Since no attempt had been made to determine classroom teachers' knowledge and understanding of the rules of Black English as identified by linguists, this study was designed to construct an appropriate instrument which could be administered to classroom teachers who want to work successfully with lower-class black children. Criterion-referencing…

Problems encountered in evaluating the effectiveness of an English elective program indicated the need for the development of a criterion-referenced diagnostic test for determining students' knowledge and understanding of certain basic language concepts in the field of English. A survey of 76 English elective programs throughout the United States…

This study was designed to provide Widener College with data to determine whether videotape instruction was more effective for learning than the traditional didactic approach. Thirty-one students, enrolled in the junior year of the baccalaureate program in nursing at Widener College, participated in the study. A criterion-referenced pre-test was…

The purpose of this study was to test a hypothesis formulated by the writer on the basis of the anticipated difficulties inherent in the development of a criterion-referenced reading skills program at the middle school level. Test results obtained from a criterion-referenced measure were to be utilized by twenty-two sixth grade teachers in three…

Stability of performance on a criterion referenced reading test was examined for 413 students in grades one through six. The test, which measures 367 behavioral reading objectives, was administered twice to each student, with an interval of at least three weeks between the first and second administrations. Three statistical indices of permanence…

This document is about a program that was proposed and initiated involving the teaching of the metric system using performance objectives for each level from first through sixth grade. A total of 45 performance objectives were used for the six grade levels. The goal for the program was to have students master 80% of the performance objectives as…

The job of the 4-H extension agent involves fairly complex levels of performance. The curriculum for the extension agent program should produce youth workers who have the ability to perform competently and who possess the basic concepts and values required to function effectively. Performance objectives were written for each competency considered…

A fixed-pace video-lesson which had adjunct questions (AQs) interspersed throughout was viewed by 134 freshman psychology students to determine if AQs have a facilitative effect on relevant and/or incidental learning from a videotape lesson, and, if they do, to discover the optimal combination of the factors of position and type of question, and…

This study compares the effect of the objectives-based test collections of the Instructional Objectives Exchange (10X) on reading comprehension and word-attack skills of fifth-grade students in a basal reader program. The 10X, a nonprofit educational organization, was established in the late 1960s to provide educators with instructional materials…

This study was designed to compare the effectiveness of inductive and deductive programmed instruction for high school students. The sample was formed from high school chemistry students in three schools. In two of the schools, the students worked on the programmed materials on four consecutive days and were tested on the fifth day. At the third…

The purpose of this study was to develop and test the effectiveness of a program in which activity-based science was used as a conceptual basis for language instruction. A series of four instructional units were adapted for bilingual use. Students' written and oral observations were used in experience charts and other language development…

A bilingual multicultural education program was implemented to solve the language and communication problems of the non-English and limited-English speaking students at Winton Junior High School. A needs assessment identified broad program goals as well as individual student performance objectives. The program evaluation and follow-up functions…