Two federal educational programs are covered in this annual report for FY 1969: Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Title III of the National Defense Education Act. The first report describes how the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, and…

This annual report reviews progress for fifteen scope-of-work items of the National Center for Career Education's (NCCE) Career Education Information Training and Instructional Materials System (CEITAIMS) (September 1978-September 1979). These results to date are reported: acquisition of 8,687 items nationally; collection and classification of…

This document represents the fifth of five components of a project conducted to design a comprehensive information system (termed SYSTEM) for identifying, selecting, and disseminating relevant military curriculum materials to civilian vocational and technical education programs. This particular document suggests the design, operating procedures,…

This manual is designed to help Army training personnel select and implement a specific approach to achieving specific training goals. Following a general learning model, general training principles are summarized. The rest of the manual shows how specific learning principles are associated with groups of learner performances. Training goals…

The Materials Acquisition Project was created by the Bilingual Education Programs Branch of the U.S. Office of Education to make available information concerning instructional materials currently published in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries to teachers of elementary and secondary bilingual-bicultural education classes in the United…

Designed as a practical guide for school librarians, this text outlines the functional procedures in the evaluation, selection, and utilization of print and nonprint materials and equipment. Part I focuses on the planning and administration of the school library. Part II includes planning and building of the collection. Part III provides…

Volume 1 of the two-volume annotated bibliography provides a partial listing of available materials for curriculum and instructional enrichment in distributive education. The grouping of all materials was made according to the U. S. Office of Education Classification of Instructional Programs for Distributive Education. Alphabetized by title under…

Volume 2 of the two-volume annotated bibliography provides a partial listing of available materials for curriculum and instructional enrichment in distributive education. The grouping of all materials was made according to the U. S. Office of Education Classification of Instructional Programs for Distributive Education. Alphabetized by title under…

A careful reading of Cronbach and Snow's "Aptitudes and Instructional Methods" reveals that an aptitude-treatment-interaction (ATI) approach is not just a research methodology but is, in fact, a theory oriented philosophy of proposed revision in curriculum and instructional methodology. It is our contention that as a theoretical argument…

The Instructional Technology Course for Teachers (ITCT) is a 15-week course to provide practicing teachers with an introduction to the use of technology in instruction. It can be used either in colleges or in school system in-service programs. The ITCT curriculum is composed of eight self-contained units of instruction, which can be put together…

Proceedings of the Second Stony Brook Workshop are outlined in this paper. Discussions of six sectional meetings are summarized including: (1) pretesting and posttesting; Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring, (2) the role of media, (3) humane grading mini-packers, and flexible granting of credit, (4) individualized instruction: selection,…

This publication addresses videoconferencing (VC) in technical and further education in Britain. It discusses choosing a system, issues in getting a system up and running, and getting the best out of the system. Chapter 1 defines what VC is, lists ways to use it, describes three basic types of VC (desktop units, roll-abouts, studio/room-sized…

A thematic unit on folk literature designed for middle school English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) instruction, for students with beginner to intermediate level skills, is presented. The intention in introducing literature at these levels is to provide positive experiences with literature in the target language, and to introduce the target culture.…

Teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) are encouraged to conduct classroom research to (1) discover what happens when they teach and students try to learn, assess and improve teaching practices; monitor innovations in teaching, syllabus, or materials; and investigate problems in the classroom. Simple steps are outlined: developing a plan…

The goals of this assessment of electronic government information products were to: identify medium and format standards that are the most appropriate for permanent public access; assess the cost-effectiveness and usefulness of various alternative medium/format standards; and identify public and private medium/format standards that could be used…