This document presents supporting material for the argument that performance based (competency based) teacher education (PBTE) is more cost-effective, and rated higher by participating students, than a non-performance based teacher education program. The paper compares the System for Individually Guided Mastery Attainment (SIGMA) and traditional…

The present study tested four predictions concerning the effects of instructional objectives as an adjunct aid in learning through the lecture method. First, the inclusion of objectives with the lecture was postulated to result in greater learning from the lecture. Second, objectives presentation by subsets was predicted to facilitate performance…

The predictive utility of a proposed need-press competence (NPC) model of satisfaction was compared with that of the traditional need-press fit model. Structured interviews with 30 residents from two nursing homes provided measures of needs, press, competence, and satisfaction. The NPC model was a better predictor of expressed satisfaction than…

Forty-three students in a developmental English course participated in a study to discover whether students' writing would improve and their satisfaction with the course would be increased if they were permitted to revise their papers after the papers were marked but before they were graded rather than after the papers were both marked and graded,…

Former occupational-technical students were questioned as to their attitudes toward their community college programs. The large majority of respondents rated their overall experience very high, and said they would recommend their college to someone seeking the same program. Social activities, however, were rated quite low. Women and graduates were…

Since Somerton first became a demonstration school for migrant child education in 1967, three versions of the "The Somerton Story" have been prepared by consultants and the Somerton administration. However, these publications lacked the students' viewpoint on the new approaches to educating children. Therefore, this version was written…

The Augmented Human Intellect (AHI) system is a computer-based system designed to store, structure, and retrieve textual information in a way congruent with the characteristics of the individual. It provides for the hierarchical ordering of information and for the manipulation of text through a system of cross-referencing, modification, and…

Since 1966 the Department of Business and Office Administration at the Jefferson Davis (JD) Campus of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College has conducted follow-up studies of all students who were enrolled in any of its courses. Between 1966 and 1970, studies of each student group were conducted at one- and two-year intervals; since 197l,…

The study, an attempt to determine the overall effectiveness of the educational experiences provided at the Adult Basic Education regional workshops in Tennessee, used a questionnaire to gather demographic data and participant reaction to various facets of the workshops and an evaluation scale to obtain overall participant reaction to the…

Reported are reviews of the Cornell-OEO Project in South Brooklyn by the family assistants--women who lived in the community and worked with the families served. The collection of statements are presented as they were dictated or written. When the statement was in Spanish it was translated to English. These statements of the family assistants…

This is the final in a series of evaluative documentations on the 1976 Teacher Corps Conference. It is based on an extensive review of the information submitted on pre- and post-conference assessment forms, on individual session forms, on project team forms, and on extensive and numerous written comments. The focus of the critique was to analyze…

Attitudes toward cooperation and competition were virtually independent across grades 2 to 12. Cooperativeness was consistently related to a broad range of positive attitudes toward schooling experience at all grade levels. Competitiveness changed its pattern of correlates, showing relationships to several positive attitudes only in school. (BJG)