The methods described in this book are designed to allow the teacher who is unfamiliar with the technical characteristics and demands of a computer to prepare instructional materials for computer-assisted tutorial lessons. The techniques are not dependent upon the requirements of a particular CAI system, but are generalized for any system using a…

Guidelines for curriculum design in reading, composition, and grammar and usage are presented in the form of required skills for each of four grades (6-9). Four English examinations designed to test these skills are also provided. Brief comments on examinations in other subject areas offered by the National Association of Independent Schools and a…

The curriculum is the heart of the secondary school and its continuous revision is at once dependent upon the evolution of theories and the emerging needs of society. Curriculum theory may be regarded as a body of beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge derived through a process of critical analysis and substantiated by study and observation. Four…

An analysis of the relationship of language to learning, particularly as it affects "avoidance behaviors" of remedial readers in the classroom, strongly emphasized the importance of greater stress on oral language development. New concern for cognitive and personality development in children stresses the role of language as an interaction medium…

This book presents the highlights of the twenty-second annual reading conference at Lehigh University which covered a multitude of topics related to practices of classroom reading instruction. The contents include "Creativity in Teaching Reading,""A Consumers' Report on Learning to Read,""Open Education: What Is It?""Primary Reading--What Is…

This book provides an overview of work in the area of modular instruction and offers practical information for individualized instruction through the implementation of the modular design. Written for the classroom teacher, the book includes sample modules used at elementary, secondary, and college levels of instruction. Chapters include…

The purposes of this study were to provide a system of classification of the motivational characteristics of the high-risk student, to submit this system to instructors of a selected sample of high-risk students for their classification of the students, to test the reliability of the raters by an analysis of variance formula, and to design a…

The learning module facilitates public cognizance of learning goals and objectives, specified competencies, learning activities, assessment modes, and criteria levels. These modules enable pre- and inservice teachers to achieve specified competencies in teaching reading and language arts. The rationale for the use of the learning module as the…

This document defines performance testing as the task of determining how well performance objectives are mastered by learners. Examples are provided for teachers who have to conduct performance testing with industrial standards. Stress is laid on communicating and exchanging materials with colleagues. A reporting form is included which shows how…

This report is intended to provide school authorities with information useful in arranging courses of study and in providing proper conditions, to assist teachers in choosing instructional materials and in handling them according to the best teaching methods available, and to lay a foundation for articulating the movement for improved teaching of…

Reports on a third account of a longitudinal investigation of the effects of the installation of a curriculum engineering system in a suburban Illinois elementary school district. A system of curriculum engineering is explained as involving the organization of all personnel in the school district in the performance of the two primary functions of…

This dissertation describes the development of an introductory course in Afro-American literature for the community college, including goals, rationale, text selection, sample lectures, and class materials. Two lecture sets are provided which include background information for the course. The topic, "Historical Incidents Affecting the Development…

Based on a coordinated aural-oral approach, this language arts curriculum guide was developed to teach Navajo students English as a second language. The design of the curriculum provides for longitudinal and horizontal movements to favor concept formation by inductive experience. The plan gears instruction to three instructional levels: low (the…

Results of a 1972 survey of speech communication education in Texas secondary schools indicate that the traditional activities-oriented method still prevails. Competitive activities receive high priority and quite probably influence development of the speech curriculum. There is little attention paid to communication theory or to the behavioral…

The first two papers in this volume discusses the results of questionnaires intended for primary and secondary teachers to elicit information on current issues in the teaching of English in Australia. It was learned that secondary teachers reached consensus only on the very broadest levels. They all agreed that literature, communication, and…