THIS DOCUMENT REPORTS THE RESULTS OF AN INVESTIGATION INVOLVING SEVENTH GRADE MATHEMATICS TEACHERS OF THE VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA SCHOOLS WHO PARTICIPATED IN A TWO YEAR PROJECT TO EVALUATE INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION AS COMPARED TO CONVENTIONAL CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION. THE MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR THIS STUDY CONSISTED OF SPECIALLY PREPARED UNITS,…

BECAUSE OF THE DEMAND FOR INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION, NEW SCHOOLS ARE BEING PLANNED WITH LESS CLASSROOM SPACE AND MORE LIBRARY AND INDIVIDUAL STUDY SPACES. THESE NEW SCHOOLS REQUIRE NEW KINDS OF FURNITURE DESIGNED PRIMARILY TO GIVE THE STUDENT A DEGREE OF PRIVACY RATHER THAN TO PROVIDE OPTIMUM CONTROL TO TEACHERS. THE CARREL, PREVIOUSLY USED…

THE INITIAL PHASE IS TO SEEK THE SYNTACTIC PATTERNS MOST COMMONLY USED IN THE SUBJECTS' VERBAL COMMUNICATION. THESE COMMON PATTERNS ARE REFERRED TO AS STRUCTURAL VOCABULARY. ONCE LEARNED, THESE WORDS PROVIDE SYNTACTIC SUPPORT TO AID THE STUDENT IN THE RECOGNITION OF OTHER WORDS WITHIN SENTENCE ORDER. ADULTS NEED IMMEDIATE CONFIRMATION OF THEIR…

THIS GUIDE IS FOR INDIVIDUAL STUDENT USE IN STUDYING BASIC ELECTRICAL FUNDAMENTALS IN ELECTRICAL-ELECTRONIC PROGRAMS. IT WAS DEVELOPED BY AN INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS SPECIALIST AND ADVISERS. THE COURSE OBJECTIVE IS TO DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING OF DIRECT CURRENT FUNDAMENTALS. EACH OF THE 15 ASSIGNMENT SHEETS PROVIDES THE LESSON SUBJECT, PURPOSE,…

THIS GUIDE IS FOR INDIVIDUAL STUDENT USE IN STUDYING BASIC ELECTRICAL FUNDAMENTALS IN ELECTRICAL-ELECTRONIC PROGRAMS. IT WAS DEVELOPED BY AN INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS SPECIALIST AND ADVISERS. THE COURSE OBJECTIVE IS TO DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING OF DIRECT CURRENT FUNDAMENTALS. EACH OF THE 10 ASSIGNMENT SHEETS PROVIDES THE LESSON SUBJECT, PURPOSE,…

THIS GUIDE IS FOR INDIVIDUAL STUDENT USE IN STUDYING BASIC ELECTRICAL FUNDAMENTALS IN ELECTRICAL-ELECTRONIC PROGRAMS. IT WAS DEVELOPED BY AN INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS SPECIALIST AND ADVISERS. THE COURSE OBJECTIVE IS TO DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING OF ALTERNATING CURRENT FUNDAMENTALS. EACH OF THE 16 ASSIGNMENT SHEETS PROVIDES THE LESSON SUBJECT, PURPOSE,…

In working with a disadvantaged population, such as the young adult prisoners at Draper Correctional Center, one of the first considerations in motivating them to acquire academic skills is to aid them in establishing reasonable and attainable education goals. After a meaningful goal has been accepted, the learner's specific deficiencies must be…

In order to investigate the effectiveness of human relations training for proctors, students of a mastery based educational psychology class were randomly assigned to be tutored by either a proctor who had received training in human relations skills or a proctor who had not. Results indicated that those tutored by the trained proctors showed…

The paper related what has been accomplished during the past six years in the development of IPI Science at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. There have been three major accomplishments: (1) Goals for the program have been established, (2) The serious problems that face a group of curriculum developers…

The fifth in a series of six volumes on leadership training for noncommissioned Army officers (NCOs), this document covers materials on weapons and other equipment, rifle squad training, physical training, and miscellaneous aspects of the training of enlisted men. (See also documents AC 006 904, AC 006 905, AC 006 906, AC 006 907, and AC 006 909.)…

The Vermont Teacher Corp is an experiment in field-centered, competency-based teacher education, utilizing performance criteria to measure progress of the individual student intern. Much of the intern's time is spent in school-community service; course work is done through consultation and independent study. Main objectives are a) to develop and…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 12. SUBJECT MATTER: History. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: This guide is an aid to an independent history study with no formal class periods. Individual teacher guidance is provided. This study of Negro history is divided into three areas: local, state, and national. Local study covers 12 specific topics, state study…

The Continuing Education by Tutorial Assistance (CETA) program was implemented by Olivet Nazarene College and sponsored by Kankakee Community College, Kankakee, Illinois. The objective of the program was to reach black, high school students who were likely to drop out of school. Evaluation was accomplished by pairing 35 tutees with 35 nontutees.…

This is the report of a study conducted at Northeast Missouri State College to discover if tutoring and advising can change academically unsuccessful freshmen into more successful students. To this end, a total of 799 students were tutored by competent upper-division students during the 1970-71 academic year in the fields of English, mathematics,…

TWENTY-EIGHT PARAPLEGIC, QUADRUPLEGIC, CEREBRAL PALSIED, AND OTHER SEVERELY PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED SECONDARY STUDENTS, PATIENTS IN THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY RANCHO LOS AMIGOS HOSPITAL, WERE INCLUDED IN A STUDY OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AUTOMATED VISUAL PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION. SUBJECTS WERE DIVIDED INTO FOUR MATCHED GROUPS BY READING LEVEL AND…