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McLaughlin, G. Harry; Jacobs, Dorene E. – 1973
The Ryerson Open College in collaboration with the Ontario Educational Communications Authority offered a multimedia, introductory credit course in sociology in 1972. Of the 173 students who participated in the course evaluation, only 18 percent completed all of the four questionnaires which constituted the evaluation data. Student grades and…
Descriptors: College Students, Cost Effectiveness, Dropout Rate, Educational Programs
Cook, Ann; Mack, Herb – 1975
One of a series of monographs to encourage reexamination of evaluation issues and perspectives about schools and schooling, this booklet is a statement on teacher education, teacher accountability, evaluation, and the teacher as researcher. Included are an introduction and five subsequent sections: (1) Educational Jargon; (2) The Open Education…
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
Lancy, David F. – 1976
This booklet, the second in a series, reports on the results of a year-long research project conducted in an experimental school associated with the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. Specifically, this is a report of findings pertaining to one major setting in the experimental school, the science lab. The science…
Descriptors: Educational Anthropology, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Experimental Schools
Peterson, Nancy A. – Comment, 1974
Six selected nontraditional approaches to curriculum at the University of Minnesota, each leading to a baccalaureate degree, are described. The programs are designed to provide flexibility to students enrolled in the university or to extend a university education to people not otherwise served. Each involves individual student selection of work to…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Degree Requirements, Educational Innovation, Experimental Programs
Ferb, Thomas; And Others – 1976
This symposium compares the third grade outcome profiles of Follow Through curricular models classified on the basis of their theoretical underpinnings as (1) behaviorally programed, (2) cognitive-discovery, or (3) open classroom. Outcome profiles are presented for academic tests, conceptual problem-solving, and selected affective measures, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Measures, Comparative Analysis, Conferences
Stone, Harriette K. – 1974
To determine whether the open classroom environment produces a higher degree of internal locus of control than the traditional classroom, 200 seventh-grade students, matched for sex, socioeconomic status, academic achievement, and intelligence, were assigned to either open or traditional classrooms. It was hypothesized that both high and low…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Development, Educational Research, Grade 7
Warfield, Grace J., Ed. – 1974
Presented are reprints of 37 articles on mainstreaming handicapped children (published between 1968 and 1974 in "Exceptional Children"). The collected articles are arranged within four broad categories: the general rationale for mainstreaming, other philosophical considerations, types of mainstreaming models, and teacher training and…
Descriptors: Administration, Classification, Conceptual Schemes, Educational Philosophy
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1973
New York State schools have adopted a variety of alternative schools and programs. The schools and programs include free schools, community schools, open education schools, street academies, schools without walls, minischools within schools, minicourses in the curriculum, and alternative programs that bridge the gap between schools and colleges,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Schools, Educational Change, Educational Development
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1974
This catalog presents 40 of the optional educational programs developed in New York State that accommodate factors such as student needs, parental preferences, and teacher interests. The catalog includes guidelines for establishing alternative learning programs and a request for information from other New York schools that have established such a…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Educational Environment, Educational Finance, Educational Innovation
Brown, Robert D.; And Others – 1973
Research evaluated the effectiveness of varying television (TV) lesson formats. Adults ranging in age from 17 to 58 viewed lessons in accounting and psychology in four formats featuring: 1) a storyline running through a lesson; 2) a news magazine format dealing with different concepts in one lesson; 3) a non-authoritarian narrator; and 4) an…
Descriptors: Accounting, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Educational Facilities Labs., Inc., New York, NY. – 1973
To assist administrators in determining what they may need for their own districts, examples are offered of five high schools that operate open curriculums in open spaces. Photographs and floor plans illustrate each school's design, and the text relates the history of the educational program and community response to the open curriculum and open…
Descriptors: Classroom Furniture, Construction Costs, Counseling, Curriculum Development
Beardsley, Barbara – 1972
To adopt open education is a philosophical decision. Open plan schools should be more conducive to a more informal style of teaching. However, it is wise to know what open education means because it is not a panacea for all schools nor for all individuals. A related document is EA 004 184. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Needs, Educational Philosophy, Flexible Facilities
Bentley, Charles F. – 1971
A tour to obtain a broad picture of the state of development of adult education in cities of the United States, of Canada, of India, and of the United Kingdom is described. The objectives of the tour were to examine: (1) the provision made for residential adult education overseas (the U.S.); (2) the relationship between the various agencies…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Comparative Analysis, Continuing Education Centers
Stodolsky, Susan Silverman – 1977
Thirty children, 7.5 to 8.5 years, in two classrooms in a Catholic school trying to implement an informal curriculum were studied. The classrooms were not "exemplary"; The children had lower-middle-class origins. Each child was observed under free-choice conditions for approximately 80-90 minutes over a 3-month period. Two-minute narrative records…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education
Ellis, Allan, Ed.; Hall, Rik, Ed.; Li, Jeni, Ed. – 2001
NAWeb 2001, the International North America Web-Based Learning Conference, focused on innovative and practical uses of the World Wide Web in teaching and learning. This proceedings contains the following papers: (1) "Roles of Parties Involved in Distance Learning" (Ahlam Al-Bassam, Peter Neubert, Ali Al-Shammari); (2) "The World…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Design