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1. Manuals which govern training in War and Navy Departments. (a) Basic Field Manual, Military Training (FM 21-5), published under direc tion of Chief of Staff, War Department, July 16, 1941.

(b) Army Instruction (T.M. 21-250), War Department, April 19, 1943. (c) Vocational Teaching (T.M. 1-1000). War Department, September 30, 1943. (d) Manual for Navy Instructors Bureau of Naval Personnel, February, 194

2. Catalogs of training aids and materials.

(a) Military Training Aids. (F.M. 21-8) C 1, 2, 3. War Department, February 14, 1944.

(b) List of Publications for Training (F.M. 21-6). War Department, March 20, 1945.

(c) List of Training Films, Film Strips and Film Bulletins (F.M. 21-7). War Department, January, 1945.

(d) Army Air Forces Training Aids Catalog:

(1) Part I-Training Devices, April, 1944.

(2) Part II-(4M Edition) Training Films and Film Strips, April 1944.

(e) Teacher's Guide to Instructional Materials for Special Training Units (DST-M3). War Department, May 21, 1943.

(f) Steam Engineering Charts, Navy Department.1

(g) Catalog of Diesel Charts. Bureau of Naval Personnel.1

3. Periodicals published by services which deal wholly or in part with training aids.

(a) Training Bulletin, Monthly, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Department. carries many articles on training aids.1

(b) AFTAD Bulletin. Occasional. Organ of Training Aids Division of Army Air Forces.

4. Illustrative materials.

(a) Conversational Spanish for the Army Air Forces of the United States Solomon Lipp and Henry V. Besso. Hastings House. New York, 1941. (b) Elementary Physics for Air Corps Trainees (TM 1-233). War Depart ment, December 30, 1943.

(c) Army Reader (TM 21-500). War Department, May 14, 1943.

(d) Army Arithmetic (TM 21-510). War Department, May 14, 1943. (e) Infantry. Scouting, Patrolling and Sniping (FM 21-75). War Department. (f) I Am a Doughboy. Infantry School.

(g) More Learning in Less Time. Training Aids Manual. Bureau of Naval Personnel. Edition of 1943.

1Availability of Navy training aids to civilian educational activities is currently limited to a few films released through the U. S. Office of Education and several special preinduction training programs. Extension of availability and liaison in this connection is anticipated as naval requirements permit.

- Published materials on evaluation of Army and Navy programs.

(a) Bulletins and Pamphlets

MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. A survey of language classes in the Army Specialized Training Program. The report of a special committee prepared for the Commission on Trends in Education. The Association. 100 Washington Square, New York 3, N. Y., 1944. 27 p.

An objective analysis based on extensive observation.

NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. DEPARTMENT OF SUPERVISION AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT. Education in the Armed Services. Washington 6, D. C. The Association, 1944. 64 p.

A description of programs written by officers in charge in the services. NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION. A report on training in the Armed Forces with special attention to implications for postwar education. Prepared by special committee, Dr. Robert L. Hannig, Chairman. Bureau of Reference, Research and Statistics, New York City Board of Education. New York, 1944.

A description of programs thought to have carry-over value to civilian
education.

OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION. Report on education in the Armed Forces.
The OWI, Washington 25, D. C., August, 1943. 24 p.

A description of Army-Navy training programs and to some extent of
methods of selection and training.

(b) Periodicals

ADAMS, WALTER. Can our schools teach the G. I. way? Readers' Digest. 44:46-48, March, 1944.

A description of Army techniques of rapid teaching.

BUCK, NORMAN S., WILLIAM C. DE VANE, HARRY M. HUBBELL, and
FREDERICK A. POTTLE. Yale University: Report of the President's
Committee on the Teaching of Modern Foreign Languages. Hispania,
27:386-93, October, 1944.

Embodies a summary of a memorandum presented to the President of
Yale University by 10 language teachers suggesting that Yale adopt
in its elementary courses in living foreign languages methods similar
to those now in use in Army language programs.

CERONI, VITTORIO. Three months with the ASTP teaching Italian. Modern
Language Journal, 28:46-49, January, 1944; 131-35, February, 1944.

A former college teacher evaluates his Army teaching experiences.
DALE, EDGAR. Can schools really teach the G. I. way? The News Letter.
Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio State University, 10:1-4, Feb-
ruary, 1945.

The author discusses adaptations of Army teaching methods.
Foreign languages and the army program. A statement adopted by the
Commission on Trends in Education of the Modern Language Associa-
tion of America at Atlantic City, N. J., May 27, 1944. Bulletin of the
National Association of Secondary School Principals, 28:12, Novem-
ber, 1944.

FRAUENFELDER, WILLIAM. Lessons from the army language courses.
School and Society, 60:123-24, August 19, 1944.

The author suggests that traditional methods of language teaching be
changed.

KARPOVA, SUZANNE V. Six months with the ASTP. Journal of Higher
Education, 16:63-70, February, 1945.

Describes experiences of an instructor of Russian in the ASTP at th
University of Pittsburgh.

Middlebury College and the army method of teaching language. Scha and Society, 60:79-80, July 29, 1944.

A short summary of the ASTP language program at Middleb
College.

NASON, JOHN W. What we have learned. Journal of Higher Education 15:287-98, June, 1944.

Language instruction, visual education, and acceleration are evaluat in light of Army-Navy programs.

PALFREY, THOMAS R. Organization, administrative procedures and instruc tional methods in army service schools. Journal of American Association. of Collegiate Registrars, 19:4; 419-25, July, 1944.

The author recommends the adoption of certain methods and procedures QUINN, J. WILLIAM. Can Army education methods be adapted to publ schools? New York State Education, 32:420–22, 472, March, 1945.

The author evaluates Army teaching methods with speciai referens to their adaptation to secondary schools.

Science comes to languages. Fortune, 30:132-35, August, 1944.

An account of the use of new scientific methods in teaching language in the Army.

SHUTTLEWORTH, FRANK K. A critical evaluation of two aspects of the
Army Specialized Training Program in basic engineering. The Journal
Psychology, 18:159–182, 1944. (Also available in reprint.)

A critical evaluation of selection practices in the Basic Engineer
Program of ASTP.

THOMPSON, R. B. Predictive criteria for selecting AST students. Jour of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars, 19:4; 492-50 July, 1944.

The author uses ASTP data to show that closer relationship exist between scholarship in high school and in college than between specifi requirements at the two levels.

U. s. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1945-648530

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