Based on dissertation for EdD degree at Oregon State University (1967).

CONTROLLED CLASSROOM EXPERIMENTS ATTEMPTED TO ESTABLISH A BASIS FOR EVALUATING THE COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE WRITING ACT ITSELF, DRILL ON USAGE AND MECHANICS, SELF-INSTRUCTION, GROUP DISCUSSION, THEME CORRECTION AND CRITICISM, AND IMMEDIATE TUTORIAL FEEDBACK. EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED WITH ALMOST 300 STUDENTS IN GRADES 8 THROUGH 12. IT WAS…

SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR THE DEAF WERE DEVELOPED TO DETERMINE IF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN WRITTEN LANGUAGE COULD BE REDUCED. PRELIMINARY ANALYSES WERE MADE ON THE LANGUAGE OF DEAF STUDENTS AND USED AS A GUIDE FOR THE SELECTION OF GRAMMAR MATERIAL TO BE PROGRAMED. ONE CONTROL GROUP AND TWO EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS WERE USED IN THE STUDY. THE SAMPLES CONSISTED…

TO DETERMINE THE COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMED AND CONVENTIONAL WORKBOOK METHODS OF TEACHING GRAMMAR, SENTENCE STRUCTURE, PUNCTUATION, AND CAPITALIZATION, PRE- AND POST-TEST SCORES IN FOUR REMEDIAL ENGLISH SECTIONS WERE COMPARED. TWO TEACHERS PARTICIPATED IN THE EXPERIMENT, WITH EACH CONDUCTING A WORKBOOK SECTION AND A PROGRAMED SECTION.…

This chapter of "The Best of the Best of ERIC," Volume 2, contains 15 summaries of documents and journals on the back-to-basics controversy, all of which are indexed in either "Resources in Education" or "Current Index to Journals in Education." The materials included deal with various aspects of the topic, such as…

The "Curriculum for Meeting Modern Problems" was tested by the Project Evaluator in 36 Classrooms in 10 communities within the State of Ohio. Two areas of investigation were established. The first area was conceived as follows: Do students who are subjected to the experimental treatment learn to apply their knowledge about behavior and…

This study was conducted to show how a teacher's training affects his or her attitudes toward teaching. Twelve statements dealing with various aspects of education in relation to subject and student oriented instruction were distributed to 15 traditionally prepared teachers and 15 Teacher Corps prepared teachers. Each participant indicated in…

Examined the relationship between students' grade level, sex, and attitudes toward the open classroom. Subjects were 2,000 students in grades 1-8. (JMB)

Describes a method of instruction and a system of teaching that befits the role of what is called the "traditional" teacher, pointing out that teaching is an art and not a science. (GA)

The Wallach-Kogan Tests of Creativity and the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills were administered to 129 second-grade students in either open classrooms or traditional classrooms. No consistent differences in fluency or uniqueness scores were found. Students in traditional classrooms scored consistently higher in vocabulary, reading, and mathematics…

This is an attempt to come up with the intermediate steps for moving from essentially traditional instructional situations toward realization of the ideal models or processes toward which most people in the field of performance/instructional technology are striving at any given time. (VT)

Compared results of teaching courses using the lecture method with courses incorporating televised instruction. Findings indicate no significant difference in the amount of learning (academic achievement) between telecourse students and students in parallel on-campus courses. (JN)

The use of the College Outcome Measures Project (COMP) to compare graduates of traditional and nontraditional programs is described. Results obtained in a study of 96 University of Minnesota graduating seniors suggest greater usefulness in distinguishing among institutions than in comparing outcomes of programs within an institution. (Author/MLW)

The competency-based approach is used in teaching educational measurement during a five-week summer session. (SK)

This study, conducted in Knox County, Tennessee, compared retention scores of students using traditional learning methodologies to retention scores of students taught using cooperative learning strategies. Participants (n=23) remained the same during both phases of instruction. A comparison of posttest scores of a fifth grade social studies unit…