Designed to meet the information needs of arts educators who function as managers of programs, projects, or other administratively definable units in local or state education agencies, this guidebook synthesizes the experiences from four regional workshops held in 1978-79 to address project documentation, evaluation, and dissemination. Topics…

Guidelines are presented to provide advice on the development of national and regional research collections of children's literature and reading materials for use by library professionals. Following a brief introduction on the advantages of such collections, their organization, financing, staffing, and goals, this paper offers suggestions for…

Researchers in many disciplines dislike writing and view it as an additional and unnecessary irritant. Teaching researchers to write for administrators who must make decisions about highly specialized topics, but who lack the specialist's knowledge, means inducing a change in the researchers' perspective. They have to learn that they are writing…

This paper argues that the information processing model provides a promising basis on which to build a comprehensive theory of instruction. Characteristics of the major information processing constructs are outlined including attention, encoding and rehearsal, working memory, long term memory, retrieval, and metacognitive processes, and a unifying…

This report describes the Urban Economics Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara; presents copies of research reports on public policy developed by program participants; and includes summaries of lectures on efficient pricing, microeconomics, mathematical programming, production function, political decision-making, marginal utility…

Resources in Education (RIE) is a monthly abstract journal which announces (catalogs, indexes, abstracts) documents of interest to the educational community (including researchers, teachers, students, school board members, school administrators, counselors, etc.). Each issue announces approximately 1,500 documents and provides indexes by Subject,…

This study investigated instructional methodology in relation to the effectiveness of different instructional feedback strategies that can be used in regular classroom situations. Experimental conditions were created to investigate whether, in addition to mastery learning strategies, either the student's ability to use stated criteria to judge his…

Using mathemagenic-based research as a guide, this study attempted to determine whether the location of a picture (pre- or post-reading passage) or the type of picture (overview or specific incident) could affect reading comprehension. Ninety-two college students were randomly assigned to one of the cells in a two-by-two factorial design and…

Resources in Education (RIE) is a monthly abstract journal which announces (catalogs, indexes, abstracts) documents of interest to the educational community (including researchers, teachers, students, school board members, school administrators, counselors, etc.). Each issue announces approximately 1,500 documents and provides indexes by Subject,…

In this report, three theories of transitive inference are compared as they apply to the solution of linear syllogisms: a spatial theory, a linguistic theory, and a new mixed linguistic-spatial theory. Each theory is expressed in terms of an information-processing (flow chart) model and a mathematical model that quantifies the…

Three approaches to validating competencies of vocational education programs in technical and professional schools are examined. Competencies are defined as behavior-oriented and relatively simple, observable behaviors which can be identified and measured by the frequency of occurrence. The three models, which have elements in common, are expert…

This report is a record of a two year observational study of a first grade class in a multiracial elementary school located in San Jose, California. The focus of this study is on the processes which characterize the social life of this particular school. Organizing concepts of the study, the method and plan of the study, and the structure of the…

Resources in Education (RIE) is a monthly abstract journal which announces (catalogs, indexes, abstracts) documents of interest to the educational community (including researchers, teachers, students, school board members, school administrators, counselors, etc.). Each issue announces approximately 1,500 documents and provides indexes by Subject,…

This document outlines the procedures to be followed in writing a field or research report. It describes the rationale behind a good report and explains the proper format and use of title, introduction, methods, data, discussion, conclusion, references, and abstract or summary elements. This guide gives aids to writing a good report. Finally, it…

A study was conducted to determine if a difference existed in the discrimination scores of normal hearing subjects when listening to pre-recorded male and female talkers. The talkers were, three females and three males, all native Southern Californians, to control dialectical differences. The listeners were eight females and eight males, aged 18…