This booklet is intended to help mainstreamed mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, or learning disabled high school students acquire a basic understanding of the responsibilities and working conditions of radio-TV service persons and to practice basic math skills necessary in the occupation. The first section provides a brief introduction to…

This booklet is intended to help mainstreamed mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, or learning disabled high school students acquire a basic understanding of the responsibilities and working conditions of metal product assemblers and to practice basic math skills necessary in the occupation. The first section provides a brief introduction to…

This report contains administrative summaries for program evaluations of these 11 1983-84 Chapter I, Chapter II, and state compensatory education programs in the Fort Worth Independent School District, Texas. The programs evaluated are the Elementary Resource Teacher/Aide Program; the Chapter I Parochial Reading and Mathematics Program; the…

The volume presents an appraisal of the empirical research in Bilingual Education. Over 180 research studies and project evaluations were reviewed and evaluated for the soundness of their research designs. Chapter I presents a discussion of the types of research conducted in bilingual education. It includes an introduction to the problems…

The "B" testing program of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study, Phase III-B, is summarized. A sample of 146 second grade and 128 fifth grade students completed the reading and mathematics achievement battery, as well as affective scales pertaining to reading, mathematics, and school. The administration procedures, test results, and psychometric…

The "C" testing program, which followed the "A" and "B" tests of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study, is summarized. A sample of 139 second grade and 123 fifth grade students completed the reading and mathematics achievement battery, as well as affective scales regarding reading, mathematics, and school. The administration procedures, test…

To test the hypothesis that self-esteem correlates significantly with both achievement and I.Q. in the same direction, that is, either positively or negatively, 318 eighth grade and 478 fifth grade students were randomly selected. Stanford Achievement Tests and the Otis-Lennon Mental Abilities Test were administered to obtain the respective…

The student workbook for Socmaticas includes 271 activities which require students to utilize data from soccer team rosters to complete this bilingual, multicultural, multidisciplinary, learning program ranging from elementary to secondary levels. Encompassing the subject areas of English/Spanish, mathematics, reading, social studies, history, and…

Designed to help teachers provide students with various word processing skills, this teacher's guide contains nine units of instruction. The units address various skills that are prerequisite for entry-level word processing positions, including concepts and theories of word processing, language usage, mathematics, machine transcription and…

Presented is a compilation of papers focusing on new questions and new directions for research in science education. Papers are grouped into one of three related fields of research: (1) analysis of curriculum materials, especially science textbooks; (2) investigations of science understandings of students and experts; and (3) investigations of the…

The learning activities presented in this handbook illustrate educational opportunities related to participation in competitive activity as exemplified by the Olympic Games. Designed for use with students in grades seven through nine, these learning units may be integrated with the existing curriculum for the class. Subjects offered include…

This annotated bibliography lists published and unpublished elementary and secondary school materials developed in connection with projects of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) from 1970 through 1978. The major portion of the document lists teaching materials. This section first lists documents produced by the Major Thrust in…

A detailed description is provided of the variable allocated learning time (ALT), which is part of the analysis in phase I of the Evaluation of Practices in Individualized Schooling. The variable is defined; the questionnaires on which the variable is based are listed, the procedures used to scale the variable are explained; the distribution of…

Results are presented of a study determining the effects of type of junior high school science program on science content achievement and science process achievement in the presence of reading achievement, mathematics achievement, and sex. Two groups of ninth-grade students (N=50) were randomly selected to participate in either an ISCS program or…

This research-based curriculum guide for a secondary marketing and distributive education program covers 12 institutional areas. They are advertising, communications, display, human relations, management, mathematics, merchandising, operations, product/service technology, sales, economics of marketing, and employability skills. A content outline…