Specific objectives of this phase of a nationwide study of vocational education were: (1) to determine the unit cost for vocational-technical education programs in a unified school district and in junior college district, (2) to determine the problems of data collection and analysis under present practices and legal requirements, and (3) to…

If only ten percent of the total estimated non-English-speaking potential of the Chicago area were actually non-functional in English, there would be some 40,000 people in need of English language training. In investigating to what degree this obvious need is being met, the writer was surprised to discover that some, including teachers, question…

To investigate the efficacy of a training procedure designed to facilitate the attainment of the mathematical concept of number conservation, 43 children from grades 1 and 2 were tested for their ability to conserve. Some of the pupils were found to be nonconservers; some, transitional conservers; and some, conservers. Pupils of the first two…

Two groups of education majors, enrolled in traditional and experimental methods courses, were compared in their knowledge of professional and general educational information, knowledge of the elementary school curriculum, classroom instructional behavior, and adaptability to changing classroom situations. The experimental methods course, prepared…

This study investigated two major hypotheses: (1) If capable high school seniors are oriented to the reading of a short story by a pre-assigned, creative writing task, their attitudes toward the story will be more positive than if they are oriented to it by a pre-assigned, noncreative writing task and (2) if those students respond to the creative…

Lack of effectiveness in current instructional output is due to the nature of the theories formulated to improve the structuring of the content of instruction. A rationale is presented for a theoretical position. Based upon this rationale a paradigm is outlined which provides the basis for a comprehensive category system for instructional design…

Evaluation of the ratio of cost to benefit of instruction must play an important part in the formation of a public policy on education. However, it is doubtful if evaluation is sufficiently developed to play such a role, because evaluation is based on student responses to test items which contain an indefinite bias and cannot be accepted as…

The fact that many Spanish speaking pupils are seriously limited in English or may not speak English at all presents a difficult problem for their teachers in English speaking schools. This document presents some of the current knowledge concerning the nature of language and how it is learned in non-technical terms. Examples of lessons,…

The effects of instruction in polysemantic words at the sixth-grade level are investigated. The most efficient means of teaching these words, the factors which affect such teaching, and the effectiveness of large group instruction versus small group instruction are studied. Four hundred and twenty-seven sixth-grade students from lower-, middle-,…

This publication is the fourth of four volumes of "Tomorrow's Manpower Needs," which are devoted to the subject of national, state, and area projections of manpower requirements. This volume includes a discussion of the assumptions on which the national projections of industry and occupational requirements are based, and the methodology…

To test the efficacy of inquiry development materials with the gifted, six 7th-graders with IQ's in the top 3% participated in an inquiry science class with specially selected materials twice a week for 40 minutes over 6 months; six children with like IQ's worked on science activities in another room. Pre- and posttests in critical thinking and…

This document is an evaluation of a New Careers elementary teacher aide program offered by the Family Life Department of Seattle Community College and funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity. Based on classroom observations, interviews with instructors and students, and the guidelines laid down by Pearl and Riessman in New Careers for the…

The purpose of a study undertaken by the Center for the Cooperative Study of Instruction was to learn if a set of instructions could be prepared for students of composition which would indicate in behavioral terms what kind of writing was expected of them. These instructions, called "cognitive maps" consisted of a strategy and an exemplar which…

The psychological background of the Carabo-Cone Method of teaching music, which is based on the theory that structured subject matter can be assimilated if translated into a concrete explorable environment is discussed. Comparison is made with other methods (Montessori, Dalcroze, Orff, Suzuki, and Kodaly), and the arrangement of the room as a…

Teaching procedures for beginning reading instruction are presented in this teacher's guide which accompanies Books I, II, and III of a 5-part reading series for Navajo Indian children. A more complete teacher's guide is planned. Emphasis is on the first major English spelling pattern consisting of one-syllable words which contain one of the…