The Berkeley Unified School District annually administers achievement tests covering the skills areas of reading, language, and arithmetic. All grades, one through twelve, are tested in reading. The Cooperative Primary Test is used in the first, second, and third grades since it is the State-mandated instrument. Grades four through twelve are also…

Composed of articles recently published in "Educational Technology" magazine, this issue of the review series focuses on computers and education. Areas of this interface which are covered by the articles included computer-assisted and computer-managed instructional systems, educational relevance of computers in education costs, computer…

This book--based on Cooperative Research Project No. 1994 (see ED 010 163)--reports the results of a 5-year study which examined outstanding English programs in 158 primarily metropolitan high schools in 45 states, and identified aspects of these programs which might be emulated or improved. Questionnaires were analyzed on data processing…

This survey of the history of world cinema begins with the "Pre-history" of film making and covers developments, by major periods, through 1972. The film making of all major countries, except Australia, receives attention, and the appendixes contain a note on animated films, a selected filmographies list, and a bibliography. Aspects of…

This book offers an overview of the reading diagnosis process, emphasizing specific informal testing techniques for use in the classroom. In addition to presenting specific testing instruments, the book discusses the theory and practice of diagnosis teaching, describes the instruments and the rationale for their use, and offers specific guidance…

This discussion of verbal communication seeks to bring a new "unity" and order into the study of linguistics, to make linguistics truly an interdisciplinary science, and to communicate more effectively with the outside world, peopled by those who do not speak linguistic jargon. The particular linguistic problem here is an exploratory…

Reading skill can be acquired in a natural and informal manner and in a variety of settings ranging from the school to the streets. Anyone who wants to learn to read or to develop his reading ability can do so if the following conditions are satisfied: (1) A person who knows how to read and wants to share his knowledge is willing to help. (2)…

The 35 papers presented at the 1965 International Conference on the Teaching of English, sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English of the United States and the National Association for the Teaching of English of Great Britain, are collected in this volume. In the first section, the aims and purposes of teaching English in the United…

The National Instructional Television Center (NIT) aims to reduce the time of bringing about educational innovation from the usual 15 years, achieved through traditional means like pre-service education and workshops, to five years. Its procedure in doing this is to identify significant ideas and translate them into useful television programs.…

This curriculum guide is designed to help teachers plan a course of individualized instruction in language arts skills for seventh and eighth grade below-average learners. The guide includes a list of teacher objectives, a list of student objectives, a description of three diagnostic tests in reading and listening skills, and some examples of…

Audiovisual aids currently in use in the Quincy, Mass., public schools are evaluated in terms of how well they meet performance objectives for a particular course. The materials range from nursery to senior high school level in the curriculum areas of art, music, social studies, communications, science, mathematics, health and physical education,…

A course in the Bible as Literature is presented. It is an examination of significant selections from the old and new testaments, representing universality in theme, diversity in literary genre, and consideration of biblical language. Performance objectives for the student include: (1) proposal of reasons for studying the Bible as literature, (2)…

The purpose of this paper is to formulate objectives pertaining to knowledge, thinking, attitudes, and skills for a methods course for prospective teachers of English in desegregated high schools, to discuss the selection and organization of course content, to illustrate the principle that prospective teachers learn to teach by performing and…

In this U.S. Commission on Civil Rights report, denial of equal opportunity to Mexican Americans by exclusionary practices in public schools is examined through information gathered at a Commission on Civil Rights hearing and a subsequent 1969 survey of school districts in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas having enrollments of…

A series of seven experiments provided information on the relationship between the learning of prose and the structural importance of the linguistic subunits. Five samples of prose, including narrative folktales and two samples of textual prose, were studied to determine whether the patterning of learning corresponded to the structural importance…