerning the rationale for initiating the training of educational technologists. Self- and social-optimization is described as a tendency in the development of man's individual and social life. Education is referred to as an agency, not only in the development of life, but also in the continuity of…

A study of informal, teacher-generated testing activities is presented. The following major topics are covered: (1) frequency of informal achievement testing as related to test learning (2) informal achievement test grades in relation to testing as a learning device, (3) test correction with respect to informal achievement testing as a learning…