Developed by the North Carolina Curriculum Study Taskforce to meet every student's need to be technologically literate, this technology education course guide outlines a media communications systems course for grades 11-12. After a brief explanation outlining the use of the curriculum guide in an instructional system involving the teacher,…

Systematic activities of the guidance program at the Halstead, Kansas high school--enrollment 215--are used to illustrate what a small rural school can do to help students register and prepare for the ACT (American College Testing Program) and use test results to plan their educational futures. Halstead students' ACT scores consistently exceed…

Volume 1 of the Australian Chemistry Test Item Bank, consisting of two volumes, contains nearly 2000 multiple-choice items related to the chemistry taught in Year 11 and Year 12 courses in Australia. Items which were written during 1979 and 1980 were initially published in the "ACER Chemistry Test Item Collection" and in the "ACER…

The second volume of the Australian Chemistry Test Item Bank, consisting of two volumes, contains nearly 2000 multiple-choice items related to the chemistry taught in Year 11 and Year 12 courses in Australia. Items which were written during 1979 and 1980 were initially published in the "ACER Chemistry Test Item Collection" and in the…

This "minimum teaching essentials" bulletin presents the minimum in basic skills and knowledge which must be taught to students in grades 9-12 in the subject areas of algebra, geometry, and mathematics fundamentals. Each subject area is prefaced with a section on work study skills to be used by students. (APM)

This "minimum teaching essentials" bulletin presents the minimum in basic skills and knowledge which must be taught to New York City school students in the subject areas of English and communication arts. Content areas and performance objectives for each grade in literature, reading, listening, writing, and speaking are listed. (APM)

Curricular analyses, written by experienced teachers and experts, of the 1978 Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress (IIEP) results and teacher expectations regarding citizenship are presented. A random sample of 7,200 Illinois students within 360 schools (grades 4, 8, 11) were tested; results reflected their educational performance in these…

THE AUTHOR TESTED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THERE IS A NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEGREE OF SEGREGATION AND THE ASPIRATION LEVEL OF NEGRO STUDENTS. THE STUDY WAS LIMITED TO NEGRO AND WHITE HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS IN A NEW ENGLAND TOWN. ALTHOUGH HER FINDINGS SHOWED THAT NEGRO HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS DO HAVE LOWER EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS THAN WHITES, THEY…

A study was conducted to determine whether (1) readers would express an awareness of structural disruption in stories, (2) there were developmental differences in the extent to which readers were aware of structural disruption, and (3) there were developmental differences in the types of structural disruptions that disturbed readers. Fifty third…

This project report critiques library print materials used to support grades 10 and 11 social studies curriculum in British Columbia. The data collected are intended to provide a ready reference for school librarians when considering the particular print materials listed. Four criteria were used: readability, format and style, organization, and…

This teaching guide outlines a nine week course on rights and responsibilities for use with junior and senior high school students in Wisconsin. The course consists of ten units and is intended to help students learn about the law, American justice, the Bill of Rights, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to…

In this study, prediction of success in programed learning for students of different personality types was only minimally successful because the dependent variables, which were test scores and final grades, correlated r = 0.52. Ninety-seven 10th and 11th grade mathematics students were individually given the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale which…

A study was conducted to determine whether the study of beginning shorthand would improve the language arts skills of eleventh-grade students. This paper describes the study and lists the findings, which indicated that, for students at the lower and middle achievement levels, beginning shorthand fosters a significant degree of learning in the…

Intended as a tool for cosmetology teachers in Virginia public and private schools, the document is an instructional guide which offers 12 units of study, arranged in a three year course. Materials covered help prepare students for licensure in the State of Virginia and the guide is designed to cover the 1,500 hours required to be spent in the…

The 11th grade English course described in this document consists of a core program for the first semester and three elective minicourses for the second semester. Emphasis in the core program is on the movements, writers, and major works which have dominated American literature as well as on the fundamentals of communication and on learning to…