A description of the modular scheduling practices in the foreign language programs of the White Bear Lake, Minnesota secondary schools includes information on its general design, advantages, and problems. Following discussions of arrangements for scheduling, student-teacher contact time, classroom activities, more individualized instruction,…

A description of the audiolingual nature of second languages as they are learned by all children introduces this discussion of the suitability of teaching foreign languages to the visually handicapped and the added dimension it would give to life. The role of the language laboratory in learning a foreign language is stressed. An annotated…

This document contains three papers describing the South Brunswick Township (Kindall Park, N.J.) Public Schools inservice and preservice program based on a training design which includes group dynamics or human relations training combined with a summer laboratory school. The first paper "A Three-Year Organizational Development with a Total School…

A paper given at a conference on statistical computation discussed teaching statistics with computers. It concluded that computer-assisted instruction is most appropriately employed in the numerical demonstration of statistical concepts, and for statistical laboratory instruction. The student thus learns simultaneously about the use of computers…

It can be argued that the growing dissatisfaction with native language instruction in the schools arises inevitably from the fact that the facts of life about classroom instruction do not mesh well with the key features of successful language instruction. Effective language instruction presupposes the construction of a learning environment in…

Aural-oral teaching procedures in elementary classical Greek and in Koine are accompanied by recommended texts. A survey of colleges and universities in America teaching first-year Greek points out the growing interest in this subject, and thus the need for new materials. Operating on the basic linguistic principle that all languages are…

With the purpose of designing a learning center to fit the instructional programs of Gallaudet College, a review of the literature and visits to 20 schools and colleges were made and options considered for the provision of nonprint materials. The costs, advantages, and utility of various nonprint retrieval systems are analyzed, specifically…

Reported are proceedings from an institute on children's learning disabilities (summer, 1972) which involved 60 participants who were directors or teachers in innovative programs, members of the state advisory committee on learning disabilities; and staff from Michigan's educational department. Practices and procedures of programs which had proven…

This document outlines the research and development plans of a consortium of organizations whereby they might (1) collect training materials to meet identified needs for persons with development and evaluation skills in education and industry, (2) establish a system for data collection and decisionmaking to manage the individualized instruction of…

The project goal was to make available to higher education the advantages of the system developed for English school construction. This bulletin describes the various stages in the project. Differences between building system and single building design are discussed; results of investigations into user needs and general performance specifications…

This report presents the working model for a study to evaluate methods of teaching German in Sweden. The study, which has construction, revision, and normalization phases, involves researchers, textbook authors, publishers, teachers, and students (including a student control group). The questions to be considered are: (1) What verbal intelligence,…

This report of the first conference on foreign-language and language-teaching institutes, held in Bochum, Germany in 1970, contains articles on the following topics: (1) foreign-language education in the Soviet Union, (2) a working plan for programed Russian study, (3) foreign-language teaching and recent linguistic recommendations, (4) conditions…

Continuing education activities available to laboratory technologists and personnel are listed in this directory. Workshops, seminars, short courses, and night classes intended to help the working technologist update his professional knowledge and keep abreast of new developments are listed by states. Courses offered at various colleges and…

Conducted as part of the UCLA Allied Health Professions Project, this report summarizes a functional analysis of occupational groups employed by physicians in providing out-of-hospital services to patients. To provide data for developing and improving instructional materials, a task inventory was developed to determine which categories of workers…

Behavior in organizations was conceptualized to be based on self-perceived power and perceived organizational climate. Power and climate perceptions were investigated as a function of three dimensions of organizational environment. The 2 x 2 x 3 (level of participation, profit or service orientation, and position level, respectively) design (N =…