The selections in this collection pertain to the predicaments faced by the biographer who must discover what he believes is the truth and then use this material to create a work of compelling interest. Arnold L. Fein, J. H. Plumb, and Hesketh Pearson present observations on the biographer's dilemma: the difficulty of determining the borderline…

The 59 readings in this collection are grouped into eight chapters: (1) introduction, (2) language learning and linguistics, (3) listening and speaking, (4) literature and creative writing, (5) words and their use, (6) spelling and handwriting, (7) curriculum topics and resources, and (8) evaluation of language learnings. Final readings were…

This pilot study attempted to develop systematic scientific procedures for the study of improvisational drama with children, especially ways of assessing what the typical creative drama teacher does with children, what children do when they are acting, and what effects this might have on the rest of their educational development. Specific…

This paper reports on a large-scale project of research and evaluation of a program for disadvantaged minority group students conducted by the Center for Educational Opportunity at the Claremont Colleges. The Program of Special Directed Studies for Transition to College (PSDS), a five-year experimental project, is aimed at providing a four-year,…

An increase in secondary school overseas study programs is central to the development of program examination and apprisal procedures suggested in this report. Summaries of workshop discussions include: (1) program criteria; (2) participant recruitment, selection, and orientation; (3) short-term versus year-long study abroad programs; (4) role of…

The author gives an account of her early teaching experiences, her awareness that many children did not learn to read, her early investigations of readiness, and her conclusions that difficulty in numbers, copying, or tracing were closely related to reading disability. The importance of visual perception, eye motility, early child development, and…

The assimilation into an existing instructional program of both the new knowledge on learning processes and recent technological advances was attempted in this project through the integration of programed mathematics at the ninth grade level with the multimedia approach to instruction. Controlled experimentation led to several conclusions. New…

A perspective on teaching the trainable mentally retarded is presented along with an approach to evaluating commercial materials with an accompanying outline for evaluation and an illustration of its use. A selected bibliography includes 41 professional references, 65 readings for professional growth, 30 curriculum guides, 16 references on…

The major hypotheses of this experiment were that students who play a computer game in teams of two or three will perform at least as well as those who play the game individually, and that teams of two or three students will be at least as successful in the game as individual students. Sixth graders of high academic ability were divided into four…

This handbook, which focuses on foreign language teaching in the classroom, aims to describe the "state of the art" in testing. The first section considers the area of aptitude testing, particularly the diagnostic function of aptitude tests. A taxonomy of foreign language teaching objectives points out the need to classify the aims of foreign…

To test the hypothesis that the amount learned from a manipulative, nonverbal oriented unit on electricity would be better predicted by a learning potential assessment procedure than from an IQ based classification (educable mentally retarded status), an EMR group and a regular class non EMR group were both exposed to the unit; untaught EMRs…

The proposed taxonomy of tasks to be performed in an educational evaluation system encompasses tasks appropriate for evaluators, members of an evaluation unit, and members of facilitation and coordination units. The taxonomy classifies and specifies tasks for (1) developing a climate for evaluation; (2) selecting decision situations, selecting…

The textbook is intended to be useful to inservice teachers of business subjects, to college and university teachers of methods courses in business, and to students enrolled in methods courses. After two introductory chapters dealing generally with business education, the teacher's role, the learning process, and planning for instruction, four…

The introductory guide has been designed to provide Florida teachers, counselors, and administrators with a self-instructional system of inservice training in basic concepts of career education. Materials can be used individually or in a workshop setting. The materials help to acquaint the reader with concepts, misconceptions, reasons for having…

In compliance with the Social Studies Textbook Act of the State of Michigan, 18 elementary, junior high school, and high school level social studies books were examined to determine the extent to which they adequately reflect the multi-racial, multi-ethnic and pluralistic nature of American society, both past and present. A group of 27 educators,…