Advocates a new set of feedback principles: (1) providing feedback immediately is frequently less effective than later; (2) it is usually a poor idea to couple feedback with praise; and (3) holding people accountable for achieving objectives that they have set often decreases their performance quality. (VT)

Report of a study to evaluate the potential systematically developed cognitive pretraining within the context of Air Force undergraduate flying training. (Author)

An experiment attempted to study the effects of a computer managed instructional program on the anxiety level of the teacher education students enrolled in a course on educational psychology. (JY)

A pilot study showed that classroom observational data can contribute to the formative evaluation of an instructional model, as well as of the learning processes and outcomes of individual students. (JY)

The rationale for a performanced- based instructional theory has arisen from significant advances during the past several years in instructional psychology. Four major areas of concern are: analysis of subject-matter content in terms of performance competencies, diagnosis of pre-instructional behavior, formulation of an instructional…

This article described a pragmatic approach for conducting the institutional research that an organization must do in order to remain a dynamic entity, i.e., one which develops and changes within its environmental setting. (Author/RK)

The value in using the computer as a teaching machine is likely to be a function of how well it can adapt to individual differences in performance. The term adaptive'' is used to imply that the student is routed to material which follows different teaching strategies and that tasks are put together, on-line, to fit a particular student's…

Article deals with two issues concerned with accountability, first, the gathering of information about how instructionally effective a particular instructional system is, and the second deals with the use of that information in making instruction more effective. (Author/RK)

A description of an on-line and interactive programing system (TICS - Teacher-Interactive-Computer-System), which is aimed at facilitating the authoring of interactive, instructional computer programs by persons who are experts on the subject matter being addressed, but not necessarily programers. (Author)

Some practical suggestions on how educational technology can help the classroom teacher who teaches reading. (HB)

A brief description of an interdisciplinary secondary school with a science orientation'' which was designed to develop technological literacy.'' (Author/AK)

Involving students directly in decision-making through environmental gaming simulations will allow them to better understand the theoretical base of their actions, test their ideas, confirm their reality, and see the practical consequences of various alternative strategies of action. This instructional technique moves beyond the case study stage…