This document is a collection of course outlines, syllabi, and test materials designed for several lower division philosophy courses to be taught in an auto-tutorial learning laboratory situation. The courses included here are: Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Ethics, Advanced Survey of Philosophical Problems, Advanced Survey of Ethics,…

The Downtown Learning Center (DLC) is designed to develop a student's initiative, self-discipline, and orientation toward the future by providing an individually planned program for each student and a structure by which each student may set goals, design learning experiences, and appraise the results of the learning effort. To date, DLC has served…

Included in the report of Project MODEL's final year of operation as a Federally-funded educational project is a brief description of the project and an examination of its various operational activities. The project was originally designed to test the effectiveness of a specialized form of instruction for specific groups (physically and mentally…

This volume records the papers presented at a Northwestern University symposium concerning the articulation of cognitive psychology with mathematics education. Piagetian theories are described and extended to classroom applications in several of the papers; other psychological theories such as information processing are also discussed. All of the…

Presented in condensed form, this document represents the general and concurrent session presentations offered to 191 participants attending the 1975 Tenth Annual Small Schools Summer Institute held in Oregon. Identified as major speakers and resource people in attendance at the Institute are: representatives from nationally validated Title III…

Among the principal insights developed by the Georgetown University Learning Resources Center (LRC) Planning Group during its period of activity was an understanding of the nature of the entire system of learning resources at Georgetown University of which the proposed LRC will be one of the major parts. In this paper all of the elements of the…

This report in the National Education Association's "Developments in Classroom Instruction" series presents seven detailed descriptions of models for elementary-level classroom learning centers. It presents lists of materials, suggestions for the placement of equipment, study plans, and evaluation guides for learning centers in a variety of…

This document contains three reports. The first, "What Is Mediated Instruction?," discusses programs of media services--their goals, how they operate, and their functions, and describes the Learning Resources Center at Los Angeles City College (LACC), which emphasizes self-paced individualized instruction and which utilizes a new…

Students of advanced life science courses at Beverly Hills High School, California, are able to approximate a wide variety of life process experiments through use of computer simulations. Students are taught to use the BASIC language and to execute programs on the Hewlett-Packard 2000 Access series. Computer programs are used to enhance…

Response data from questionnaires administered to 204 teachers served as the basis for determining (1) changes in the interpersonal relations of elementary principals, and (2) the effect of needed changes on the social-emotional climate of their respective schools. Perceived change, organizational climate, executive leadership, tact, and…

Several obstacles to social and intellectual growth confront the disadvantaged student whose nonstandard dialect is unacceptable to many users of standard English. To help him develop a bidialectalism that minimizes these obstacles, the English teacher needs to guide the student to explore the ways in which language conveys meaning; to experience…

Supplementary drill materials for use in teaching French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish are described in this annotated list of instructional materials. A general summary of each set of drill materials is followed by reference to specific components, including printed and recorded materials. Bibliographic information and publishers'…

A two-year investigation into the development of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) for the improvement of undergraduate training in statistics was undertaken. The first year was largely devoted to designing PLANIT (Programming LANguage for Interactive Teaching) which reduces, or completely eliminates, the need an author of CAI lessons would…

This paper reports on one high school's experience with a project to teach students how to program and solve problems in mathematics using a computer. Part I is intended as a general guide for any high school administrator or mathematics instructor who is interested in exploring the installation of a computer terminal in his high school and wants…

Language laboratory use in the first three semesters of German study is outlined. First semester pattern drills and second and third semester conversation exercises are described. A rationale for the student for laboratory use is included. (AF)