This report provides an evaluation of a three-year, joint project of in-service teacher training for teachers of Africa in the seventh grade Social Studies curriculum in North Carolina. The four major areas of concern were: 1) Cognitive Knowledge About Africa (including the dispelling of prevalent myths), 2) Teacher Attitudes Toward Change and…

An index provides media staff, library personnel, and educators with a bibliographic guide to commercially produced educational audio tapes. This annotated computerized data base cites over 18,000 titles, filed under approximately 200 curriculum oriented subject and category headings. The index is divided into three principal sections: 1) subject…

An attempt has been made to provide a list of films, tapes, slides, records, etc. which are likely to be of instructional use in elementary schools. A list of the recommending sources, the media indexed by subject and title/author, a producer/distributor index, and an index of subject headings are provided. Technical information, distributor,…

Interest patterns and media preferences (print and television) of boys and girls in grade four and five were studied by subjecting their responses to an interest inventory to separate factor analytic and analysis of variance procedures. The former procedures were used to cluster degree-of-interest responses into larger groupings that could be…

Based on visits to representative microform users and an extensive survey of relevant literature, a study was undertaken to assess the relative importance of factors affecting the acceptability of microforms as reading mediums. The following variables were considered: (1) microform characteristics; (2) equipment design; (3) work station design;…

Though visual literacy is gaining recognition, visual communication is under-utilized by special educators. Children are growing up in a world where much of their learning is visual, and schools which have included visual communication in their curriculums have found that it has enhanced the ability to write, and contributed significantly to…

Selection of instructional materials for business and distributive education programs is increasingly difficult because there are more materials, new courses, and programs, matching instruction to the student, and some teacher options. The writer presents steps for use by school personnel in evaluation and adoption of text materials. (MF)

Explained are the ways in which components of the Learning Resource Centers program are facilitating the use of new educational technology in education programs for handicapped persons. (GW)

Outlines an approach to teaching literature that provides a preliminary sensitization to an assigned literary work by having students invent a story using given elements. This approach involves learners in individual taping of the invented story, thematic vocabulary research, and a class exercise in reconstructing the text by asking questions…

A slide/tape program, composed of photographs taken from Spanish magazines and a recorded commentary, was used to teach students of Spanish about the culture of Spain. The program also provided students with incentive and direction for exploring a wide range of cultural information in Spanish magazines. (CB)

Discusses difficulties in defining instructional systems design (ISD) and presents five ways the field is viewed, ranging from a narrow view emphasizing media selection to a complete ISD view. The ISD view emphasizes five main components: educational theory and research, system analysis, diffusion, consulting/interpersonal relations, and project…

Describes an approach to French literature that looks at the process of making a novel into a film. The technique focuses on comparisons of composition, characters, and language. (MSE)

Examines how school counselors can select and use simulated guidance materials in an elementary school setting, with particular emphasis on computer software. Software rating sheet is included and evaluation criteria for software is discussed in areas of content and technical considerations. (NB)

Presents a decision model for selecting interactive media formats to solve human performance problems in organizations. Training problems and motivational problems are discussed, change strategies and assessment of values and aptitudes are described, and case studies that apply the decision model are included. (LRW)

Suggests the many resources available for searching for Canadian English-as-a-second-language instructional materials, including bibliographies, non-commercial sources, government sources, commercial materials, conference materials, periodicals, films, videos, photos, and sources not necessarily intended for, but useful in, instructional settings.…