Discusses the use of visual materials in enhancing student learning, especially in the affective domain. (MLH)

Discusses pretests, using tests for feedback, and using item discrimination ratios in analyzing test effectiveness. (MLH)

Describes a set of experiments that uses a low-power gas laser to demonstrate difficult physical and mathematical concepts. (MLH)

Several teaching aids including a microcomputer system, a process control laboratory, a mechanics laboratory, and a teaching polariscope are described. (RH)

Describes a study in which engineering students who were shown accompanying slides during lecture scored significantly higher on a subsequent quiz than a control section. (MLH)

Discusses experience of using multiple media, instead of instructional television, to teach satisfactorily off-campus electrical engineering courses at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Further applications to non-engineering graduate and undergraduate courses, extension activities and short courses are recommended. (CC)

Discusses the conduct of a civil engineering program at both graduate and undergraduate levels with emphases placed on complex environmental and social problems of contemporary society. Indicates that students are provided with the ability to understand goals, formulate problems, pose alternative solutions, and test the results in the real world.…

Discusses the need to individualize instruction. Presents a model for such instruction based on learning efficiency. Outlines the model in terms of its impact on the learner, instructional materials and media, instructional methods, the teacher, and the teaching and learning environment. (TW)