Fifty-three deaf and thirty-three hearing college students observed a videotaped lecture followed by a 15 minute period of reviewing prepared class notes. Two days later, half of each group again reviewed the notes before taking a test measuring learning outcomes in four areas: recall, recognition, concept acquisition, and problem solving.…

Ten review lessons in basic mathematics are presented in this workbook designed for electrical apprentices and vocational students. The lesson topics are numbers (whole, positive, negative), fractions, decimal fractions, finding common denominators, reciprocals, percentage, powers and square roots, ratio and proportion, the circle and its use of…

THE PRESENT AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS OF CERTAIN SCIENTIFIC DEVICES AND THEORIES TO INSTRUCTION IN READING ARE REVIEWED. A NUMBER OF DEVICES BASED ON COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION, INCLUDING THE TALKING TYPEWRITER, ORTHOGRAPHIC ARRANGEMENT, RELATIONSHIP OF WORD LENGTH AND MEANING, LETTER SEQUENCES AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO PRONUNCIATION RULES, AND…

Index cards and audio tape can make the steps of the SQ3R system of study more concrete. This method can be particularly beneficial to "average" college students, who for whatever reason, have difficulty sustaining concentration while reading. The SQ3R method is suitable because of its simplicity, diversity of application, adaptability…

This workbook and study guide contains the teacher's answers to accompany the text of "The Consumer and His Dollars." Included are: (1) a key to the study exercises, given for each of 16 chapters, (2) the answers for 16 chapter reviews, (3) a mid-course test having 71 questions, together with an answer key, and (4) a final review test…

The second review segment of the Self-Paced Physics Course is presented in this volume and arranged to match study segments 19 through 40. The segment is divided into five subsegments, each of which is composed of a set of problems and solutions. A study guide is provided for each subsegment. The problem set is designed in a back-referencing…

Laboratory education is discussed from three viewpoints: (1) as an instrument for adult resocialization, (2) as an educational challenge which promotes personal but not social reconstruction, and (3) as a value medium which operates against the intellectual and independence modes. Criticism is focused on what the laboratory education technique…

Described is the content of the Certified Professional Secretary (CPS) Examination and how candidates can prepare for the two-day examination. Included are five teaching suggestions to help students pass the office procedures section of the test, and information on certification criteria and the value of the CPS rating. (MS)

The author, the editor of the "issues and dialogue" section, reviews the literature on elementary school counseling, before he leaves his editorial position. He discusses the issues faced by counselors in the past and predicts the problem they will face in the future. (SE)

Activities with balance beams were used to motivate students and help them to learn basic mathematical principles. Illustrations are included. (MNS)

The effects of two learning techniques on immediate and delayed tests examining factual and high-order learning outcomes was examined using 23 college students. Results indicated that listening to a lecture and subsequently reviewing the instructor's notes leads to higher student achievement than taking and reviewing personal lecture notes.…

Study shows that additional reviews are not only highly effective in terms of delayed retention, but also are very efficient in terms of numbers of examples used as well as amount of time spent on those examples. (Author/CB)

Sketches the preresearch activities involved in the completed Project III, one of the Phase One projects in the Targeted Research and Development Program in Reading (TRDPR) sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education. (MB)

The relationship of three medical college policies on the results of the National Board of Medical Examiners test was examined. Only the policy recommending a review course for the test had a significant effect on test results. (Author/PN)