The relative impact of ontogenetic and sociocultural change on life satisfaction over the adult age-span (ages 30-73) is investigated. Independent random-sampling data are examined for changes occurring over a four-year period, with tests administered in 1973 and 1977. The results of an age x time measurement x race time-sequential analysis and a…

A SEQUENTIAL MATHEMATICS PROGRAM BEGINNING WITH THE BASIC FUNDAMENTALS ON THE FOURTH GRADE LEVEL IS PRESENTED. INCLUDED ARE AN UNDERSTANDING OF OUR NUMBER SYSTEM, AND THE BASIC OPERATIONS OF WORKING WITH WHOLE NUMBERS--ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION, AND DIVISION. COMMON FRACTIONS ARE TAUGHT IN THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND SEVENTH GRADES. A…

THE BULLETIN WAS ISSUED TO ASSIST IN PREPARING A COURSE IN LINE WITH COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION BOARD'S ADVANCED PLACEMENT PROGRAM, FOR STUDENTS GIFTED IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ABILITY. THE TEACHER'S PREPARATION SHOULD QUALIFY HIM TO TEACH LITERATURE AND CULTURE ON A COLLEGE LEVEL. HE MUST BE FLUENT IN THE LANGUAGE AND, PREFERABLY, SHOULD HAVE LIVED…

An overview is offered on the development of a drama unit for middle and junior high school language arts classrooms. A time line of the play unit is presented, indicating a sequence of learning and stage production activities. Appendixes contain sample materials for use during the six-week unit, including signup sheets, a writing assignment on…

One aspect of tutoring skill for technical subjects is individualized, adaptive sequencing of the problems given to students as learning exercises. A Curriculum Information Network (CIN) describes the relationships between the problems in a CAI curriculum and the concepts and skills that they are intended to teach. It is a basis for selecting…

The course contains rationales, objectives, and learning activities divided into task packages for a sequence of 12 typewriting units for the secondary school level. Unit one on the keyboard covers techniques, machine parts, spacing after punctuation and keyboard symbols, and proofreading and erasing. Unit two on typing essentials covers…

A resource unit is devoted to teaching structural linguistics to deaf students, using a discovery approach, in order that they may learn written communication through English grammar. Recurring simple sentence patterns are presented, together with lesson plans for teaching sequential patterning in terms of word function and classification, pattern…

A study was done to see if a teacher-guided, sequentially-arranged program of instruction for kindergarten children used in addition to a regular classroom program is more effective in producing general intellectual gains and specified behavioral characteristics than two instructional alternatives. These alternatives were (1) participation in a…

This preservice education program, begun in 1964, is a 2-year sequences of four interdisciplinary education courses whose objectives are to help students gain a feeling of adequacy as educators and to help them acquire the necessary background and skills for problemsolving in teaching. Important features of the program include independent reading…

Three tasks are described in the development of a Valuing Lexicon: 1) the identification of a hierarchy of cognitive processes; 2) the identification of the affective components; and, 3) the clarification of the relationships between the two. For the purpose of clarifying the development of the lexicon, Krathwohl's hierarchy on what 'valuing'…

These 2 papers describe the development of a computerized class scheduling system aimed at achieving uniform and efficient utilization of staff and physical facilities and a schedule that permits the maximum number of students to fulfill their curricular requirements. In "An Introduction to CUSS," Victor Abell describes the development…

The purpose of a study undertaken by the Center for the Cooperative Study of Instruction was to learn if a set of instructions could be prepared for students of composition which would indicate in behavioral terms what kind of writing was expected of them. These instructions, called "cognitive maps" consisted of a strategy and an exemplar which…

The concept of scaled achievement tests is discussed and a method of selecting those items of a test that form the most scalable (i.e., having the highest coefficient of reproducibility) subset is presented. Sometimes called a monotonic-deterministic model, this type of test assumes that the test items may be sequentially ordered. To determine the…

Working on the premise that the homogeneous grouping of students based on student performance, testing, and recommendations can enable students to develop to their fullest potential, this English curriculum guide for grades seven through twelve is arranged to cover high and/or average achieving students and low achieving students. The guide is…

This book was prepared for elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators to help them in implementing nongradedness. It provides specific models, guidelines, suggestions, and references which could be of practical assistance. The first chapter deals with the problems which teachers face in preparing to implement continuous progress…