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| Collins, Gertrude Alyce | 1 |
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Brown, John Kenneth, Jr. – 1973
The uses of the textbook made by the teacher in daily and long-range planning, the uses by the student in daily study and review, and interactive uses between teacher and student relating to homework assignments and reading of the text were investigated. Thirty-six teachers were selected randomly from among those teaching geometry and second-year…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Instruction, Instructional Materials, Mathematics Education
Download full textFishburne, Robert Purdy, Jr. – 1971
Pupil learning about evolution under different types of instruction is examined. A branching style program in which written responses were required was compared with a program in which the same material was presented in straight narrative style. The project compiled and analyzed test results from 115 fifth-grade students. The students were divided…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
Reeder, Robert Edward – 1972
Forty-five textbooks of biology, chemistry, and physics (new and traditional curricula) were analyzed for the extent to which they devoted words to scientists. Each scientist named in each text was identified, and word counts were established for the total words devoted to each scientist and the number of these words which were humanistic by the…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Instructional Materials
Kilbourn, Brent – 1974
The purpose of this study is to develop and demonstrate the use of a conceptual framework for assessing the potential of "world view" as a concept for understanding important issues in science education. The framework is based on Stephen C. Pepper's treatment of six world hypotheses (animism, mysticism, formism, mechansim, contextualism, and…
Descriptors: Biology, Content Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
McAdoo, Joseph P. – 1974
The goal of this investigation was to qualitatively and quantitatively examine the case method as a means of teaching speech communication concepts. Three hypotheses were tested: subjects who read textbook material learn more than those who do not; subjects who read textbook materials and case studies learn more than those who read neither; and…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Doctoral Dissertations
Collins, Gertrude Alyce – 1975
The main purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of two different methods of instruction on community college students' achievement in the mechanics of composition (capitalization, punctuation, and grammar/usage) and spelling. This study was also concerned with changes in self-esteem, attitudes toward the method used in each plan,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Doctoral Dissertations, Lecture Method
