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THIS EXPERIMENT WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH PROGRAMMED MATERIAL IS EFFECTIVE IN THE TEACHING OF EXPONENTS TO AN INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA CLASS. ON THE BASIS OF SCORES ON A 24-ITEM MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST, 38 STUDENTS WERE DIVIDED INTO TWO MATCHED SECTIONS, WHICH HAD APPROXIMATELY EQUAL MEANS AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS. FOR THREE CLASS SESSIONS, THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP WENT TO THE STUDY SKILLS CENTER TO WORK ON PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION ON EXPONENTS, WHILE THE CONTROL GROUP RECEIVED REGULAR CLASS INSTRUCTION. A POSTTEST OF 24 ITEMS, PARALLEL IN CONTENT TO THE PRETEST, SHOWED THAT BOTH GROUPS GAINED, ALTHOUGH THERE WAS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GROUPS. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP SHOWED A GREATER VARIANCE, WITH SOME INDIVIDUALS MAKING NEGATIVE GAIN SCORES. THOSE WHOSE GAINS WERE LOW OR NEGATIVE WERE OBSERVED TO SPEND LESS THAN HALF OF THE ASSIGNED TIME IN WORK ON THE PROGRAMMED TEXTS, WHILE THE REGULAR CLASS INSTRUCTION APPREARED TO ENCOURAGE A MORE UNIFORM ACHIEVEMENT. (WO)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert