FOUR STUDIES CONDUCTED BY THE MOUNT VERNON PUBLIC SCHOOLS OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE SEMESTERS INVOLVED MACHINE-TEACHING READING TO 240 DISADVANTAGED PREKINDERGARTEN CHILDREN FROM THE CHILDREN'S CENTER AND THE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER TO PREPARE THEM FOR MORE SUCCESSFUL KINDERGARTEN LEARNING THROUGH ACADEMICALLY-ORIENTED READINESS ACTIVITIES IN AN AMERICAN MONTESSORI CLASSROOM SETTING. THE CHILDREN'S CENTER SUBJECTS ATTENDED 1-HOUR SESSIONS WHILE THE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER SUBJECTS ATTENDED 3-HOUR SESSIONS. EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS FROM BOTH CENTERS USED THE EDISON-RESPONSIVE- ENVIRONMENT TALKING TYPEWRITER AND THE STORY-TELLING-AUTOMATIC READING TUTOR MACHINES WITH PROGRAMS WHICH UTILIZED LINGUISTIC VOWEL-SOUNDS METHODS. THE CONTROL GROUPS USED THE SAME MACHINES BUT DID NOT RECEIVE PROGRAM TRAINING. RESULTS SHOWED SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE BY THE PROGRAM SUBJECTS, BUT THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN THE PERFORMANCE OF PROGRAM SUBJECTS USING DIFFERENT TEACHING MACHINES. THE 1-HOUR SESSION PROVED TO BE AS EFFECTIVE AS THE 3-HOUR SESSION. THESE RESULTS IMPLY THAT GREATER CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO MORE ECONOMICAL PROGRAM SYSTEMS AND THAT CLASS TIME COULD BE REDUCED BY HALF WITHOUT LOSS IN LEARNING. (AUTHOR/NS)
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- Mount Vernon Public Schools, NY.
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Table of Contents
- DESCRIPTORS PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS 1
- ACADEMICALLYORIENTED READINESS 1
- EDISON RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENT 1
- VOWELSOUNDS METHODS. THE 1
- PROGRAM FOR TO ENTIRE FOUR-YEAR-OLD rOPULATION OF A CITY 2
- Self-teachingprograms. 9
- Motivation 14
- The CC sAillasealg.Dateri 16
- A two-way 18
- A store 20
- Another 22
- Populatinnlof a city. As will be seen the 23
- The chief 25
- Table 2.2 30
- Mean Mean Mean 31
- From 36
- The machine is apprAi- 48
- Within 56
- Mean Mean 57
- Mean 57
- ERE 59
- Summa 66
- Machine grwps did not differ 67
- Table a shows the posttest 69
- Mean 69
- Mean Mean 69
- Mean 70
- Mean 70
- Rank Item 72
- Rank 72
- J N v H k x 72
- GotkinL. and McSweeney J. partimmat of a beginning reading skills 75
- Learning set and error factor Lem In Hoch S. ed. 75
- Martin L. Bender Mount Vernon new York 78
- Machine-teaching 78
