ENRICHMENT OF THE EXISTING CURRICULUM TO ENCOURAGE INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES WAS CONDUCTED IN THE 4TH, 5TH, AND 6TH GRADES. THREE TYPES OF CHILDREN CHOSEN WERE--THOSE WHO HAVE KEEN INSIGHT INTO THE WAYS OTHER PEOPLE ARE THINKING AND FEELING, THOSE WHO ARE BEST ORGANIZING AND SOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF TECHNOLOGY, MECHANICS, OR SOCIAL SITUATIONS, AND…

THE FORD FOUNDATION PROJECTS INCLUDE--THE PREPARATION OF READING MATERIALS FOR NONENGLISH SPEAKING BILINGUAL PUPILS ENTERING THE FIRST GRADE, THE REVISION OF "FRIES AMERICAN ENGLISH SERIES" FOR NONENGLISH SPEAKING BILINGUAL PUPILS WHO CAN READ AND WRITE IN THEIR OWN VERNACULAR, THE PREPARATION OF AUDIOVISUAL MATERIAL FOR BILINGUAL…

THE SCHOOL IS A BASIC INSTRUMENT IN SECURING THE AMERICAN GOALS OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR PERSONAL FULFILLMENT. EVERY EFFORT MUST BE MADE TO ACHIEVE RACIALLY INTEGRATED SCHOOLS, FOR PRESENCE OF CHILDREN FROM VARIED RACIAL, CULTURAL, AND SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS IS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN THE PREPARATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE FOR PARTICIPATION IN MODERN…

THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT WAS TO DEVELOP PROGRAMED MATERIALS FOR HANDWRITING INSTRUCTION AND TO EVALUATE THEIR EFFECTIVENESS. COLLEGE STUDENTS FROM TWO UNIVERSITIES WERE ASSIGNED TO FOUR GROUPS--TWO EXPERIMENTAL, ONE COMPARATIVE, AND ONE CONTROL. THESE GROUPS RECEIVED DIFFERENT INSTRUCTIONAL TREATMENTS. DATA WERE OBTAINED BY PRE- AND POST-TEST…

Volume 5 of a nine volume report on a national survey (33 states) of the media and materials needs of special education teachers and students presents a statistical analysis of the general questionnaire items about media and materials. Although the questions were not always identical for all respondent populations, they usually included an…

Volume 7 of a nine volume report on a national survey (33 states) of the media and materials needs of special education teachers and students presents a statistical analysis of the questionnaire items concerned with the distribution of special education media and materials. This section of the questionnaire contained items regarding accessibility…

This course in language curriculum development has five units: (1) Language situations and policies in Africa; (2) Preparing objectives for language curriculum development; (3) Selecting and preparing materials for language curriculum development; (4) Implementing language curriculum programmes; and (5) Evaluation and renewing language curriculum…

This paper describes the development, utility, and validity of the Situational Self-statement and Affective State Inventory (SSASI), a research inventory designed to assess cognitions and affects across a variety of five hypothetical situations. Each situation describes a realistic incident involving interpersonal conflict, principally criticism…

One of 33 self-paced industry services leadership development (ISLD) modules, this module contains three sequential learning activities on developing training manuals for an industry services job training program. (The type of industry services for which these modules were developed would involve provision of job training by public agencies for…

Existing dissemination strategies are less likely to be successful if the innovation requires attitudes that are in conflict with the beliefs of a large portion of the target audience. This paper proposes a strategy for the dissemination of educational innovations that must be accompanied by substantial changes in adopters' attitudes. A critical…

A project was conducted to examine vocational education curriculum materials developed through state and federally funded projects to determine principles and methods used and to examine strengths and weaknesses of each. A survey instrument was disseminated to all Pennsylvania schools with vocational programs. Consultants were utilized to develop…

This study describes and assesses the state of bilingual curriculum development activities in the National Network of Centers for Bilingual Education. Recommendations are made for improvement in the creation, production, and distribution of bilingual instructional materials. The overall approach to the study was tripartite and focused on: (1) the…

TWO EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED TO EVALUATE A SELF-STUDY PROGRAM PREPARED WITHIN TWO OPERATIONAL FIGHTER-INTERCEPTOR SQUADRONS. BASED ON A TECHNICAL ORDER MANUAL, IT CONSISTED OF SEQUENCED MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS WITH A SIMPLE PUNCHBOARD AS A CONFIRMING DEVICE. IN EXPERIMENT ONE, TWO OPERATIONAL SQUADRONS WERE DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS JUDGED TO BE…

ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES OF PRODUCING ENGLISH SKILLS MATERIALS OR TEACHER-TRAINING MATERIALS FOR SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES IS THAT EXTREME VARIATIONS BETWEEN THE STUDENT'S CULTURE AND THE MATERIALS WRITER'S CULTURE CAN CAUSE SERIOUS INTERFERENCE IN COMMUNICATION. A SPEAKER'S VISION IS STRUCTURED BY THE KINDS OF TRAINING, BOTH FORMAL AND INFORMAL…

This project was based on the belief that the primary aim of the high school choral class, as well as all music classes, should be to develop musicianship (musicality)--an ability to respond to the expressively organized tonal-rhythmic patterns of music. The main purpose of the project was to build a structured program for high school students…