Contained are 99 abstracts of review articles, texts, books, manuals, learning programs, and audiovisual material used in teaching physiology. Specific fields include cell physiology, circulation, comparative physiology, development and aging, endocrinology and metabolism, environmental and exercise physiology, gastrointestinal physiology, muscle…

A review of the literature on technology and delivery of service to handicapped students in rural areas, and a sizeable appendix containing abstracts and articles on media and models are presented. Reviewed is literature on using technology: (1) in education, (2) with the handicapped in rural settings using media such as television and computer…

This guide describes more than 500 film, television, and radio productions developed through the support of the National Endowment of the Humanities. Designed to identify available materials and stimulate their use by individuals, groups, schools, and organizations, the guide presents information concerning productions under the categories of: (1)…

In compressed speech listening tests, performance was not significantly affected by listening aids presented during training. The aids consisted of a summary of the material to be heard and a list of key words in the material to be heard; the summary was presented to one group and the list of key words to another group. A third group did not…

The purpose of this literature review is to assist teachers and curriculum developers in the practical definition and implementation of career education in their respective school systems. As a part of a larger federally-funded career education curriculum development project, this work is being carried out by a consortium of eight California…

Authoritative European research in audiovisual aids to learning is cataloged and summarized for the first time in this publication. The period covered is 1945 to 1963. Items are arranged by reference numbers which are based on 10 subject catagories: films, still projected media, non-projected media, museums, perception, radio, discs and tape…

The studies reported here are a continuation of research into the comprehension of time-compressed speech by normal college students. In the Listening Aid Study II, an experiment was designed to retest the advantages of the precis as a listening aid when the precis expressed the overall meaning of a passage. Also, a new listening aid was…

Fifteen research reports related to mathematics education are abstracted and analyzed. The reports abstracted were selected from nine educational journals including several published outside the United States, and deal with a wide variety of topics. Three articles deal with concept formation, three with task analysis or instructional sequencing,…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report by the South Australian Committee of Enquiry on education in that state. The committee based its estimates on the situation to be reached in 1981. Because there will be a much smaller increase in school enrollment in the decade of the 70's than in the preceding…

IN THIS COLLECTION OF ERGONOMICS ABSTRACTS AND ANNOTATIONS THE FOLLOWING AREAS OF CONCERN ARE REPRESENTED--GENERAL REFERENCES, METHODS, FACILITIES, AND EQUIPMENT RELATING TO ERGONOMICS, SYSTEMS OF MAN AND MACHINES, VISUAL, AUDITORY, AND OTHER SENSORY INPUTS AND PROCESSES (INCLUDING SPEECH AND INTELLIGIBILITY), INPUT CHANNELS, BODY MEASUREMENTS,…

The study was conducted to determine the influence of process-oriented television science on teacher and student process and concept achievement, classroom teacher process questioning, and the relationship between achievement and questioning behavior. Grades one through four were used for the study. Fifty-four volunteer teachers were randomly…

Thirty-five research abstracts cover instructional technology in the following areas: (1) its application to elementary education, medical education, music reading skills, teacher education, college biology, and college student attitudes; (2) an evaluation of various university instructional technology graduate programs; and (3) its cost…

A total of 332 annotated references pertaining to media aspects of training are organized under the following headings: (1) Audiovisual Theory and Research, (2) Audiovisual Methods (General), (3) Audiovisual Equipment (General), (4) Computers in Instruction, (5) Television Instruction, (6) Videotape Recordings, (7) Television Facilities, (8) Radio…

Forty-five abstracts represent projects prepared by faculty personnel from Western Council on Higher Education for Nursing (WCHEN) member schools who were participants in a short-term course, "Improving Instruction Through the Use of Selected Tools and Techniques." Programed instruction projects involve various clinical areas and deal with such…