The first portion of the guidelines discusses the need to train educational technicians for the field of communications (including education, instructions, industrial organizations or agencies), in order to meet changing educational techniques and the increasing number of resources for learning. A detailed curriculum guide is presented for a…

Experiments conducted between 1968 and 1973 studied the various ways that colleges might provide instructional computer access for students at reasonable cost. Ten colleges, representing a variety of computer needs and a diversity of preference in choice of computer vendor, configuration, and mode of operation, participated in an experiment to…

This paper reports the results of research conducted by the Academic Games program since its beginning in 1967. The research is classified and examined in three major categories: The Influence of Game-Playing on the Socialization of Children; Games as Controlled Research Environments, and Effectiveness of Games in Education. In addition, the paper…

The role of evaluation in the development of evolutionary procedures is briefly described and highlighted. Four aspects of evaluation technique which distinguish efficient from inefficient CAI programs are identified. Evaluation of products is also characterized. Findings of a continuing survey of students via questionnaire as to the value of…

This study compares multiple person jury verdicts based on video tapes with individual decisions based on written trial accounts. An actual civil court case was used to make both the simulated video and written versions as authentic as the original trial. Adultvolunteers from the general public and college students provided the jurors. Results…

Reported is the third quarter, fiscal year 1974 (March 1, 1974-May 31, 1974) technical progress of Project LIFE (Language Improvement to Facilitate Education), toward developing an instructional system in which filmstrips in the areas of perceptual training, perceptual thinking, and language/reading are used to assist hearing impaired children in…

To assist school teachers in planning an integrated program using many media, a selected guide describes characteristics of elementary school populations. An alphabetical listing of manufacturers and service organizations in elementary education is shown in chart form to classify products available. Devices and methods in elementary education…

This book is designed to test the feasibility of a consumers' information exchange for the users and purchasers of laboratory and other instructional equipment in undergraduate science education. Through the use of this guide it may be possible for the prospective purchaser to learn of and contact faculty at other colleges and universities who are…

Means of aiding children when they are reading in a content field were suggested. The author pointed out that there are various structural or organizational patterns in different kinds of texts, and if students were made aware of these patterns they would have a way of preorganizing themselves to increase comprehension. The specialized content…

Forty-nine books, films, and tapes are reviewed in various areas of special education. Authors' comments on the reviews are frequently included. (JD)

In compressed speech listening tests, performance was not significantly affected by listening aids presented during training. The aids consisted of a summary of the material to be heard and a list of key words in the material to be heard; the summary was presented to one group and the list of key words to another group. A third group did not…

A status report on museums and media prefaces the annotated references listed in this paper. Futuristic proposals have been made for a Museum of Media that would be all media and no objects, and for a museum environment individualized by computer and visual previews of the galleries. The museums of today use films, slide-tapes, sound recordings,…

This study compared the mean scores of the final examinations given to 2 populations of junior college students taking College Algebra by 2 instructional methods. The control group received instruction by the traditional approach of lectures and classroom discussion; while the experimental group had their lectures and discussions supplemented by…

To evaluate the effectiveness of demonstrations in vocational agriculture instruction, 12 randomly selected Iowa high schools were divided and used as a control group and a demonstration group. Thirty-nine demonstrations were used in four subject matter areas of the test group, while the control group did not have use of the demonstrations.…

This self-contained Institute was designed to provide elementary and high school librarians from disadvantaged areas, whether inner-city or rural, with an opportunity to study current practices and to develop solutions for operating their libraries as media centers, working with their community, and cooperating with existing public libraries. The…