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Download full textJohnston, Marjorie C.; Seerley, Catharine C. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1958
The Office of Education, in cooperation with the Modern Language Association of America, conducted a survey of language laboratories in secondary schools and institutions of higher education during the school year 1957-58. The procedure was to send a short questionnaire to all the schools and colleges known to have a language laboratory and…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Secondary Schools, Colleges, Questionnaires
Hanson, Lincoln F. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
This bulletin lists materials available in the fall of 1963 to assist educators in their selections of programmed instruction materials, and updates the inaugural issue, "Programs '62." Since the 1962 edition provided a number of first analyses of programmed material available, some of the present statistical data have been related to last year's…
Descriptors: Educational History, Programmed Instructional Materials, Guides, Teaching Methods
Nolen, Barbara; Goetz, Delia – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1959
This "Writers' Handbook" was prepared in response to the many requests for "a book that tells how to write textbooks and other educational materials for schools." These requests have come from educators of other countries as well as from the United States. The authors believe that the handbook holds valuable information and suggestions for heads…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Guides, Instructional Design
Klein, Arthur J. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
This bulletin aims to describe the administrative practice and experience of the correspondence-study departments of the universities of the United States. Correspondence-study secretaries and extension division directors may find this experience and practice of use in meeting their own problems and in evolving their own administrative systems.…
Descriptors: Educational History, Correspondence Study, College Instruction, College Administration
Koon, Cline M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
Visual instruction--the use of interesting or clarifying objective illustrations such as specimens, maps, pictures, and the like--are as old as formal instruction or what is now thought of as organized education. In recent years, however, new visual mediums or aids have been introduced into instructional practices, many of which have a special…
Descriptors: Educational History, National Surveys, Questionnaires, Elementary Schools
PDF pending restorationBrown, Kenneth E. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1954
The purpose of this study is to help persons who are faced with the task of improving or developing curriculum materials in mathematics and also those persons who frequently rethink the objectives for the teaching of mathematics. In this study 135 courses of study or curriculum guides in mathematics are analyzed and a comparison is made with a…
Descriptors: Educational History, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
Hollis, A. P. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1924
As visual education departments are very recent additions educational systems, their place in educational institutions is not very well defined. It is desirable as early as possible: (1) to find out what the existing practices are, (2) to institute comparisons among them, and (3) to use these as furnishing clues for establishing the most desirable…
Descriptors: Educational History, Visual Aids, Schools of Education, Urban Schools
