Intended for introductory instruction in wholesale management for distributive education students at the high school level, this manual, together with a separate answer key for the 15 assignments, contains detailed questions to answer and student projects to accomplish. Developed by an instructional coordinator with the aid of leaders in business…

Since a large number of the pupils at each of the three schools examined in this document had shown a need for compensatory services, they were classified as Title I schools and thus were qualified to receive supplementary funds and additional personnel through Title I, 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act grant allocations. In addition,…

The present practices and future possibilities of utilizing modern media in adult education are studied from the standpoint of (1) the major functions of modern media from the point of view of educational technology, and (2) the challenges of newly developed adult education to the conventional system of education. Chapter I, Basic Principles for…

The terminal objectives for all eight chapters of the experimental multimedia leadership management course developed by Westinghouse Learning Corporation for the United States Naval Academy are presented in this report. Also included is the script to the film General Order No. 21, and the 41 Critical Behavior Categories of NAVPERS 92224A. Related…

The multiple activities funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act had two purposes. First, they supplemented the instructional program for educationally disadvantaged children by developing a curriculum and techniques which would raise their achievement level commensurate with their ability. Second, they supported this…

Strategies for instruction in performance oriented tasks were developed in three phases. Phase one was the preparation of appropriate strategies for a performance-oriented technician course. This phase (determination of current course status, current strategies, relevant characteristics of students and instructors, the course environment, and…

A set of ten teacher-prepared Learning Activity Packages (LAPs) for individualized instruction in topics in pre-algebra, the units cover the decimal numeration system; number theory; fractions and decimals; ratio, proportion, and percent; sets; properties of operations; rational numbers; real numbers; open expressions; and open rational…

A set of ten teacher-prepared Learning Activity Packages (LAPs) in beginning algebra and nine in intermediate algebra, these units cover sets, properties of operations, number systems, open expressions, solution sets of equations and inequalities in one and two variables, exponents, factoring and polynomials, relations and functions, radicals,…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a monograph providing a comprehensive clinical, educational, and psychological study of children in special schools for the blind and poorly sighted. It summarizes investigations aimed at planning ways of differentiating teaching procedures for children with severe visual…

This volume, one in a continuing series in applied linguistics, contains 11 articles which guide the teacher seeking to understand and implement the individualization of instruction in the classroom. Written for language teachers at every instructional level, this text views individualized instruction as a realistic goal, emphasizing the…

This report describes the results of the first year of a five-year study whose overall aims are twofold: (1) to discover classroom strategies that can improve students' achievement, their self concept, and their belief in their own ability to control the type of reinforcement they receive in school; and (2) to develop procedures for training…

Project VIII is an innovative behavioral science oriented educational program, funded under Title VIII Elementary Secondary Education Act, designed to attack the personal, social, and educational problems of children whose previous record of school failure and frustration has indicated high dropout potential. The program is operated as a…

Two methods of teaching drama as a literary form in an Introduction to Literature course were compared. Eighty-seven first-year students, 28 males and 59 females, were non-randomly assigned to four classes, two of which were taught in the traditional lecture-discussion manner while the remaining two utilized a method combining lecture-discussion…

Evaluated was a program designed to provide individualized supplementary instruction in reading and mathematics for two populations of handicapped children--mentally retarded and neurologically impaired-emotionally handicapped in 34 schools in New York City. Among findings were that statistically significant gains were made on both reading and…

This document contains seven papers (four written in English, the rest in German) concerning research on learning, curriculum, and instruction in mathematics education. Abstracts of all seven articles are provided both in English and in German. The four English-written papers discuss the following topics: (1) perspectives for modelling teaching…