Word: progress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent report to parents and friends, Hunneman termed the recent increase of gifts to the Fund, "unprecented progress," and a certain indication of ultimate success. Even in the two "usually inactive" months of the summer, donations added $144,000, he explained...
...studies are in progress, one in New York City and one in Washington, D.C. The first is being carried out by the New York City Youth Board, applying the table to about 250 boys in the first grade of two public schools in high delinquency areas in the Bronx. This experiment has been in process since 1953, and will be continued until the youths are about 17 years...
Evaluation of this system follows the same lines that almost all of the projects do. Detailed questionnaires will elicit opinion and comment from teachers, readers, and students. Writing tests will be used to show the progress of students who are enabled by the contract correcting system to have more training in English...
...exposes the correct answer. He can thus compare his answer promptly with the correct one, and the immediate reinforcement that takes place is reputed to be extremely valuable in the learning process. The spelling machine also has the virtue of allowing children to work at their own rate of progress with material of the degree of difficulty most appropriate for them...
...observation booth equipped with one-way glass allows researchers to observe classes for purposes of evaluating the case method. Written tests before and after the experiment compare the progress of students in the "Socratic" classes with those in the control group being taught by traditional recitation methods...