This overview of a specific spreadsheet, Microsoft's Multiplan for the Apple Macintosh microcomputer, emphasizes specific features that are important to the academic community, including the mathematical functions of algebra, trigonometry, and statistical analysis. Additional features are summarized, including data formats for both numerical and…

In early computer assisted instruction (CAI), negative feedback often insulted students and/or provided no useful knowledge. In classroom settings, teachers use the following approaches in dealing with students' wrong answers: (1) ask the question again, louder and slower; (2) ask the question again, using different words; (3) back up and reteach…

Reports on individualized instruction in action in a California public high school. (PP)

The article delineates an approach to teaching agriculture in the elementary grades: the extensive development of materials, lesson guides, and teaching aids which elementary teachers could use in their instructional programs, while local agriculture teachers could serve as consultants. (AJ)

The Vocational-Technical Education Consortium (V-TECHS) was formed to help develop vocational-technical materials in the use of performance objectives and criterion-referenced test items which have been validated against actual job performance. (BP)

An information source for media production listing motion pictures, slides and filmstrips, transparencies, television and videotaping, and three-D products. (HB)

This brief guide is intended for managers who are responsible for computer projects, to explain the use of quality controls and software management methods. The typical problems of software development are explained. Over twenty distinct quality controls are defined, and recommendations are given for software management actions. Empirical…

Reports on the lab's activities as a center for the development of university language lab courses and for research into contemporary oral colloquial French, a part of the applied linguistics research area, and a center for the development of a language lab grammar for Zurich German. (RM)

Paper delivered at A.G. Bell Association's Southwest Regional Meeting (Dallas, Texas, October 1967).

The report summarizes findings from a needs assessment survey of 16 precollege schools and programs to assess needs in the field of education. Four areas of service which precollege programs could provide were identified: curriculum development, materials development, technical assistance, and inservice training. Among findings were that…

This users' manual, intended for use with a Project Head Start teacher training notebook, describes the purpose, development and field testing of the training materials and suggests procedures for using the notebook as a resource in teacher training sessions. The training notebook to which the users' manual refers is based on 11 questions in the…

A model framework for course materials construction is presented as an aid to Coast Guard course writers and coordinators, curriculum developers, and instructors who must modify a course or draft a new one. The model assumes that the instructor or other designated person has: (1) completed a task analysis which identifies the competencies, skills…

This paper deals with the use of reading workbooks in elementary school classrooms. Sections of the paper discuss the purposes of workbooks, the function of workbooks (how workbooks serve both teachers and students), the implications of these observations about workbooks where developers of basal programs are concerned, and the sufficiency,…

The findings of a planning study of arts and cultural programing on commercial and public radio and television are summarized in this report. Focusing on the decision making process on arts and cultural subjects in the broadcast industry, the report presents information on the following topics: how the phrase "arts and cultural programing" is…