Describes an interdisciplinary kinesiology course which incorporated a minicourse on the physics of sports. Outlines the topics treated in the minicourse and reports findings of student gains in both the affective and cognitive domains. (GS)

Describes a physics laboratory course designed to give the true flavor of science in the laboratory by emphasizing measurement. Presents the goals of the course and describes the three main blocks of study that comprise a year's work. (GS)

Describes an effective and efficient method to induce students to do physics homework. (CP)

Presents the philosophy and structure of an environmental program designed to retain the students identities as chemists. Describes the two core courses in environmental chemistry and lists the instructional materials used. (GS)

Describes an individualized introductory genetics course and its major outcomes: increased student achievement, a sense of self-achievement, more student confidence in their own ideas, as well as a program which costs less and can accommodate more students per instructor. (BR)

Describes a course that uses the Ft. Calhoun nuclear power plant as a case study. The course involves three component parts: physics of fission events, engineering requirements, and economic considerations; environmental impact from radiation and thermal effluents; and the impact of social, political and legal factors. (GS)

Describes an introductory course in geology for nonscience majors that involves students in laboratory exercises related to rock classification. (GS)

Describes the objectives, structure, and evaluation of an upper level, limited enrollment, elective course taught by a team of a physicist, a psychologist, and a literary scholar. Reports experience with the course since first taught in the Spring of 1972. (GH)

Describes the syllabus of a course emphasizing thermodynamics and light, with no calculus prerequisite, but using calculus. Discusses student preparedness and student response to the course. (GH)

Describes the use of the Keller Plan in a course designed for non-science majors. The students perceived the unit tests and their immediate correction by the instructor as the most important component of their learning. (GS)

This document reports on a workshop on coral species present in Thailand and on the status of coral taxonomy in central Indo-Pacific countries. The report discusses workshop aims, summarizes field and laboratory studies, provides a tentative checklist of hermatypic coral species from Thailand, assesses the status of coral taxonomy in participating…

A new teaching aid, designed to monitor each freshman chemistry student's progress, to identify specific weaknesses and strengths in his grasp of course material, and to prescribe individual study assignments, is described. (DT)

A required course for graduate teaching assistants on improving the quality of instruction in the undergraduate laboratories is described. As a principal feature of the course, the graduate students improved existing laboratory experiments or developed new ones. Both self-evaluation and evaluation by faculty members were applied to the final…

Presents the results of educational experiments aimed at incorporating APL programming techniques in an undergraduate physical-analytical laboratory course. Included are a list of first year experiments and some examples of operations. (CC)