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Humphries, Michael; And Others – 1980
A study was conducted in Great Britain to review the means by which teachers of Further and Higher Education (FE/HE) keep in touch with (1) developments in their course area; (2) experimentation and innovation in curriculum design; (3) alternative teaching approaches; (4) learning resources; and (5) other sources of professional information.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Resources, Higher Education, Information Dissemination
Paulson, Peter L. – 1976
Typical students in a college remedial reading program have self-concept problems springing from several sources, including peers, teachers, and parents, that can hinder their chances for success. Teachers can set up circumstances in which students feel some of the emotions that confident people feel. Weekly sheets for the planning of goals and…
Descriptors: Feedback, Higher Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Ewald, Helen Rothschild – 1980
The assumptions underpinning grammatical mistakes can often be detected by looking for patterns of errors in a student's work. Assumptions that negatively influence rhetorical effectiveness can similarly be detected through error analysis. On a smaller scale, error analysis can also reveal assumptions affecting rhetorical choice. Snags in the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods
Hunt, Todd – 1982
A simple role playing exercise provides a device for helping public relations students to develop their own idea of what ethical behavior is, why it is important, and how it can become a practical part of their daily lives as public relations practitioners. A few basic premises apply to the problems of ethical behavior in organizations: (1)…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Higher Education
Guinn, Dorothy Margaret – 1982
Objects assembled in nonrepresentational fashion from tinker toy pieces are the starting point for a technical description writing assignment designed to increase the students' awareness of audience while at the same time giving them practice in description, analysis, and active judgment. Having been separated into two groups, each facing a…
Descriptors: Audiences, Creative Teaching, Descriptive Writing, Feedback
Guess, Doug; And Others – 1981
The second of a three volume report on a University of Kansas approach to developing quantitative measures of motor and perceptual motor functioning in nonhandicapped and severely/multiply handicapped infants and young children presents interobserver reliability results from the measures described in volume 1. Some studies also include a limited…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Evaluation Methods, Infants, Motor Development
Choate, Joyce S., Ed.; Young, Larry S., Ed. – 1982
Activity suggestions developed by experienced teachers are presented for mainstreamed students with difficulties in specific instructional areas of reading, mathematics, spelling, writing, and behavior. Activity descriptions are grouped according to instructional area, and are classified as large group, small group, or one to one exercises.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Handwriting Skills, Learning Activities
Gefen, Raphael, Ed. – 1982
A syllabus for teaching English grammar at the primary, intermediate, and upper levels in Israeli schools is presented. The criteria for the selection and grading of grammatical structures in the syllabus are frequency, the usage of the majority of educated native speakers of American and British English, the productivity of the structure (the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Reeves, Thomas C.; Lent, Richard M. – 1982
The uses and methods of four levels of evaluation which can be conducted during the development and implementation phases of computer-based instruction (CBI) programs are discussed in this paper. The levels of evaluation presented are: (1) documentation, (2) formative evaluation, (3) assessment of immediate learner effectiveness, and (4) impact…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Costs, Documentation, Evaluation Criteria
Schoenfeld, Alan H. – 1982
The project consisted of three related series of studies, designed to (a) determine some of the underlying competencies that contribute to experts' successful problem solving performance in college level mathematics, (b) to determine what productive behaviors students lack, or what counterproductive behaviors they have, that keep them from being…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Mathematics, Educational Research, Higher Education
Orlich, Donald C. – 1980
A series of classroom practices and techniques are provided to help classroom teachers overcome their anxiety in teaching science. Chapter 1 (Fearing the Unknown) focuses on reasons for teaching science in elementary grades, science processes, characteristics of inquiry, questioning and inquiry, and using small groups. Chapter 2 (Managing…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Saterfiel, Thomas H. – 1982
Public school districts in Mississippi established the Program of Research and Evaluation for Public Schools (PREPS) to provide good research and evaluation data for sound decision making. A cooperative arrangement was developed with the College of Education at Mississippi State University. PREPS staff directed research and evaluation activities…
Descriptors: Consortia, Educational Cooperation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Broadhead, Glenn J.; Berlin, James A. – 1978
A study of the effect of an "incremental" version of a generative rhetoric approach to writing instruction was conducted to determine whether such an approach would increase students' syntactic complexity. Ninety-eight college students were randomly assigned to one of five experimental or five control sections of a freshman composition…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Generative Grammar, Higher Education, Rhetoric
Beckum, Leonard; Dasho, Stefan J. – 1981
Through a reexamination of the information collected by two previous studies, this study looked at the role of administrators in desegregating the two school districts observed. Information came from inschool observations and interviews with teachers, principals, and district officials. The findings of the study consist of summaries of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Decision Making, Desegregation Methods
Holloway, William H. – 1981
A critique of a program evaluation technique called the evaluability assessment model (EAM), this paper describes the technique and its use in evaluating a federal agency. As defined here, EAM is divided into several steps. In the first step, the program description is reviewed to determine whether it is well-enough conceived to be a basis for…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Holistic Evaluation, Organizational Effectiveness
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