This study is the final report of a three year project to find out if the use of Cuisenaire rods in kindergarten, first, and second grades upgrades arithmetic achievement. Both experimental and control schools enrolled children with average ability who came from lower middle class homes. Children in the experimental kindergarten classes were…

Sixty-nine teachers in 14 school districts were taught reading diagnosis by telephone in a study to determine whether the telephone can be used to spread instruction over a wide area. Sixty-one of the student/teachers were tested against 15 others who received instruction in the conventional manner. Conclusions drawn from both studies were as…

Comments about these short films, written by participants of the EPDA Institute in Media and the Teaching of English, include an abstract of the film's main points, a plot synopsis, appropriate age level of the audience, strengths and weakenesses of the film, possible unit themes or topics to be developed around the film, a list of books and…

The five documents in this PREP kit report on the significant R&D findings and current practice in bilingual education, from a project supported under OE's Targeted Communications Program. "Administration of Bilingual Education," one of the documents in the kit, is directed to administrators, school board members, and others who must…

A detailed examination of the many faceted and interrelated steps requisite to the rational design, production, and operational management of a validated learning experience mediated by technology is presented. The eight phases in instructional design within which the book operates are: 1) the frame of reference within which the instruction must…

A study was made of the market need for cable television-based higher education from an off-campus and non-traditional point of view. State University of Nebraska (SUN) is such an endeavor. Reduced to its essence, SUN is three things: (1) an extensive investigation into non-traditional education; (2) a new exportable model for systematized design…

This newsletter describes the Hawaii Language Skills Program, a total instructional system that provides teacher materials, pupil materials, instructional approaches, and ways of assessing children's progress in language skills, literature, and language systems. Key approaches used include self-direction and peer tutoring. The children are trained…

The development of motion visual instructional messages should proceed according to systems principles. This would permit the creation of more effective visual messages, allow educators to use more effectively the various media as communication tools, and assist in the refinement of the instructional development process. Like any system, a system…

The Learning Resources Center (LRC) represents a merger of library and audiovisual resources. The material in this publication consists of an overview of the various aspects involved in this merger. There are chapters on the emergence of the LRC: the library as LRC; LRC administration; resource centers in elementary schools, secondary schools, and…

This issue of the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) newsletter is entitled "Progress Report" and includes articles on the BSCS program, "The Life of a Curriculum Study" by Wm. V. Mayer; a brief report on the sixth-grade trials of the BSCS Human Sciences Program; a discussion of minicourses, with emphasis on cooperative efforts of Dr. S.…

The guide was written for use by Texas schools in planning media programs responsive to the school's educational goals and objectives as well as user needs and interests. Guidelines are offered for the full spectrum of learning resource center staff. A planning guide gives quantitative statements for four levels with the recommendation that…

Thirty-two authors, most of them university teachers, express differing points of view on the subject of secretarial education. The readings have been organized around seven topics. Part 1 "The Businessman Looks at Secretarial Education," contains a single reading. Parts 2 and 3 offer more than a dozen examples of new thinking in shorthand and…

This monograph presents an annotated index of auto-tutorial materials in science education available to middle and secondary schools in the Newark School District. Materials relevant to the study of the biological sciences enable the students to become more familiar with Biology Statistics, Cytology, Marine Field Trips, Use of Microscopes,…

A master plan was prepared for the development of public telecommunications in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The summary of main findings and recommendations were the result of various master state plan surveys, questionnaires and studies. It was found that: the development of a statewide public telecommunication system is frustrated because of a…

A scheme which classifies the instructional applications of computers is designed to overcome the confusion created by the imprecision and equivocation associated with computer terminology. The classification is restricted to instructional applications, allows that some applications could apply to more than one category, and reflects a continuum…