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Azios, Maria Leticia; And Others – 1975
This course guide is intended for classroom use by teachers of secondary level mathematics to Spanish-speaking students of English as a second language (ESL). Both mathematical instruction and acquisition of English mathematical terminology are emphasized. The book is divided into chapters that comprise a Spanish-English glossary of mathematical…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Bilingual Students, Consumer Education, Course Descriptions
Sympson, James B. – 1979
Development of The Assessment of Basic Competencies (ABC), a test battery based on the three-parameter logistic model, is described. Eleven dimensions of intellectual growth are measured, from the pre-kindergarten level through ninth grade. An educationally relevant skill domain is represented by each test. Unique properties of the test, based on…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Elementary Education
HOCKETT, CHARLES F. – 1958
INTENDED AS AN INTRODUCTORY COLLEGE LINGUISTICS TEXT, THIS BOOK PRESENTS IN AN ORDERLY, AUTONOMOUS WAY THE GENERALLY ACCEPTED FACTS AND PRINCIPLES OF LINGUISTICS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A PROFESSIONAL NEED TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT LANGUAGE. DIVIDED INTO TWELVE SECTIONS, THE BOOK DESCRIBES IN DETAIL IN A PART DEVOTED TO PHONOLOGY, (1) PHONEMES, (2)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Montgomery, Margaret Anne Patricia; Weakland, Jean Marie – 1967
The effects of various rates of presentation were studied in combination with massed and spaced, concurrent and nonconcurrent, overt and covert practice modes on film-mediated perceptual performance. Selected values of the independent variables were investigated within a 3x3x2 factorial design, and the experimental treatments were randomly ordered…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, Evaluation Methods
Gattegno, Caleb – 1972
This revision of a previous edition discusses an approach to language teaching called the Silent Way. This method is based on the notion that learning a foreign language is in many respects radically different from learning the mother tongue. It can be learned in the schools by artificial methods and with materials designed for the purpose. The…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Hartoonian, H. Michael – 1978
Analysis of the relationship between language and ethics can provide insight into social institutions, social discourse, and social action. Further, synthesis of language and social education can aid educators as they develop curriculum which deals with communication and reasoning in social decision making. Ethics is interpreted to include the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation, Cultural Context, Cultural Interrelationships
Katz, Lilian G., Ed.; And Others – 1977
This volume is a collection of informative integrative reviews of primary research and development reports relevant to workers and students in early childhood education. The articles are: (1) "Psychological Perspectives and Early Childhood Education: Some Relations between Theory and Practice"; (2) "Children's Friendships in School…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Child Psychology, Children
Long, Samuel – 1977
The research investigated political and psychological reactance among adolescents. Political reactance is interpreted to include feelings of political alienation and distrust. Psychological reactance is defined as behavior by an individual in response to reduction or threatened reduction of freedom. A model was created which expanded existing…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior, Black Attitudes, Data Analysis
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Hansen, L. Sunny; And Others – 1973
The guide for orienting prospective teachers to career education opens with an introductory discussion of the needs of youth, the emergence of career education programs, and teacher education programs in career education. Section 2 discusses seven components of teacher preparation programs in career education: need, concept, orientation to the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Career Development, Career Education, Curriculum
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Garcia-Zamor, Marie; Krowitz, Mary J. – 1974
It is believed that by focusing on the problems of advanced learners of English as a second language, implications can be drawn for issues in second language teaching and testing in general. Considerations are offered on the influence of structural linguistics and transformational generative linguistics as well as language acquisition theories on…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Audiolingual Methods, Communicative Competence (Languages), Competency Based Education
Leonard, George B. – 1968
The highly interactive, regenerative, technological society now emerging will require something akin to mass genius, mass creativity, and lifelong learning; and schools as they now exist are already obsolete. Education of the future will be, and could be now, a utopian, voluntary, joyful, lifetime experience for its own sake. Our present level of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Development, Education, Educational Attitudes
Glaser, Robert, Ed. – 1965
This collection of 17 papers relating behavioral science theory to the process of experimental education grew out of a 1963 National Education Association symposium on research in programed instruction. Perspectives and the technology of programing are described in this updated and supplemental successor to the source book, "Teaching Machines…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conferences, Discovery Learning
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Lenneberg, Eric H. – Science, 1969
The author's purpose in this article is to discuss the aspects of language (especially the development of language in children) to which biological concepts are most appropriately applied. While results of past studies would seem to show that language development is contingent on specific language training, it is important to distinguish between…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biological Influences, Child Development, Child Language
Patrick, John J. – 1973
The development process of an alternative to high school government courses included the elaboration of a two-semester course called Comparing Political Experiences. The discussion of a competency-based approach to instruction and learning used in this course specifies, in diagram and in theoretical terms, three phases in achieving political…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Design
Ornstein, Jacob; And Others – 1971
Seeking to determine the extent to which educational technology is represented in the field of language instruction, this study presents a three-part survey of historical developments and current practices in this area. Part One examines the development of programed instruction in the language field, while focusing on research and development at…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Behavioral Science Research, Computer Assisted Instruction
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