This article attempted to show that the research on teaching methods has been built on assumptions of additivity not only in practice but also at the meta-theoretical level and some implications of the acknowledging of interactions were taken up. (Author/RK)

A description of an experimental program using radio for instruction. (HB)

This report on OEO's educational voucher experiment sets forth the structure of the OEO proposals and the reasons for the experiment, outlines its advantages, and discusses criticisms of educational vouchers. According to the author, this voucher system makes schools more accountable to parents, and provides a wider range of choices for the poor,…

This report provides an overview of educational vouchers. The paper outlines a history of the development of the educational voucher idea, examines the OEO proposed educational voucher experiment, and discusses advantages and disadvantages of the system. A summary of State voucher plans is also provided. A related document is EA 003 418. (JF)

Pinel is a small, nongraded school for children aged 5-14 in Martinez, California. In 1969, it received a grant to bring together white suburban children and those from minority areas. This was a program of interracial contact primarily for the benefit of white children. It took place over two five-week summer sessions and Thursdays during the…

Describes the brief but educationally significant communitarian social experiment at New Harmony, Indiana, from 1825 to 1828. (Author/MB)

Although criticism heard most often about sex education is from extremist sources, there are critics whose arguments deal with timing, methods, and especially the readiness of teachers to do the job. (Author/MB)

This Canadian experiment proves the hypothesis that the most effective predictive variables of university academic performance are the grades assigned by Grade 13 teachers rather than external ability tests. (Author/RR)

An attempt to outline the responsibilities of the educational profession to the community as a whole is described. (CK)

This paper presents the results of an experiment conducted to assess the affects of teaching recursion in two disjoint, non-consecutive units of instruction. One group of students was taught basic and advanced recursion topics in four consecutive class periods, while a second group was taught recursion in two two-period blocks that were separated…

This article feeds into debate about the feasibility and usefulness of educational experiments by discussing methodological issues arising out of a study which sought causal links between teaching and learning of one aspect of French as a foreign language. The study involved two small-scale experiments which tested a hypothesis regarding the…

The potential impact of implicit learning on education has been repeatedly stressed, though little research has examined this connection directly. The current paper describes two experiments that, inspired by artificial grammar learning experiments, examine the utility of implicit learning as a method for teaching atomic bonding rules to 11-12…