An analysis of four instructional packages as possible additions to an ongoing educational program, and possible consequences of their adoption and use in a variety of curriculums. (Author)

Comprehensive indepth report on instructional materials programed package. Provides selection data for school systems based on multiple criteria assessing instructional processes and content, difficulty of implementation, and ease of incorporation into an ongoing curriculum design. (Editor)

Comprehensive indepth report on instructional materials programed package. Provides selection data for school systems based on multiple criteria assessing instructional processes and content, difficulty of implementation, and ease of incorporation into an ongoing curriculum design. (Editor)

Unless educational technology is focused on the improvement of learning, it becomes simply a means of making education seem more efficient without being truly effective. Improved materials are urgently needed because of growing demand for individualized learning and teacher accountability. Schools now are forced to use inadequately verified…

Designed to provide a framework for systematically collecting data and information about media programs at the building and district levels, this workbook is intended for use as part of a formative evaluation process to accomplish the following goals: (1) assisting the local school district in organizing descriptive data for the purpose of…

A SUMMARY IS GIVEN OF EVALUATIONS MADE BY FOUR CURRICULUM COMMITTEES OF THE GERMAN, ITALIAN, RUSSIAN, AND SPANISH PROGRAMS OFFERED IN ONTARIO SECONDARY SCHOOLS. FOR EACH LANGUAGE, AN OUTLINE OF THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS PERTAINING TO THE PARTICULAR LANGUAGE, AN ASSESSMENT OF THE LATEST TEACHING AIDS, MATERIALS, AND METHODS, AND AN OUTLINE OF A PROPOSED…

The Media Development Project for the Hearing Impaired has adapted media products on decision making and concept development and has designed two new products, a multimedia package on causality and one on voting for high schoolers. Products are evaluated by a field test network of 800 teachers and 146 schools. (CL)

Provided is the final report of the Southeast Learning Resource Center's project to coordinate state formulated programs designed to enhance the educational opportunities of handicapped children in each state of Region 13 (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, and the Virgin Islands). Section I gives…

Administrators, school media supervisors, and supervisors of instruction in the state of Maryland responded to a series of questions about the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title II, related to the implementation of the act, the utilization of federal funds, and the spread of media services through the state of Maryland. Tables giving…

Through joint efforts that included Federal funds, school staff, and community members, Leflore County schools in rural Mississippi have made advances in education. The uses of instructional materials and media are described in this 1969 document, along with areas where deficiencies are found. One section cites specific findings with respect to…

Reported here is the development and evaluation of an extensive series of video-cassette presentations developed for introductory chemical education. In measures of course achievement, students instructed by the video-cassette-discussion format received higher average scores than those taught by live lecture methods. A survey showed that the…

General session, small group activities, and on-site visits are represented in these papers from a conference which had the objectives of defining alternatives for systematic curriculum development, providing for the interchange of experiences in determining needs and instructional specifications for material production, and developing a plan for…