This final report describes a two-year project which tested the applicability of selected instructional media aids in the teaching of college level, English, introductory courses in poetry. Basic to the design and implementation of the experiment is the belief that poetry affects the senses as well as the intellect. The following six objectives of…

This article surveys the College Entrance Examination Board's future program, in a possible move toward establishment of a national secondary school curriculum. Attention is focused on the future content of tests and on their effects on young people. The existing program of the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) and the way the program…

This document includes five papers on teaching reading skills to illiterate adults. The first discusses the stages of development in acquiring reading skills--introduction, application, and mastery; and suggests two steps which should be taken with reference to reading instruction for illiterate adults--sub groups within the target population…

This report is one in a series of needs assessment publications that comprise the first phase of PROJECT DESIGN, an ESEA Title III project administered by the Fresno City Unified School District. The purpose of this study was to develop an achievement analysis model and to analyze achievement of students in the Fresno City Schools with reference…

This extensively annotated bibliography supplements an article by Zana Stein and Mervyn Susser entitled "Mutability of Intelligence and Epidemiology of Mild Mental Retardation," appearing in "Review of Educational Research," Volume 40, Number 1, February 1970, pages 29-67. Resource materials listed focus on: the fate of…

Based on two years of training for teacher aides involved in a high school equivalency program (HEP) for disadvantaged youth, a manual was developed to equip nonprofessionals to conduct basic skills classes in similar settings. The training program used task analysis in setting up the basic skills classes, and a group dynamics approach in which…

This study aimed to establish standards of excellence for a television series of literacy programs; to describe the planning, production, and broadcast of one series, Operation Alphabet; and to measure the performance against the standards. A series of 100 1/2-hour programs, operation Alphabet was aimed at achieving the third grade reading level.…

This study analyzed the vocabulary, listening, speaking, and pre-reading skills of a kindergarten class to identify the factors contributing to language development and the interrelationship of children's language skills. The 21 children were tested individually three times during the year, and case studies were compiled from monthly language…

Developing test instruments for the Pattern Drills Program in the Pittsburg Public Schools has convinced the writer that the more test development activities and the teaching process reinforce each other, the stronger the program is. The Pattern Drills Program aims to develop bidialectism in non-standard English speakers by teaching standard…

The purpose of this research project was to develop, administer, evaluate, and revise a set of tests which would effectively measure the academic and professional knowledge about English and the teaching of English possessed by prospective secondary school English teachers. The battery of tests was to consist of four parts covering knowledge of…

Field testing, the last step in the developmental cycle for educational products, must ascertain whether the test product, placed in a natural environment, will actually elicit the behavioral changes it was designed to effect. A systems approach to field testing requires that certain basic areas of investigation first be established. Specific…

This publication describes the administration, course content, and organization of the English Advanced Placement Program in New York state. Administrative concerns include the time, educational resources, and number of students necessary for a successful course; the qualifications of the teacher; the ability and interest of the student; and…

Preparations for panel discussions at two New Jersey high schools, where college professors evaluated local student College Board Writing Samples in terms of freshman composition standards for the high school English departments, are described. Procedures for the selection of samples written by area students, selection of college professors for…

This 1968-69 survey of adult basic education (ABE) in New Hampshire sought to collect basic data, to provide an innovative survey approach, and to develop an effective means of program expansion for over 56,000 foreign born and other adults with less than an eighth grade educational level. Interviews were held, and 21 ABE classes visited in nine…

A study to facilitate computer generation of test items succeeded in developing a set of criteria which could be used by a computer to select sentences suitable for sentence completion question items. The sentence completion item requires the student to complete a sentence from which one or more words have been deleted. Analysis of 110 appropriate…