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Reported project objectives were to develop a pupil performance profile which describes the effects of specific instructional materials and management procedures on student performance and to develop a model which predicts pupil performance in a given set of materials under particular conditions. Instructional materials (Mathematics, M.W. Sullivan) were employed with 50 students (aged 6 to 11 years) of whom 24 were classified as having learning disabilities and 26 were classified as normal. An effort was made to assess only the contribution of the instructional materials by keeping contaminating factors such as differences in teaching styles or behavior management procedures to a minimum. The system was found to make the following information available for decision making by teachers: determination of student performance on three major measures by class or type of student, determination of performance on each measure by individual student, relationship of individuals' performance to that of their reference group (those in the same class and/or of the same type), distribution of performance by quartile ranking, and prediction of student performance. For both classes, there was found to be an inverse relationship between variability in performance within and across instructional materials and overall level of performance. (GW)

THE AUTHOR REVIEWS HIS PREVIOUS RESEARCH INTO TECHNIQUES TO ATTRACT CULTURALLY-DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS BACK TO THE CLASSROOM AND TO MAINTAIN THEIR ATTENDANCE. A CONTINGENCY SYSTEM WAS DEVELOPED TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE, AND THE VARIABLES SPEED AND ACCURACY WERE INVESTIGATED. THIS IS PAPER NO. FOUR IN THE "VARIABLES INFLUENCING BEHAVIOR" PROJECT. (LH)

THE GENERAL SIZE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES, INCLUDING INDIANS AND SPANISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, ARE DISCUSSED. SELECTED RESEARCH FINDINGS REGARDING EFFORTS TO IMPROVE METHODS OF DEALING WITH THE EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF THESE PEOPLE ARE PRESENTED. FINALLY, THERE IS DISCUSSION OF THE APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN EDUCATIONAL TECHNIQUES, SUCH AS PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION. (MS)

AS ONE PHASE OF RESEARCH IN APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY, YAQUI INDIAN AND MEXICAN MEN IN ARIZONA HAVE PARTICIPATED FOR THREE YEARS IN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMED COURSES IN BASIC ENGLISH AND ARITHMETIC. THE STUDENTS HAD PREVIOUSLY HAD AN AVERAGE OF FIVE YEARS' FORMAL SCHOOLING. A BATTERY OF STANDARD OBJECTIVE TESTS WAS GIVEN TO MEASURE IQ AND ABILITY TO READ AND COMPREHEND ENGLISH. A FIRST SERIES OF TESTS WAS ADMINISTERED WITH SPECIFIED TIME LIMITS OBSERVED. A SECOND SERIES WAS GIVEN ALSO WITH THE TIME LIMITS. THEN STUDENTS WERE ALLOWED TO COMPLETE THE TESTS. THE CONCESSION OF TIME TO WORK TO COMPLETION CHANGED IQ PERCENTILE RANKS FROM 11 OR 12 TO 66, 77.5 AND 63. VARIOUS TESTS OF READING, VOCABULARY, AND OTHER SKILLS YIELDED HIGHLY INCONSISTENT EVALUATIONS OF THE STUDENTS' ABILITIES. A THIRD SERIES OF TESTS WAS BASED ON A NOVEL EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO PROGRAMED LEARNING. AN ADJUSTING SCHEDULE OF REINFORCEMENT FOR MEETING TIME AND ERROR CRITERIA WAS PUT IN FORCE. THIS INVOLVED RAISING OR LOWERING REQUIREMENTS FOR REINFORCEMENT USING THE STUDENT'S OWN PERFORMANCE AS A MEASURE. RESULTS INDICATED THAT BOTH SPEED AND ACCURACY CAN BE CONTROLLED BY REINFORCEMENT CONTINGENCIES. (ALSO INCLUDED ARE SIX REFERENCES AND 32 TABLES.) (AUTHOR)

Discusses the development of a linear program for teaching basic principles of clothing construction to college students with varying degrees of clothing construction experience. (Editor)

Article focuses upon the basic frame of reference and methodology of behavioral psychology, its relationship to architecture and the promise that synthesis of the two disciplines holds for education. (Author)

Describes a five year research project, undertaken by the U.S. Army at Guadalupe, Arizona, which used operant conditioning procedures in community development activities. The project sought "to determine environmental variables affecting individual and group behavior and, once these variables were identified, "to evolve a behavioral repertoire in the local populace which would facilitate community development. (Author/LS)

Program learning and contingency management are two approaches designed to prepare prisoners for college. Academic performance of Newgate students has been high. In a quarterly supplement to Educational Technology Magazine. (GR)

The author discusses the basic ideas raised by "Training Professionals in Procedures for the Establishment of Educational Environments, a book which describes "a training project developed specifically for persons who daily are faced with problems of designing, implementing, and validating educational methods and procedures. (Author/LS)