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incorporate the strategies in their classroom work (45:15). Rosenshine and Furst recommended that "use of both highinference and low-inference measures in future studies may be most advantageous. One procedure for combining the two observations procedures would be to use student questionnaires to describe the high-inference behaviors and outside
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observers and recodings to describe the low-inference behaviors" (52:57). Through both instruments designed for this study, as well as, the by-products from the activities of -the module itself, it should be possible to identify the use of material learned in the teacher's classroom practice.
What this study will describe, therefore, is what the sample of teachers was able to do after receiving a specified amount of instruction from a piece of training material that had been revised after a preliminary field test.
Definition of Terms
Middle School. A school providing a program planned for a range of older children, preadolescents, and early adolescents, that builds upon the elementary school program for earlier childhood and in turn is built upon by the high school's program for the adolescent (1:5).