The Northern Kentucky In-Service Innovation Center Project was established to provide in-service education opportunities for professional staff members through laboratory schools with satellites for use as demonstration sites, staff visitation, use of consultants, video tape services, and clinics. The overall focus of these in-service activities…

The guide was designed to provide basic information for administrators, teachers, students, and related personnel to develop new safety programs and to improve existing programs in Hawaii public schools. The loose-leaf format permits later upgrading and changes. The basic components of the program are the teacher, student, facility, and equipment.…

The idea of using demonstrations to support lectures is far from novel, but as other communicating media become more and more sophisticated, the simple practical demonstration is enjoying renewed popularity. This may be because audiences have been exposed to so many advanced presentation techniques that they have become skeptical to the extent…

This report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) generated by congressional concern over the accomplishments of educational research, reviews the activities and impact of the contractors (educational laboratories and research and development--R&D centers) supported by the Cooperative Research Act under the direction of the U.S. Office of…

These materials, including teacher's guide, student test booklet and laboratory guide, student workbook, test booklet, and a booklet explaining the answers to the questions in the test booklet, are first trial versions of a unit that will form part of the Australian Science Education Project instructional materials for grades seven through ten.…

The evaluation of a general college biology course taught by a combination of lectures, readings, small group discussions, and student-initiated activities, contains a list of the topics introduced in each of three semesters, the facilities available to students in conducting their individually designed research projects, audio-visual material…

The author views the primary purpose of the modern engineering laboratory as teaching the student how to experiment. An attempt is made to update the engineering laboratory and make it generally meaningful for all students, whether headed for graduate school or an industrial job. The intent is to broaden the experimental picture so that students…

Included are instructional materials designed for use with disadvantaged students who have a limited reading ability and poor command of English. The guide is the first volume of a two volume, one year program in physical science, and contains these five units and activities: First Class Levers, six activities; Inclined Plane, six activities; The…

Included are instructional materials designed for use with disadvantaged students who have a limited reading ability and poor command of English. The guide is the second volume of a two volume, one year program in physical science, and contains these four units and activities: Buoyancy, nine activities; Solubility, six activities; Crystals and…

Included are instructional materials designed for use with disadvantaged students who have a limited reading ability and poor command of English. The guide is the first volume of a two volume, one year program in earth science, and contains these four units and activities: Earth Materials, 8 activities; Weather, 10 activities; Water, 4 activities;…

Included are instructional materials designed for use with disadvantaged students who have a limited reading ability and poor command of English. The guide is the second volume of a two volume, one year program in earth science, and contains these five units and activities: Rock Cycle, 12 activities; Minerals and Crystals, 6 activities; Weathering…

A 1969 summer program under the Region III Migrant Education Project in Merced County, California, brought dental services to migrant children in the northern San Joaquin Valley. The goal was to screen and test as many children of migratory agricultural workers as possible in a set span of time. The University of California School of Dentistry was…

The study dealt with the effect of discovery-type teaching methods on the achievement, attitudes, and work-study skills of low achievers in mathematics. Materials, equipment, and lesson plans were selected or written for half of the sample of ninth and tenth grade students having a low mathematics grade record, and being below average in two of…

The Speech Education Department of Northwestern University is placing strong emphasis on a Simulated Classroom Instruction course designed to aid students in developing a philosophy of teaching and an understanding of themselves as teachers, specifically speech teachers. The course is intended to give potential speech teachers opportunities to:…

The history, facilities, management, research and development programs, curriculum, and future of the University of Texas Computer Assisted Instruction Laboratory are presented in this memo. Particular attention is paid to the research and development program which since 1967 has developed a wide variety of instructional applications. (MC)