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BRIDGES, EDWIN M.; AND OTHERS
THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THIS EXPERIMENT WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER HIERARCHICALLY DIFFERENTIATED GROUPS WERE AS PRODUCTIVE ON PROBLEM-SOLVING TASKS AS HIERARCHICALLY UNDIFFERENTIATED GROUPS. THE EXPERIMENT ALSO INVESTIGATED THE EFFECTS OF FORMALLY BASED STATUS DIFFERENCES ON GROUP EFFICIENCY AND RISK-TAKING. TWENTY GROUPS CONTAINING FOUR SUBJECTS…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics, Group Norms
Educational Media Council, Inc., Washington, DC.
THIS IS A COLLECTION OF SPEECHES THAT EXAMINE CURRENT ISSUES AND TRENDS IN EDUCATION AS THEY RELATE TO ITV. TOPICS DISCUSSED INCLUDE THE STATUS OF ITV, CURRICULUM AND ORGANIZATION PATTERNS, HISTORY, ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND UTILIZATION OF THE SERVICES OF THE METROPOLITAN AREA COUNCIL FOR ITV RESOURCES, AN FCC COMMISSIONER'S VIEWS OF ITV, COOPERATIVE…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Curriculum Development
Williams, Twyman G., Jr. – 1967
The effectiveness of visible recorded feedback responses in teaching scientific theory and principles to vocational agriculture students was studied. Specific objectives were to determine the value of group feedback to the teacher, the difference in learning retention between students with and without feedback, and the difference in efficient use…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Educational Experiments
Wood, Margaret W.; And Others – 1969
An exploratory study investigated the effects of two organizational patterns of microsimulation experiences (concurrently with or sequentially to student teaching) on the verbal teaching behavior of student teachers trained in the Reciprocal Category System of Interaction Analysis (RCS) as compared to their counterparts who received no RCS…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Organization, Educational Experiments, Interaction Process Analysis
Gage, N.L.; And Others – 1968
This document presents four correlated studies based on (1) the concept of "micro-criteria" which narrows the dimensions of investigating teacher effectiveness through the variable (explaining), the potential correlates (classroom behavior), and the rating of effectiveness (pupil achievement) and (2) data from an initial experiment in…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Communication Skills, Computer Oriented Programs, Content Analysis
Shulman, Lee S.; And Others – 1968
A model of the inquiry process based on John Dewey's concept of inquiry was used to develop a means of observing and scoring individual inquiry behavior. The Teacher's Inbasket, a simulation of problems crossing a teacher's desk in a simulated school setting, was developed for the study. Fifty-one female elementary education majors were selected…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes
Shulman, Lee S.; And Others – 1968
A model of the inquiry process bas"d on John Dewey's concept of inquiry was used to develop a means of observing and scoring individual inquiry behavior. The Teacher's Inbasket, a simulation of problems crossing a teacher's desk in a simulated school setting, was developed for the study. Fifty-one female elementary education majors were selected…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes
Cornett, Joe D.; Butler, Walter – 1967
For a one-semester study it was hypotnesized that a team-taught group of students enrolled in an introductory course in education would achieve higher scores than traditionally taught students and that the students' decision to become teachers was independent of the teaching method employed. An experimental group, consisting of 78 students…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Career Choice, Conventional Instruction, Course Evaluation
Borg, Walter R.; And Others – 1968
Minicourse 1, a short microteaching program designed to change 12 specific classroom behaviors involved in conducting a discussion lesson, relies heavily on filmed illustrations by model teachers and provides feedback through carefully structured teacher self-evaluation of televised lesson replays. A study was designed (1) to estimate the degree…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Experiments, Feedback
Federici, Maria – 1971
In response to Resolution (68) 18 adopted by the Ministers' Deputies on 28 June 1968, the ANFE (tr. National Association of Emigrants' Families) conducted an experiment in teaching languages to Italian workers and their families wishing to emigrate to another European country. Two courses were organised in the district of Latina at Sperlonga and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Communication Skills, Cross Cultural Training
Bramble, William J., Ed.; Ausness, Claudine, Ed. – 1974
The Appalachian Education Satellite Project was conceptualized in 1973 (1) to develop courses in reading and career-education instruction for teachers in the Appalachian region, and (2) to determine the feasibility of conducting such courses over a large geographical area via communication satellites. The courses consist of pretaped video…
Descriptors: Career Education, Communications Satellites, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Experiments
Holmstrand, Lars – 1975
This report describes the background, aim and design of the EPAL (English in the elementary school) project in Sweden. As background to the project, a survey is included of the increasingly important position of teaching English from the 1940's through the great school reforms of the 50's and 60's. Developments in foreign language teaching in the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Experiments, Educational Planning, Elementary Education
Mai, Karen Ah – 1974
A special subconference on Computer Networks featured a number of status reports from institutions represented at the planning meeting. Among the topics discussed were: the possibility of connecting the ARPA network to Pacific network nodes, the use of satellites for international data transmission, the implications of the broadcast mode of…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science Education, Computers
Anderson, Norman H. – 1971
This project studies attitude change toward U.S. Presidents using the conceptual framework and the methodology of a mathematical theory of information integration. The subjects received various paragraphs of information about certain U.S. Presidents, and evaluated them on general statesmanship. This evaluation requires the subjects to combine or…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), American History, Attitude Change, Educational Experiments
Van De Riet, Vernon; Van De Riet, Hani – 1969
The project on which this document reports intends to (1) implement a three-year and a four-year sequential curriculum based upon developmental concepts, (2) change the traditional roles of the teacher and the student, (3) accommodate individual differences in children's levels and learning rates, (4) involve parents in the education and cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Educational Change
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