This report focuses on the development and implementation of a 1-day classroom observation schedule designed to evaluate the Responsive Education Program, a compensatory program of formal education for children, ages 3-9, and their families. The program is an effort to create Head Start and Follow Through programs for children who are ethnically…

The report of the conference proceedings of the Southern Region Research Conference in Agricultural Education has summarized the presentations of 17 speakers. Some topics covered were: private foundation grantsmanship; problems of agricultural teacher reciprocity, certification, and recruiting; pre-teacher attitudes; follow-up studies of…

The Parent Leadership Training Project (PLTP) through Adult Basic Education was established as a two-year demonstration project designed to increase the reading skills of adults (16 and over) through a language-experience approach, using topics selected by the participants. The independent project evaluation covers the entire operational period…

This study was conducted in an attempt to provide an alternative to the long-established method of tape listening and repetition drills, a method that has had disappointing results. It is suggested that the rate of speed of phonic presentation is not commensurate with the rate of comprehension. The proposed method seeks to prevent cognitive…

Two instructional methods for a freshman physics course were compared: audio-tutorial (AT) instruction in a learning center and lecture-recitation-laboratory (LRL) instruction. Both random assignment and student preference were used to distribute the 575 students between the two methods. Course content, homework, and tests were identical.…

Prior to the relatively easy access to computers which began in the mid-1960's, simulation was a tool only of researchers. Even now, students are frequently excluded from direct laboratory experiences for many reasons. However, computer simulation can open up these experiences, providing a powerful teaching tool for individuals, for small and…

Within the last 10 years, attention has been directed toward discovering and solving the unique needs and problems of Texas' minority group students. This bulletin briefly describes 16 programs, in operation in school districts throughout the State, which are effectively serving these students. Selected because they are representative of the…

The general purpose of the occupational analysis is to provide workable, basic information dealing with the many and varied duties performed in the laboratory assistant occupation. The document opens with a brief introduction followed by a job description. The bulk of the document is presented in table form. Eleven duties are broken down into a…

Teachers, supervisors, and teacher educators who participated in the 1968 NDEA Title XI Institute developed experiments and instructional units to be used by industrial arts and technical education teachers. The program involved a study and development of industrial materials, field testing, and the preparation of transparencies and slides. The…

This second volume contains the remainder of the experiments and instructional material developed at the NDEA Institute. Included are seven units on polymers, three units on electronics, three units on graphic arts, 10 units on fuels and lubricants, and one unit on textiles. A list of reviewed films and source availability is appended. Volume I is…

The processes and equipment in chemical research and development have become increasingly sophisticated. Accordingly, industry is seeking chemical technicians who have developed an academic and experience base which exceeds that being provided by high schools. This conference is an effort to improve both the quality and quantity of programs for…

The Communications Skills Laboratory Program, an ESEA/Title I project in the Atlanta, Georgia, public schools, presented a language skills course for underachieving eighth-grade pupils. Pupils had reading achievement scores below sixth-grade level, had reading potential scores above this level, and had a 70 IQ or better. Small group or individual…

The successor to a volume on concepts and issues in urban citizen participation, this work documents selected patterns of participation, issues that trigger participation (school decentralization, housing needs, a proposed highway, and other crisis situations), and outside assistance as embodied in urban planning advocates, community development…

An experiment in which secondary school French, German, and Spanish classes at a large comprehensive high school were conducted in three different kinds of classroom settings is described, with emphasis on student rating of machine-guided language practice. Classroom settings included (1) a conventional classroom with a few weekly half-periods in…

Papers included are the following: aspects of mobility in the blind by J.A. Leonard; the development and analysis of tactual measures of intelligence for the adolescent and adult blind, a summary of a doctoral dissertation by Eoline Christine Cull; an investigation of human visual information transmission, a doctoral dissertation by Ronald Joseph…