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Quay, Herbert C. – 1966
This conference paper stresses that children's behavior disorders can be modified in the classroom if they are considered as a constellation of specific behaviors rather than as deviant personality traits or disease entities. To do so, however, the children must be approached within the framework of an empirically-based classification system. A…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques
Stolurow, Lawrence M. – 1967
A computer-based instructional (CBI) system was developed following a conceptualization of the teaching-learning process and was used to conduct research relating to an idiographic model of tutorial instruction and to investigate basic variables in learning and transfer. To adapt teaching modes to individual learners, the CBI system (acronym:…
Descriptors: Branching, Computer Assisted Instruction, Concept Teaching, Cross Cultural Training
Rocklyn, Eugene H. – 1967
The desirability of and problems inherent in a core language course designed to teach the speaking and understanding skills of English on a completely automated or self-instructional basis are considered. Such courses could be developed for specific countries to instruct foreign students prior to their arrival for technical instruction here, or…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Conversational Language Courses, Core Curriculum, English (Second Language)
Faber, Adele; Mazlish, Elaine – 1976
This is one of a series of Education for Parenthood manuals developed for use in Salvation Army demonstration programs in parenthood education. This guide presents discussion plans for eight workshop sessions based on the book, "Liberated Parents/Liberated Children." The course was designed to help teenagers (1) become aware of typical negative…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Care, Communication Skills, Curriculum Guides
Picou, J. Steven; Howard, William G. – 1976
The impact of sex-role socialization on career-related status orientations was examined in an attempt to specify, by sex, differential reference group influence and motivational variations. Data were derived from a larger data-set on mobility and achievement orientations of a random sample of 1970 senior students stratified according to residence…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, High School Seniors, High School Students, Occupational Aspiration
Wolter, Daniel Ralph – 1975
The purpose of this study was to determine what kind of feedback would be most effective in helping students improve their writing and in what manner it should be provided. Feedback was provided on a specific writing task, the short autobiographical narrative. Improvement was measured by scales of the three variables: completeness, development,…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Payne, James S.; And Others – 1975
Various types of token economies and contingency contract systems are emerging throughout private and public educational programs. The basic idea of this book is that a token economy based on currency creates a real-life situation for children in the classroom. The goal of this book is to help the teacher establish a currency-based token economy…
Descriptors: Banking, Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques
Passman, Richard H. – 1975
Reinforcement control of toileting behaviors was established in three profoundly retarded institutionalized adults through the use of a totally automatic reinforcement dispenser. The device was found to be reliable, reasonably priced and more accurate than manually or semiautomatically delivered reinforcement. (CL)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Electromechanical Aids, Exceptional Child Research
Oyer, Herbert J.; Frankmann, Judith P. – 1973
Programed training filmstrips from Project LIFE (Language Instruction to Facilitate Education) were used with 114 hearing impaired children and 15 normal hearing language impaired children (4- to 13-years old) to assess the effects of auditory supplementation and a token reinforcement program on language learning and to investigate retention and…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Exceptional Child Research, Filmstrips, Hearing Impairments
Roberts, Eric – 1975
An investigation into uses of evaluative feedback in a graduate-level external-studies course in supervision is reported. Methods of presenting feedback are described, utility and clarity of feedback discussed, and the role of feedback in external and traditional instruction compared. Student assessment of the methods utility and the accuracy of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Course Evaluation, Educational Research, External Degree Programs
Bailey, Jon; And Others – 1970
A community-based program for youths in trouble, Achievement Place is a home-style training setting for pre-delinquents established on a token economy in which the boys earn various privileges by engaging in desirable behaviors that are seen as necessary for their eventual rehabilitation. Five pre-delinquents from Achievement Place attended a…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Delinquency Prevention
Hewett, Frank M.; And Others – 1969
Following its initial year, an engineered classroom for educationally handicapped (EH) children was replicated and extended. Evaluation indicated that the program could effectively increase emphasis on reading and include both primary and secondary students. Reintegration in the regular classes for EH children could be done on both a gradual and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Handicapped, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems
Garrison, Mortimer, Jr. – 1968
A series of discussions are reported concerning the applicability of Piaget's ideas to special education. They are contrasted and compared with other approaches to educating the exceptional child ranging from behavioral modification to the Montessori classroom. Participants included Joachim F. Wohlwill, Francis P. Connor, Donald S. Baer, Thomas J.…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth
Kurtz, Albert K.; And Others – 1950
A total of 3039 tenth-grade students in seven Pennsylvania high schools participated in an experiment, part of a study to attempt an assessment of the relative contribution to learning from the following: 1. Films of participation (by immediate audience response to inserted questions on salient facts). 2. Films of reinforcement (by immediate…
Descriptors: Audience Participation, Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Experimental Teaching
Guess, Doug; And Others – 1969
The utilization of non-professional personnel as language teachers was investigated using forty residents and an equal number of controls who were matched on the variables of CA, IQ, and Language Age (mean CA 13.28 and mean IQ 33). Two former psychiatric aids were trained as language developmentalists by classroom experiences, informal discussions…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
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