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YOUNG, DAVID B.
TO COMPARE MODES OF TRAINING TEACHERS IN THE LECTURING SKILL OF REDUNDANCY WITHOUT USING DIRECT SUPERVISORY-TEACHER CONFERENCES, 94 TEACHER INTERNS WERE RANDOMLY GROUPED FOR SIX EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS. A RECORDING OF THE INTERN'S CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE WAS FOLLOWED TWICE BY A TRAINING SESSION AND ANOTHER RECORDING. TREATMENTS WERE--VIEWING A MODEL…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Experiments, Feedback, Internship Programs
Brown, Bob Burton – 1969
Demonstrating and testing Conant's recommendation that teacher competence should determine certification, this four-phase study from 1964-68 developed and field-tested procedures for evaluating teacher competence and for determining how evaluation is affected by the beliefs of student teachers and observer-judges. Following the Phase I orientation…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Behavior Rating Scales
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COMSTOCK, GEORGE; MACCOBY, NATHAN – 1966
THIS EXPERIMENT IN THE ETV PROJECT SHOWED THE SUPERIORITY OF PUPIL PRACTICE AS A TEACHING METHOD AND STUDIED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE UTILIZATION VOLUNTEER (A PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER CONCERNED WITH IMPLEMENTING ETV IN THE SCHOOLS) IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS. THREE TREATMENTS WERE ARRANGED--(1) ACTIVE PUPIL PRACTICE WHERE BROADCASTS WERE COMBINED WITH…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Demonstrations (Educational), Developing Nations, Educational Experiments
Devaney, Kathleen – 1967
This booklet contains brief descriptions of educational experiments being conducted by researchers on various campuses of the University of California. The research is being conducted in publi c schools near each campus, with both private and public funds. (EF)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Compensatory Education, Continuation Education, Curriculum Development
Wolmut, Peter; And Others – 1976
The paper describes the efforts made in a Portland, Oregon suburban school district to develop effective supplementary career awareness instruction for fifth grade students. Evaluation of a three-year exemplary integrated K-14 vocational education project (VIGOR) had revealed no significant differences in career awareness competencies between…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Follettie, Joseph F. – 1972
Instructional research now in advanced formulation at Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development is used to illustrate what a system of the IDCMS type must be able to do to acceptably support execution of such research. Of particular interest here is the event-control system which allows different subjects who…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Development, Educational Experiments, Educational Research
Philadelphia School District, PA. – 1971
The Parkway Program was designed to investigate the possibility that a high school could be organized independently of any fixed institutional facilities, whether these be a school building or a fixed faculty. One hundred and forty-three Philadelphia High School students were selected at random from among applicants representing all eight…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Experiments, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Innovation
Bockman, John F. – 1969
This three-month project utilized commercially prepared programed materials in French, German, and Spanish instruction for eighth graders selected for high language aptitude and above average ability. Interviews with participating students made after the completion of the project are the basis of the project evaluation which includes…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Experimental Programs, French, German
Hammerly, Hector – 1969
An analysis of the interrelationship of speaking and reading skills in second language acquisition is the object of an experiment described in this article. The hypothesis tested suggests that written stimuli have a negative influence on the formation of speech habits of beginning students. Objectives, methods, and subject and data selection are…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Auditory Stimuli, Beginning Reading, Behavioral Science Research
Coffman, William E., Ed. – 1973
The conference, dedicated to E.F. Lindquist, focused on three areas in which E.F. Lindquist pioneered: the development of tests of educational achievement, design and analysis techniques in educational research, and an application of electronic data processing to educational problems. Two of the papers are about the contributions to measurement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs
Nold, Joseph J. – 1973
Outward Bound is an educational experience of self-discovery that uses challenges found in a natural setting as the teaching medium. Program adaptations of Outward Bound concepts and methods for alternative education fall into five categories: 1) motivational programs, 2) human relations programs within a school, 3) alternatives to traditional…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Camping, Educational Experiments, Educational Opportunities
Burstall, Clare – 1973
A 10-year educational experiment being conducted in England in which 18,000 elementary school students are taught French by non-specialist teachers is described. The methods used rely extensively on audiovisual materials. Discussion focuses on the following factors affecting the program: (1) sex of the student, (2) socioeconomic status, (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiovisual Aids, Community Attitudes, Educational Experiments
Begin, Yves – 1971
This report of an educational experiment compares the methods and evaluates the results of two instructional approaches to language learning. The "community learning" method, in which emotional factors are believed crucial in the development of the instructional method, and a traditional approach are compared as to their effectiveness in the areas…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Attitudes
Crymes, Ruth – 1971
The transformational-generative concept of language learning as constructing a theory about language inspired this experiment. Language performance developed by a method of language learning designed to help the student study about a second language through manipulative exercises was compared to language performance developed by a method not…
Descriptors: Adults, Applied Linguistics, Educational Experiments, English (Second Language)
Blaschke, Charles – 1972
Four school districts were identified and selected to participate in the incentive project. One school each in Duval County, Florida; San Antonio, Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Oakland, California was selected as an implementation site for either the teacher model of the teacher/parent model. Contracts were drafted for each site for payment of…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Experiments, Incentives, Mathematics Instruction
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