USE OF THE VERBAL REINFORCEMENT TECHNIQUE (VRT) IN DEVELOPMENTAL, PERSONALITY, AND SOCIALIZATION STUDIES OFTEN RESTS ON TENUOUS AND UNTESTED ASSUMPTIONS. THIS STUDY EXAMINED FIVE VARIABLES WHICH HYPOTHETICALLY RELATE TO PERFORMANCE UNDER REINFORCEMENT--SELF-ESTEEM OF S. TASK-INVOLVEMENT, EXPERIMENTER, ORDINAL POSITION, AND FAMILY SIZE. THE METHOD…

REFERENCES TO BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS THAT EMPHASIZE THE USE OF RADIOISOTOPES AS TRACERS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. MATERIALS INCLUDED ARE CONSIDERED TO BE READILY AVAILABLE AND WERE PUBLISHED AFTER 1960. SECTION I IS COMPOSED OF SELECTED SOURCES. ENTRIES INCLUDE (1) COMPLETE CITATIONS, (2) A BRIEF ANNOTATION, AND (3) LISTS OF…

TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF MULTIPLE RESPONSE ALTERNATIVES AS CONSTRAINTS ON THE MEANING OF THE CORRECT RESPONSE, 200 SUBJECTS IN AN INTRODUCTORY EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY COURSE WERE RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO 8 TREATMENT GROUPS VARYING ITEM DIFFICULTY, RESPONSE AND SELF-CORRECTION (OVERT V. COVERT), PLUS ONE GROUP FOR USUAL LINEAR PROGRAMING INSTRUCTION.…

IN AN EXPERIMENT TO TEST EFFECTS OF A PROGRAMED TEXT AND RECORDS IN MUSIC INSTRUCTION, A PRE-TEST ON WRITTEN THEORY AND AURAL RESPONSE GIVEN TO 957 STUDENTS IN NINE SCHOOLS IN AN EXPERIMENTAL AND A MATCHED CONTROL GROUP SHOWED SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES FOR THOSE WITH PREVIOUS PRIVATE MUSIC STUDY AND HIGHER GRADE POINT AVERAGES, BUT NO DIFFERENCES ON…

THE CONTENT OF THREE LECTURES PROVIDED THE BASIS FOR DISCUSSION AT THESE SEMINARS--(1) ALTHOUGH THE JUNIOR COLLEGE TEACHER IS MORE INTERESTED IN HIS STUDENTS AND IN RESEARCH TO IMPROVE TEACHING THAN IS HIS 4-YEAR COLLEGE COUNTERPART, HIS PROBLEMS DIFFER CHIEFLY IN DEGREE FROM THOSE OF THE SENIOR COLLEGE TEACHER. AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER EDUCATION…

SIX SEPARATE STUDIES, ALL CONCERNED WITH GUIDED TRIALS DURING THE LEARNING PROCESS, WERE REPORTED. SPECIFIC ASPECTS COVERED BY THE RESEARCH INCLUDE--(1) GUIDANCE AND SYMBOLIC LEARNING AND (2) GUIDANCE AND SEQUENTIAL LEARNING. VARYING NUMBERS OF COLLEGE UNDERGRADUATES WERE USED AS SUBJECTS IN THE SIX EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES. THESE INCLUDED--(1)…

THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE WHETHER SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES OCCUR IN MASTERY OF A COLLEGE COURSE LECTURE-DISCUSSION TYPE FOR FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES WHEN STUDENTS USE PROGRAMED MATERIALS OF INSTRUCTION RATHER THAN STANDARD TEXTBOOKS. FOUR STANDARD AND FOUR PROGRAMED SECTIONS WERE USED FOR COMPARATIVE PURPOSES. STUDENTS SELECTED THESE…

This collection of student activities for grades four through twelve presents action-oriented experiences with hardy aquatic organisms as the foundation for a laboratory-oriented science program. The format is characterized by pre-lab, post-lab, and student sections. Pre-lab topics include level, concepts, facts, suggested prerequisite skills,…

This document contains student progress checks designed for use with individualized modules 20-22 in the military-developed course on basic electricity and electronics. The course is one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to vocational instructional and curriculum development in a civilian setting. One…

A study was designed to determine whether different training procedures could change specific behaviors of 39 intern teachers and their pupils in secondary school social studies classes. Interns were randomly assigned to four training groups each of which received typescripts from the 1953 McCarthy investigations which were to be used the next day…

This volume contains the five major addresses and subsequent discussion from the Symposium on the General Linear Models Approach to the Analysis of Experimental Data in Educational Research, which was held in 1967 in Athens, Georgia. The symposium was designed to produce systematic information, including new methodology, for dissemination to the…

Volume 1 of this study describes and costs two possible satellite networks which could be used in education in Canada. In order to determine whether these networks were plausible or useful, a letter and a description of the two hypothetical networks were sent, before the cost study was completed, to all Canadian Universities and provincial…

Subjects judged the behavior of a target person who had helped or not helped a person in distress while the target person was either alone or with confederates who also had helped or not helped. In addition, subjects were told that either (1) 80 percent of all persons tested had helped, (2) 20 percent had helped, or (3) nothing about the…

An attempt has been made to show how the problem of data bias had been approached, conceptualized and studied. A review of some of the major studies in the area of research artifacts is presented. Following each major topic, suggestions for future research are discussed. The difficulty in complying with the current APA guidelines on ethics is also…

This booklet is one of the "Understanding the Atom" Series. Consisting of three sections, it is an account of the development of the first nuclear reactor by a team of scientists led by Enrico Farmi. The first section briefly reviews the early work on nuclear fission and neutron emission, the impact of Einstein's letter to President…