The final report of Specialized Office Three (S-3) of the Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning describes activities for improving the quality of instruction for children with handicapping conditions, other than the deaf and blind, through media, materials, and educational technology. In Section I, the project background…

The goal of this project was to develop, validate, and utilize a process for vertically articulating curriculum between secondary and post secondary levels of vocational technical education throughout the state of Minnesota. Procedures involved the identification of two areas of staff responsibility: research and development, and service to local…

A project was conducted to develop and field test self-instructional materials which would provide a mechanism for positive change in attitudes and procedures for educators and administrators toward integrating handicapped students into regular vocational education programs. Specific objectives of the project were as follows: (1) research and…

Presented in the final report of Project SEACAP, a program designed to provide educational services to learning disabled students in Delaware, is information on the project's history and goals, progress, evaluation methodology, and conclusion and plans. Outlined among program objectives are to develop and field test guides and media of a program…

Criticizes the predictability of foreign language classroom behavior. Emphasizes the need for innovation and variety in classroom activities in order to get rid of the traditional stereotyped teacher and student roles. (TL)

Current energy shortages have created the need for educational programs to prepare tomorrow's consumers and workers for occupations that are more responsive to the realities of the energy situation. Particularly needed is an energy program stressing productive conservation. (Productive conservation emphasizes using less energy to perform the same…

The culturally-based educational materials contained in the Daybreak Star Preschool Activities Book are used with the Native American children in the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation's Daybreak Star Preschool. These educational materials reflect the cultures of the children in the Preschool. The Preschool's primary focus is to create a…

The concluding conference of the Council for Cultural Cooperation's Project on Foreign Languages is summarized according to the following framework: (1) the aims, the principle themes discussed at the conference, and the general results; (2) the considerations, proposals, and needs that were identified by the conference and the working groups; (3)…

The papers in this "Festschrift" are theoretical and descriptive in nature as well as practical. The first section of the book contains theoretical papers dealing with the following topics: criteria for course design, logical argumentation, a taxonomic approach to scientific vocabulary, function of a type of particle in a chemistry textbook, verb…

A combined lecture-problem workbook course in math and graphics for students entering the engineering program at Triton Community College was designed to allow them to progress at their own rate without a need for faculty lecture. The workbook places equal emphasis on descriptive geometry and graphics with the major areas covered broken into…

Instructional materials designed to teach teachers some fundamental skills needed to implement objectives-based instruction are described, as well as the procedures and results of the initial tryout of the materials at Arizona State University with more than 400 preservice and inservice teachers. Participants used self-instructional booklets,…

The design and development of a needs assessment procedure to assist local vocational education administrators in planning a mainstreaming approach for handicapped students in vocational education was the purpose of this study. The methodology involved a review of the literature on the general mainstreaming topic, program planning, needs…

A developmental history of the Georgia Life Skills for Mental Health program is presented. The program's purpose is to help students aged 5-18 learn ways to handle stress, make major life decisions, and form more satisfying interpersonal relationships. In addition to a narrative description of how the program was conceived and developed, the…

This paper is the result of a symposium called to discuss a two-year, multiuniversity development project which attempted to assist in advancing the role of women in education. The purpose of the project, commissioned by the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), was to design, develop, validate, and disseminate instructional…

This paper describes an in-service course for the design, development, and evaluation of mediated learning activities. Each Learning Activities Package (LAP) has six basic components: concept, rationale, objectives, preassessment, activities, and evaluation. Each of these components is outlined, with emphasis placed on writing objectives…