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Download full textPAINTER, GENEVIEVE – 1965
RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES OBSERVED AT SIX SUMMER DAY CAMPS (REPRESENTATIVE OF 26 SUCH CAMPS SPONSORED BY THE KENNEDY FOUNDATION) ARE REPORTED. EACH CAMP WAS VISITED AND THE FIRST 25 ACTIVITIES PRESENTED WERE ANALYZED BY ONE OF TWO THEORETICAL MODELS. THE MODEL FOR MEANINGFUL (COGNITIVE) ACTIVITIES WAS USED TO RATE ACTIVITIES IN TERMS OF…
Descriptors: Adults, Camping, Children, Day Camp Programs
GLOVER, J.H. – 1966
THE CHIEF OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY OF SPEED-SKILL ACQUISITION WAS TO FIND A MATHEMATICAL MODEL CAPABLE OF SIMPLE GRAPHIC INTERPRETATION FOR INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND PRODUCTION SCHEDULING AT THE SHOP FLOOR LEVEL. STUDIES OF MIDDLE SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN MACHINE AND VEHICLE ASSEMBLY, AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION, SPOOLMAKING AND THE MACHINING OF PARTS CONFIRMED…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training, Job Skills, Learning Plateaus
Kwalick, Barry, Ed.; Slaughter, Virginia, Ed. – 1980
The proceedings of the fourth annual Association of Writing Supervisors within the City University of New York (CUNY) are offered in this special newsletter issue. The papers from the proceedings are organized under the five thematic strands of the conference, which confronted the central issues of writing instruction at CUNY. The five strands are…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment
Dunn, James A. – 1980
The Instructional Support System for Occupational Education (ISSOE) project, conducted in New York, focused on (1) review of individualized education systems, (2) selection of appropriate occupational clusters, and (3) development and field testing of a system and materials. A product of the Managing Student Progress series of the ISSOE program,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Guidance
Plank, David N.; Peterson, Paul E. – 1980
This paper examines the relationship of urban reform and school reform to class conflict and assesses the adequacy of a class conflict model for explaining school reform in Atlanta in 1897. A model which explains urban reform (including school reform in urban areas) in class conflict categories is based on an ideology protective of middle-class…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Magidson, Jay; Sorbom, Dag – 1980
Evaluations of social programs based upon quasi-experimental designs are typically plagued by problems of nonequivalence between the experimental and comparison group prior to the experiment. In such settings it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to isolate the effects of the program from the confounding effects associated with the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Experimental Groups
Harper, Mary-Angela – 1979
The rationale of shared responsibility by the hierarchy and the laity for directing Catholic school and non-school religious educational programs is clearly present in the Vatican Council II documents, which state that members of the laity should be involved in all decisions affecting their lives and that appropriate structures should be…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools
Paul, Douglas A. – 1977
The purpose of this review is twofold--to summarize the major models of educational change and to present a series of generalizations based on recent empirical studies about educational change. In the first section, previous reviews of the change literature are presented in order to establish a broad perspective concerning research in this area.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Bibliographies, Change Agents, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Stevens, W. Williams, Jr.; And Others – 1978
These seven papers address problems of teaching about state government and politics at the secondary level and provide a framework and suggestions for improving the curriculum. The first paper analyzes the current civics curriculum and notes that textbooks underemphasize state government and overemphasize the structure and the formal procedures of…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Civics, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Problems
LeBold, William K.; And Others – 1978
A model program for freshman women in engineering was field tested and evaluated at the Purdue University Department of Freshman Engineering. The course, open to men and women, was designed to provide more equitable educational opportunities through hands-on laboratories, career education, and role-model lectures on energy, environment,…
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Conference Reports
Gordon, Helen H. – 1979
A study of two groups of students at Sacramento City College (California) was undertaken in Fall, 1978, to determine whether the holistic approach to the teaching of basic writing (involving the techniques of free writing, writing from stimulus words, and controlled composition) could result in more significant gains in fluency and reduction of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations, English
Noble, Grant – 1979
Australian studies show that television assists in the socialization of immigrants, changing and shaping their self-images and perceptions of reality and fostering their interpersonal communication skills. Studies conducted to evaluate the introduction of television have found that television helps in the vocabulary development of young children.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Associative Learning, Communication Skills, Educational Television
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1977
In order to analyze the California system of community college finance within a national context, a review of recent literature was followed by an intensive study and survey of eight states, chosen to illustrate alternative solutions to California financing problems. National trends among community colleges that emerged included (1) the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational Trends, Equal Education
Valencia, Atilano A. – 1972
Divided into seven sections, this publication includes discussions of the nature of bilingualism and its implications to curriculum and instruction, the effects of bilingualism and bilingual education, biculturalism and bicultural education, bilingual education materials and assessment instruments, teacher training in bilingual-bicultural…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingualism
Sheehan, Bernard S.; Hillman, Barbara J. – 1979
The student traceback model is described and is used to demonstrate various concepts relative to institutional research methodology. The methodology of the problem-solving institutional researcher includes a wide spectrum of how-to's: how to anticipate issues in higher education and estimate their practical institutional impact; how to develop the…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Conference Reports, Curriculum Development
