In order to aid admissions personnel and teachers at Vermont College in enrolling, counseling, and motivating adult learners in machine shorthand courses, a set of checklists was developed to gather useful information about student goals, entry-level knowledge and skills, motivation, need for discipline, perseverance, and materials used.…

This document contains four papers that are answers to comprehensive examination questions of a doctoral student in instructional technology. The first paper, "Federal Support and Funding of School Library Media Programs into the 21st Century," includes sections on why federal support and funding are needed, how school library media…

The purpose of this study was to assess the relative effectiveness of verbal teaching methods as compared to a nonverbal approach which permitted no oral communication. Four fourth-grade classes consisting of a total of 88 students in one school were randomly assigned to treatment groups so that two were taught nonverbally and two were taught by…