The 1,175 composition topics that appear in this special edition of the "Illinois English Bulletin" are suggested as possibilities for high school student writing assignments. After a brief statement about how secondary English teachers might use the topics in their classes, the topics are categorized by subject matter and types of composition.…

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the interactive effects of prior mathematics preparation and instructional method on achievement in an introductory calculus course taught by both Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) and conventional approaches. Subjects were 248 university students, 60 from the self-paced method and 188 from…

This project endeavored to develop a high school course for use in the classroom and for use with a computer-controlled system of programed lessons. Many difficulties such as those in the display and control of figures were encountered in trying to organize and prepare the material for the computer. The conclusion reached was that the solution to…

This four-part report discusses the planning of modules through the use of a matrix and contains two case studies as illustration. Part 1, "Applying the Matrix to an Existing Course Outline," shows how to analyze a course outline, adapt it to a matrix, and plan appropriate modules. Part 2, "Matrix Analysis," examines the matrix in order to…

Frequency counts of content emphases in each text section and laboratory exercise of the first commercial edition of the three versions of the BSCS materials were made in terms of the nine common BSCS content objectives. Two high schools used each version with teachers experienced in and trained for that version. Students were pre- and posttested…

The primary objective of the high school music literature course is simply stated: the course was directed toward the enhancement of students' understanding of the literature of music. It attempted to accomplish this through a set of specific objectives -- development of skills, abilities or knowledges which are all qualified by the term…

"The Community Junior College" is a graduate education course designed to give an understanding of the junior college program and to provide insights into some of its problems. The junior college's role and position in the total educational system is emphasized. Six units cover historical development, foundations, structure, program, personnel,…

This monograph presents an overview of the Individually Guided Education (IGE) concept, indicates procedures used to develop courses at the University of Wisconsin, and provides a description of the graduate courses. In the overview, IGE is defined as a comprehensive system to produce higher education achievements through providing for differences…

This manual is a programmed developmental sequence to be used in providing inservice and preservice training for professional educators--teachers, supervisors, and administrators--in the techniques of interaction analysis. It is designed to implement a 30-40 hour program, which would ideally be enacted in three sessions over a span of several…

The 2-year training program outlined in this guide includes the following courses: School and Community, Instructional Media, Communication Skills, Curriculum Methods, Child Development, Language Arts Skills for Children, Community Development, Teaching/Learning Methods, Mathematics Skills for Children, Tests and Measurements, Human Service…

This quarterly index provides subject access to individual articles and reviews which appeared from July to September 1970 in 100 alternative periodicals. Since the last issue of the index, 30 new periodicals have been added. These additions reflect some of the areas which the index has not covered sufficiently in the past: gay liberation, womens'…

A Basic Management Course for Effective Supervision is presented. It contains the following sessions: (1) What is a Supervisor? (2) Principles and Functions of Management, (3) The Supervisor at Work, and (4) Leadership on the Job. (CK)

To describe the attitudes of Arizona educators toward sex education, a questionnaire survey was made of all practicing teachers and administrators in the state's public school systems. Data were collected on topics such as subject content and who should teach sex education. Based on the findings of the survey, it is implied that the lack of…