This study attempted (1) to test the efficiency, simplicity, and experimental power of Paul Diederich's Method for measuring growth in writing ability, a method which allows for the cooperative evaluation of student writing using local criteria, and (2) to use this Method to measure both writing ability and grading consistency in a specific…

Intended as an instructional guideline, the last of three reports on taxonomic instruction explains strategy development and use in instruction. The instructional content is reading, with a target population of emotionally disturbed, underachieving students. Strategies are defined as instructional actions resulting from a process of…

This study investigated several questions generated by cueing system research. The cueing system is perceived as a means of directing our categorizing behaviors in the processing and recall of information. Experiments involved a comparison of categorical cueing systems on a given task in relation to two control areas: (1) subjects using a free…

This paper examines the concept of effectiveness in relation to educational organizations and suggests a conceptual framework for depicting the effective public school system. The discussion focuses first on properties of the school system as an organization and their implications for effectiveness criteria. Themes in the literature on…

To find a method for making better use of vocational interests in occupational guidance, Roe's occupational classification system was tested. A search was made to determine whether this system would yield a contiguity structure of occupations, by interests, showing the relationships between interests in different types of occupations. Three…

The project, consisting of five experiments, attempted to develop remedial procedures and materials for retarded children with learning deficits in the area of arithmetic. Standardized training procedures were devised to facilitate development of operations (conservation, ordination, cardination, and classification) which J. Piaget describes as…

A task force of librarians and audiovisual specialists was assembled to resolve differences among the several existing guidelines available for the cataloging of nonprint media and to establish a media code suitable for both manual and automated systems. The guidelines which it issued deal with procedures, terminology and codes, and set forth a…

It is possible to separate the use of computers for instructional purposes into four modes, distinguished by the style of user interaction and sometimes by the implementation methods used. The four major modes are: 1) conversational, in which the interaction resembles an exchange between two persons; 2) data-based, wherein one component of the…

This address deals with the phenomenon of modern technology in the context of: (1) its potential to alter society, (2) its implications as a discipline base for education, (3) specific curriculum developments necessary with technology as a conceptual frame of reference, (4) its behavioral characteristics in an "environmental continuum" and an…

Short abstracts of works in progress or completed in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta are presented under five major headings. The five categories are: Storage and search techniques for document data bases, Automatic classification, Study of indexing and classification languages through computer manipulation of data…

The purpose of this study was to develop and apply a composite test instrument in order to compare the academic performance and cognitive functioning of boys in educationally handicapped and regular classes. Ten subtests were chosen from standard tests. Tests of seriation and classification were constructed; the battery was then administered to 64…

This report focuses on the goals of American education and suggested programs for NIE. The goals discussed are those that the American educational systems seems to be aimed at. They are classified into two main categories: output goals, essentially the ends which the system is geared to achieve, and process goals, attributes of the processes…

The purpose of this checklist is to serve as a bibliographical aid for administrators, library science educators, librarians, teachers, curriculum coordinators, researchers, and other interested persons who are: (1) planning and conducting research in curriculum and instruction, and in educational media; (2) planning and producing an improved…

The recent emphasis on career education accentuates the problem of transforming and organizing information work domain into information that can be applied to educational problems. A comprehensive taxonomy of human work and accompanying measurement devices suitable for educational purposes is needed. This report describes a systematic procedure…

Categories of effective and ineffective behavior in regard to Goal Eight of the Quality Education Program (regarding vocational development) are listed. Both the rationales for areas of effective student behavior and the categories of teacher strategies are also included. (See TM 001 375 for project description.) (MS)