instructionaladj.n.

1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 12 585 The most satisfactory account of the instructional state of France.

1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 595/2 From the want of a sufficient instructional machinery.

1873 Daily News 4 Aug. 2/3 The instructional cooking college at Aldershot.

1912 Graduate Mag. Univ. Kansas Mar. 226/1 Special emphasis was put on the scientific side of the supervisal, administrative, and instructional phases of school work.

1961 A. A. Lumsdaine in Student Response in Programmed Instr. xxxi. 471 An important characteristic of successful instructional theory..is that it is conceived with particular reference to student response.

2011 Notes & Queries Sept. 441/1 The recipe form has evolved..in terms of instructional sophistication and accuracy.

1832 Examiner 2 Sept. 566/1 It [sc. a book] contains no instructional matter with respect to the framing of bills.

1882 W. Sharp D. G. Rossetti 415 A sonnet meant to convey an instructional idea.

1919 N.Y. Times 23 Nov. xxx. 9/1 The value of instructional films.

1934 Illustr. London News 1 Dec. 100/3 In its deliberate appeal to the imagination, it lends to its instructional content the impact..of drama.

1955 Economist 31 Dec. 1215/2 (advt.) IBM..require Technical Author to assume responsibility for writing instructional manuals on IBM punched card accounting machines.

1976 J. D. Andrew Major Film Theories i. 20 Munsterberg pays only fleeting attention to documentaries and instructional movies.

2005 Plenty Mar. 86/3 She handed me an instructional tape on mindfulness meditation.

1921 Educ. Film Mag. June 11/1 More than 400 reels are already on hand in the vaults of the home office, comprising the following classes of films:..comedies, dramas, historicals, industrials, instructionals,..and travelogs.

1962 Listener 25 Jan. 193/1 The earnest reportage, the non-theatrical instructionals, and the forward-looking films.

1989 Washington Post 10 Sept. w44 Like the little turn-of-the-century instructionals, the book was, in fact, addressing a large group of immigrants.

2013 N.Y. Mag. 2 Sept. 150 One of last year's most popular videos was an instructional on how to roast a turkey for Thanksgiving.

1938 Jrnl. Exper. Psychol. 23 25 Among these conditions there immediately occurs to mind..the specificity of the instructional set given the subjects preliminary to their ranking of the affective values of the objects.

1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Jan. 59 Kazsuk and Bartley supported these findings in a subsequent investigation of the effect of instructional sets on brightness matching.

2012 P. G. Nestor & R. K. Schutt Res. Methods Psychol. ii. 62 You want to see if different instructional sets influence performance on a cognitive test.

1950 N.Y. Times 3 Oct. 44 ‘Drill Call’, a forty-two week series of instructional television programs, will be produced by the Third Naval District and carried by WOR-TV to Naval Reserve recruits.]

1954 Washington Post 5 May 20/3 The Navy's instructional television system (ITV) was developed by the Office of Naval Research.

1956 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 3 Nov. 3/3 The state began yesterday the use of closed circuit television as a teaching devise [sic]..to determine the value of instructional television.

2003 College Teaching 51 30/3 Others object to taking classes on the Web or via instructional television.