THIS RESEARCH WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FORMAL LEARNING CURVES OF STUDENTS TAUGHT SPANISH IN A TELEVISION-CORRESPONDENCE COURSE AND THOSE TAUGHT SPANISH IN THE CONVENTIONAL MANNER. AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF OVER 20 STUDENTS IN 5 SMALL HIGH SCHOOLS WAS GIVEN INSTRUCTION IN SPANISH FOR 1 YEAR, ENTIRELY BY…

THE EFFECTS OF USING A COMBINATION OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION AND CONVENTIONAL TEACHING PROCEDURES ON RETENTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE MATERIAL WERE STUDIED. THE ORIGINAL LEARNING MATERIAL PERTAINED TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION. MEASURES OF RETENTION WERE OBTAINED BY READMINISTERING AN 80-ITEM CRITERION TEST (APPENDED TO THE REPORT)…

This comparison of the cost effectiveness of conventional, individualized, computer-assisted (CAI) and computer-managed instruction (CMI) for military training is based on data drawn from experiments of limited duration with relatively few students. All findings are confounded by effects that may be due to either CAI or CMI in comparison to…

This study examined the relationship between various levels of teacher restriction or accommodation of student behaviors and the levels of interest shown by pupils in certain types of classroom activities. A total of six first grade teachers in two schools were given the Open Program Structure Index (OPSI) and, based on their scores, were rated…

This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of two methods of individualized instruction compared to the traditional textbook-lecture method in teaching introductory accounting courses. The two experimental class sections and the control class section involved in the study enrolled a total of 71 students. In the first individualized…

To determine whether significant differences exist between a class taught generative rhetoric and a class taught traditional methods of writing, a strategy was developed for teaching the generative rhetoric of the sentence and the paragraph in a first-semester composition course composed of average students. The 56 subjects were randomly assigned…

A comparison was made of the effectiveness of two direct methods of vocabulary instruction with college freshmen in compulsory remedial reading classes. The two methods tested were a programed approach, "EDL Word Clues," and a more conventional approach using the dictionary with lessons patterned after the format used by H. C. Hardwick in "Words…

A leadership course for Army officers used sound films for the presentation of officer problems, based on descriptions of leadership situations collected from Army officers and NCO's in combat and noncombat areas. Each film terminated at the point where the leader was faced with making a decision and taking action; a small group discussion…

This study was initiated to make a preliminary evaluation of the effects of Montessori education when children continued with the same method in public schools that they experienced in prekindergarten. Subjects were 72 black 5- and 6-year-olds from lower-middle and lower economic class families. There were two experimental classes in nongraded…

A self-instructional program for teaching elementary descriptive statistics was developed. The program consisted of 35 mm. slide-and-tape presentations of twenty half-hour lessons. To test the effectiveness of this approach, students majoring in elementary education were divided into four treatment groups. One group used the self-instructional…

The effects on written composition of two reading approaches--traditional orthography (TO) and the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.)--are compared. Two hundred and ninety-three first graders and 391 second graders, half of whom had learned reading with TO and half with i.t.a., were each asked to write two compositions. These essays were rated on…

This topical paper examined students' views on individualized instruction versus the traditional approach. The purpose of the study was: (1) to measure student acceptance of the concept of individualized instruction; (2) to identify positive and negative factors of individualized instruction as perceived by students; and (3) to identify the…

Three visual media--sequential still photographs, slides, and motion pictures--were investigated to discover how effectively each of the three help to convey concepts involving time, space, and motion. A total of 594 subjects were selected from an introductory independent-study course in botany and randomly assigned to one of the three…

A PROGRAM OF INDEPENDENT STUDY WAS DEVELOPED FOR COURSES IN THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF EDUCATION REQUIRED IN A TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM. THREE GROUPS OF STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN THIS PROGRAM OF FOUR COURSES--(1) HUMAN LEARNING, (2) CHILD DEVELOPMENT, (3) PERSONALITY, AND (4) EVALUATION. ONE GROUP WAS ASSIGNED, A SECOND VOLUNTEERED, AND A…

During the first semester of the 1961-62 school year, students from eleven mathematics classes at seven high schools participated in a test of programed math materials. A control group composed of five classes was taught from a regular text by their math teachers; the experimental group contained six classes which were taught the same content via…