These guidelines are a set of recommendations for developing and selecting environmental education materials with the aim of helping developers of activity guides, lesson plans, and other instructional materials produce high quality products and providing educators with a tool to evaluate the wide array of available education materials. They offer…

A guide to selecting instructional media for a diocesan religious education center. (PF)

Theme of the article is to identify and illustrate seven criteria for selection of instruction materials. (Author)

A look at Project OPEN (Optimal Procedures for Educational Needs) which aims to integrate the special needs child with a learning disability into the regular classroom. (Author)

A survey of elementary school personnel to determine view on the effective use of pictures in instruction. The survey resulted in a list of 20 criteria for assessing illustrative material. (Author)

To test the thesis that most magazines for preschool children are not appropriate for the intended audience, an analysis was made of seven magazines published for children between 2 and 6 years of age. Periodicals selected for review were "Happy Times,""Highlights for Children,""Humpty Dumpty's…

Intended to help special educators select software appropriate for their classroom use, the directory contains evalutions of about 300 instructional software packages. An index lists titles by computer type and the following subject areas: computer literacy, critical thinking, grammar, life skills, literature, math computation, math problem…

A research project examined the development and use of instructional materials in Finland's schools. Aspects investigated included instructional aims, pupils' entry levels, teaching methods, and evaluation. This document reports on the principal results of the project, and covers the following topics: (1) a brief concept analysis of the…

Guidelines for the planning and purchase of microcomputer systems are presented in outline form. These guidelines are directed to educators in developmental education, special education, and learning center environments; however, they are applicable to all educators intending to use microcomputers. First, a discussion of hardware considerations is…

Children are able to cope with a majority of problems of learning and growing; some problems, however, may require guidance and support. A technique available to all people, trained or untrained in counseling or guidance is bibliotherapy--a process of dynamic interaction between the personality of the reader and literature which may be used for…

This learning packet was designed by the Special Education Supervisor Training Project (SEST) to develop professional supervisory competency in establishing a set of evaluative criteria and procedures to determine the quality, utility, and availability of learning materials, and to organize and conduct review sessions where teachers and other…

A telephone survey of 1,487 adults in 91 nonmetropolitan areas of Tennessee was conducted to determine the nonmetropolitan newspaper audience, the exposure and effectiveness of nonmetro newspaper advertising, and the complementary relationship of advertising media, particularly newspapers and television, in nonmetropolitan markets. The results…

Audiovisual aids and instructional media have advantages: they are of use in training, they permit self instruction, they allow widespread exposure to expert teachers. They also present difficulties: they are expensive, they require reorganization and careful selection of staff and equipment, they require decisions as to what programs to use or…