USING TRIGONOMETRY AS AN EXAMPLE, A REPORT ON THE USE OF THE OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCY PROJECTOR AS AN AUDIOVISUAL AID IN CONCEPT BUILDING IS PRESENTED. SOME ADVANTAGES OVER THE CONVENTIONAL CHALKBOARD METHOD ARE--(1) OVERLAYS MAY BE SO ATTACHED THAT ANY PROBLEMS OR DIAGRAM PROCEEDS FROM THE SIMPLE TO THE COMPLEX BEFORE THE STUDENT'S EYES. (2) FACING…

A SURVEY OF THE MECHANICAL AIDS AVAILABLE FOR THE TEACHING OF READING WHICH DESCRIBES THEIR OPERATION, THEIR COST, AND LIMITATIONS IS PRESENTED TO PROVIDE SCHOOL PERSONNEL WITH SOME INFORMATION ABOUT MECHANICAL AIDS IN GENERAL AND ABOUT SELECTED PROTOTYPICAL DEVICES IN PARTICULAR. EDUCATORS CAN OBTAIN FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE DEVICES FROM THE…

IT WAS DETERMINED THAT INDEPENDENT READING ACTIVITIES SHOULD BASICALLY GROW FROM AND BE RELATED TO THE READING MATERIALS BEING USED IN THE DEVELOPMENTAL LESSONS. THEY MAY ALSO INCLUDE MATERIALS OF A NATURE SO AS TO PROVIDE WORTHWHILE PRACTICE, CONCEPT BUILDING, OR ENRICHMENT LEARNINGS. MANY RECOMMENDED EXAMPLES OF SUITABLE READING ACTIVITIES AT…

A STUDY OF LEARNING ACTIVITY EXPLORED (1) AN ACTIVITY-ACHIEVEMENT SCALE TO DESCRIBE THE IMPACT OF ACTIVITY ON ACHIEVEMENT AND (2) THE POSSIBLE COMPLEXITY OR DIMENSIONALITY OF THIS IMPACT. TEN GROUPS, OF 10 COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS EACH, WERE SCHEDULED TO STUDY UNDER EACH OF 10 LEARNING SITUATIONS. THE SITUATIONS CONSISTED OF TWO MODES OF…

AN ARABIC-ENGLISH VOCABULARY WAS COMPILED FOR USE IN THE TEACHING OF SECOND LEVEL ARABIC. THE WORDS AND PHRASES SELECTED FOR INCLUSION IN THE VOCABULARY WERE ARRANGED UNDER 28 ARABIC SYMBOLS. (WB)

This paper discusses the Financial Analysis System (FAS), a software system for financial analysis, display, and modeling of the data found in the COMPUSTAT Annual Industrial, Over-the-Counter and Canadian Company files. The educational utility of FAS is also discussed briefly. (Author)

SPECIAL MEDIA INSTITUTES HAVE FUNCTIONED IN THE YEARS 1965-6 AND 1966-7 TO BRING KNOWLEDGE OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA USE IN SPECIFIC SUBJECT AREAS TO TITLE XI NDEA INSTITUTE DIRECTORS, AND TO ENCOURAGE MORE EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN TEACHERS, SCHOLARS, AND STUDENTS. SPECIAL MEDIA INSTITUTES HAVE BEEN HELD AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, THE…

In 1965, the Minnesota legislature called for a feasibility study of inter-institutional educational television in higher education. Recommendations resulting from the study, with approval of the Statewide Advisory Committee, were: (1) empower the Liaison and Facilities Commission to manage the project and its funds; (2) provide each 4-year…

The history and general principles of programed instruction are surveyed. Research literature published on the topic is cited and the declining frequency of articles appearing on the subject is noted. Some reasons for the growing use of programed instruction in industry are discussed. A plea for better evaluation measures is made. The use of…

This annotated bibliography lists 90 publications within the scope area of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources which do not appear in Resources in Education. Titles have been selected based on usefulness and general interest, and all books deal with some aspect of libraries, information science, media, or educational technology.…

Intended to provide media staff, library personnel, and educators with a bibliographical guide to commercially-produced educational slides, this computer computer-generated listing contains over 20,000 entries. The volume is divided into three principal sections: (1) a subject guide to educational slides including a subject heading outline and an…

Developed to help people in gathering, compiling, and interpreting data relating to the application of technology to instruction, this handbook provides assistance in the form of standardized terms and definitions and a structure showing the interrelationships of those terms. The handbook is organized to lead logically from an overall definition…

Both hardware manufacturers and software producers/distributors are arranged alphabetically by firm name and in indexes classified by product line. Entries indicate names of key personnel, addresses, phone numbers, types of material or equipment offered, and availability of printed instructions or other materials supplied with the product. Also…

A study was conducted with three eighth grade students to determine the separate and joint effects of image size, image brightness, and image contrast on the visibility of projected materials. Twenty-five hundred slides were presented, representing 20 slides each of all possible combinations of values of the independent variables. Telegraph keys…

The purpose of this study was to test the relationships between identified independent variables of teachers' age, sex, years of experience, grade level, formal training, and identified dependent variables of future training plans, concepts, and attitudes toward educational media. A questionnaire was administered during the 1968-69 school year to…