This secondary unit of instruction on working with people is one of sixteen Common Core Units in Business Education (CCUBE). The units were designed for implementing the sixteen common core competencies identified in the California Business Education Program Guide for Office and Distributive Education. Each competency-based unit is designed to…

This report summarizes the activities and outcomes of a planning project responsible for delineating and determining priorities of crucial, researchable issues in teacher education. The following considerations were made: (1) What does research and development suggest for the content of preservice, induction, and inservice teacher education? (2)…

A three-year study evaluated the cognitive and affective effect of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) on adult basic education (ABE) students at the Great Neck Adult Learning Centers. The system was used by learning laboratory students in 1977 and by both learning laboratory and classroom students from 1977-1979. The 100 students enrolled from…

This packet contains the materials necessary for presentation of the fifth of ten modules that comprise a portion of the National Training and Development Service Urban Management Curriculum Development Project. This module focuses on cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis, a methodology for coping with the problem of allocating scarce…

Activities and objectives for helping elementary school pupils develop a multiethnic and multicultural orientation toward American history and culture are presented in this teacher's guide. The major objective was to develop an interdisciplinary educational program which would influence young children in a positive way as they developed life-long…

The document contains student materials and teacher's guides for two units in which students analyze clothing advertisements in newspapers. The units are appropriate for reading and mathematics classes in grades 4-6. Objectives for Unit I include identifying descriptive words used in clothing ads, categorizing words found in clothing ads, and…

The document contains student materials and teacher's guides for two units in which students analyze grocery advertisements in newspapers. The units are appropriate for language arts and mathematics classes in grades 4-6. Objectives for Unit I include discriminating between an advertisement and a news article, identifying foods for sale in ads,…

This unit of study provides teaching guidelines and student material intended for use in high school advanced industrial arts programs. The objective is to help students plan and purchase equipment for a home workshop. A necessary prerequisite is a knowledge of the operations and uses of the equipment involved. The material is divided into five…

This paper presents some reasons for reconsidering the use of discrete structure-point tests of language proficiency, and suggests an alternative basis for designing proficiency tests. Discrete point tests are one of the primary tools of the audio-lingual method of teaching a foreign language and are based on certain assumptions, including the…

This is the third of three volumes intended to be used as pedagogical materials in advanced Urdu courses at Western colleges and universities. An optional set of tape recordings and an optional set of 35mm slides accompany the three-volume work. Volume III first includes an appendix describing the phonemic alphabet (with rough correspondences to…

Educational communication materials intended for a professional reference shelf are listed in this bibliography of 284 books, handbooks, catalogs and indexes published from 1949 to 1971. Entries include bibliographic information as well as ED numbers for ERIC documents included, some prices, and some short annotations. Materials are grouped in the…

The Design Lab Manual provides a detailed description of various types of Design Labs used in the USMES program. Chapters cover the USMES Design Lab concept; tone of Design Lab activities; in-class Design Lab; portable Design Lab; the Design Lab room; cost/scrounging; staffing and scheduling a Design Lab; Design Lab training for teachers; Design…

The culturally different child has traditionally been characterized as belonging both to a low socioeconomic status and to a racial minority group. The culturally different child is also characterized by a poor self concept and a slower rate of learning. These characterizations can be traced to the differences in environment that the child…

These traditional stories in the Tanaina Athapaskan language (Talkeetna dialect) are intended for competent speakers of the Alaskan language who have knowledge of the writing system. An interlinear English translation is included as well as a free English translation. (NCR)

This story in the Tanaina Athapascan language (Susitna dialect) is about a Tanaina Chief and tells about Tanaina life in the nineteenth century. It is intended for competent speakers of the Alaskan language who have knowledge of the writing system. An interlinear English translation is included as well as a free English translation. (NCR)