Reports research into the relationship between compressed motion pictures and the learning of psychomotor tasks. Concludes that an instructional sound film demonstrating a simple psychomotor task can be compressed to rates up to 33 1/3 percent for immediate measures and 50 percent for delayed measures without significantly affecting students'…

Selected results from the research completed under the Effective Teacher Education Program is presented, and ways are explored in which this research can be applied to teaching. (MM)

Reports a study to analyze relationships between noverbal skills acquired by preservice science teachers in a methods course and their application during student teaching. Microteaching format was used in the experimental group to develop nonverbal cues and silence. Analysis indicated experimental preservice science teachers differed significantly…

Tutored Ss displayed significantly greater achievement gains than Ss instructed in a classroom setting when time, the curricula, and teacher differences were held constant. (Authors)

Results revealed a disordinal interaction such that while the teacher-centered mode optimized learning for high-anxious students, the student-centered approach resulted in superior exam performance for low-anxious students. (Authors)

Purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a hierarchically arranged instructional program in multiple classification, which refers to the ability to define a class by two or more attributes simultaneously. (Authors/MB)

Examines research dealing with methods of teaching punctuation that go as far back as 1900. Believes findings explain why English teachers are not in agreement on any one specific method of teaching this skill. (RB)

A survey indicated that British teachers still use vocabulary learning in second language instruction. These two studies suggested that 11-year-olds are quite capable of using the keyword method, modified for group presentation, to learn English meanings of French words and vice versa, for both immediate and delayed tests. (Author/SJL)

This investigation of a college music course examined the effectiveness of a cyclical affective learning paradigm based on the premise that student affect toward a course of instruction will dictate, in part, cognitive performance. Results suggest that teachers would be better advised to concentrate on cognitive instruction than on affect.…

This study introduced to 88 selected adults (aged 60 and older) eight combinations of art curricula and teaching approaches encompassing three components of art education: productive; historical; and critical-appreciative. All eight experimental groups made similar improvement in the aesthetic quality of their art products. (Author/SJL)

To identify an easy and effective method by which the classroom teacher can expand student art preferences, this study examined three suggested approaches: habituation; art criticism (Feldman-Mittler Methodology); and art production (studio activities). Combinations of these approaches were studied in interaction with students' grade level. (SJL)

Problems of rural development in less developed countries and ways of organizing a foreign aid program are examined. (MF)

Results of an experimental study to compare telelecture with traditional lecture methods in a teacher education program. (Editor/TA)

A descriptive analysis of research practices and a meta-analysis of control group effect sizes are used to address Hawthorne effects in educational experiments. The analysis of 86 studies and 256 treatment/Hawthorne/no-treatment control group effect size comparisons indicate that artifact controls have limited utility in dealing with the Hawthorne…