This is the report of the field trial and evaluation of an experimental computer-assisted guidance system designed for use by junior and senior high school students. This trial was designed to determine the system's applicability and feasibility in a secondary school setting. It sought also to obtain information on the outcome of its use, both in…

This report of a field study, conducted from 1966 to 1968, discusses the functional relationships between the class structure of Peruvian society and the structure and content of the country's educational system. Four educational subsystems are closely tied to each of the four main social groups: Blancos (upper class, comprising 0.1% of the total…

Research and development activities related to the Personal and Social Development Program (PSDP) are reviewed. This program is a major element in one of the two components constituting the prescriptive phase of a comprehensive guidance system currently being developed. Clarification of program objectives and assumptions, development of student…

An Arab Culture Assimilator, basically a branching type of learning program, was administered to forty-seven subjects in two groups involved in a cross-cultural field study in order to determine the differing effects of varied social reinforcement on learning performance. The conditions of reinforcement were: correct, positive; incorrect,…

A field test was designed and conducted to examine the effectiveness of Arizona-designed career education units, particularly to examine the units' success in terms of their ability to affect positively students' cognitive, affective, and psychomotor behavior according to expressed performance and behavioral objectives. Fourteen career education…

Presented is a Learning Activity Package (LAP) study on ecology. This LAP, designed for use as a part of a high school biology course, contains a rationale for teaching the topic, a list of student objectives (stated in behavioral terms), a list of resources (readings, audiovisual aids, handouts, student activities, group discussion topics), and a…

This is an initial examination of findings from laboratory and field studies done in Israel on the cognition-cultivating functions of media. The studies reasoned that highly explicit presentations of film-mediated operations can be imitated by observers, and that once imitated, they are internalized and can serve as modified mental skills. Two…

The purpose of this study was to design a performance-based module to instruct student teachers in aspects of critical thinking and the teacher behaviors which promote critical thinking in pupils and to conduct a field test of that module. The two hypotheses tested were: student teachers who have experienced a training module which is designed to…

Carter's model of affective relations (1965) and Chaffee's research on cognitive discrepancies and communication (1959) are used to test the hypotheses that increasing an attribute's discriminatory power will increase attribute salience and that increasing the exclusiveness of an object's attributes will increase objective salience. The current…

The first in a series of evaluation reports gives characteristics of sites and approximately 500 students in field tests of Me and My Environment, a 3-year life science curriculum for 13- to 16-year-old educable mentally handicapped (EMH) adolescents. Described are the field test design, which involves 14 data gathering approaches, and the…

This is a study of how children in a small community called Rosepoint, in the vicinity of New Orleans, acquire speech. The author provides essential contextualization for her problem, dealing with family composition, life space, means used to control children, and interaction between members of the household. The author made intensive observations…

Objectives of this educational research conducted in 1969-70 to determine if two categories of variables, socioeconomic level and location (rural, suburban, or urban), affect 6th and 7th grade students in their: 1) acquired economic knowledge; and 2) ability to gain knowledge from an economic program. Classes and teachers were randomly selected…

This is a summary report on the development and implementation of the Child Development Associate Consortium's Credential Award System (CAS). The CAS has as its purpose the assessment of the performance of child care workers and the granting of Child Development Associate (CDA) credentials to those who demonstrate competence in caring for…

Describing information gathered from a three-week (1976) tour of environmental education field studies programs in faculties of education and teachers' colleges located in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Western Germany, this report presents comparative program and text summaries and recommends procedures for the Ontario Ministry of…

This report describes the procedures and results of a field test of an instructional unit intended for upper elementary and secondary teachers who have some access to computers. The unit consists of five booklets covering the rudiments of computer hardware, computer programing languages, the different roles the computer may play in instruction,…