Written to help teachers improve health practices of their students, this guide provides a sequential unit approach to health education in grades K through 12. Primary grades 1-6 have suggested units in personal health, nutrition, community health, first aid and safety, consumer health, and mental health. Secondary grades 7-12 consider in…

An experiment was designed to compare the value of the Skinner Teaching Machine with more traditional teaching methods and to compare various means of presenting material via the teaching machine. Material from the United States Navy Basic Electricity course was programed into three series of items: one completion, one multiple choice, and one…

The water jug task model was extended to four variations of the Missionaries--Cannibals river-crossing problem. Different cover stories resulted in large differences in number of illegal moves, but no difference in number of legal moves to solution. The three-stage process model explains both legal and illegal moves. (Author/GDC)

Proposes a teaching viewpoint on comprehension which removes some of the abstraction; the final product is a teaching sequence for comprehension skills that is parallel in form to the teaching sequences commonly used for word recognition. (JM)

Reviews literature relating to conversational analysis, identifying two major approaches which exhibit chronological and methodological differentiations and focusing from a perspective of sequencing. (CB)

Presents five lessons to help secondary level art students see the subjects they draw as they actually appear. The lessons involve portraits, void/solid drawings, surface textures, detailed drawings, and figure drawings. (RM)

A look at how developing countries, specifically Korea, are beginning to look to educational technology as a partial solution to their educational problems. (Author)

Reviews the English curriculum materials developed by the University of Oregon, and the Carnegie Institute of Technology. (DS)

Study is part of an ongoing research program whose cumulatime aim is to generate empirically validated hierarchical curriculum sequences in several basic skill areas appropriate to an early learning curriculum. (Author)

Describes a guidance program for junior high school students. Paper delivered at the Annual Convention of the American Personnel and Guidance Association held in March, 1972, in Chicago, Illinois. (DS)

Purpose of the study was to design, implement, and evaluate an experimental series of sequentially structured lessons in listening to selected contemporary art music, and to discover the effect of a fourteen-week program on the musical preferences of seventh-grade students who participated. (Author)

Results of the field studies show that Head Start children who received training in classification are able to form more groupings and thus have acquired more classification skill than children who participate in the regular Head Start program with no specific additional curricular input. (Author)

Discusses factors the author considers drawbacks of IPI: 1) The strong emphasis on sequence; 2) The validity placed on diagnostic tests; 3) The determination of 85 percent correct responses as a major criterion for determining success; 4) Discussion and interpersonal skills are not developed. (Author/AF)