Internationalization has become a requirement of higher education to adequately train future practitioners, including architects, in the global world. Studio immersion is an experimental type of curriculum and teaching where the studio is prepared, operated, and evaluated by educators and students from joined universities. In this paper, we…

This document presents a discussion of several dependent variables related to the topic of student choice of subject matter within specified courses. The dependent variables discussed are: attitudes, personality, pacing, achievement, future choices, and varied instructional outputs. Personality has never been used as a dependent variable in any…

Teaching a course in clinical psychology so as to foster development of problem solving skills, attitudes and behaviors such as autonomy and independent thinking is reported. (Editor/PG)

This report comprises a collection of summaries of exploratory efforts by college professors at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation member institutions to develop new and better ways of teaching. Usually these are local experiments aimed at improving the conditions for learning in a specific subject-matter area, but many of the procedures…

The SUM (Single-Unit Module) Project is being conducted at the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences at San Francisco State University to explore what would happen to students, faculty, and the administration of the University, if students were presented with a quasi-programmed set of instructional materials and allowed to proceed entirely at…

An experimental study reveals no significant difference between student learning by means of microfiche and self-paced tapes versus students trained by the traditional procedure even though the self-instructional group and one-third the formal contact hours with the teacher. (Editor/PG)

Using a traditional learning paradigm, an attempt was made to evaluate a variety of approaches for inducing relaxation and the consequent effect upon retention in short and long-term memory. Available from: Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 2740 Richmond Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50319. (CFM)

Describes an arrangement of a laboratory course in biochemistry designed to teach currently used biochemical techniques and then have students apply the procedures in a real research program so as to give students a better understanding of biochemistry. (BR)

A five-year experience of the Experimental Programs Division at Kent State University with the use of volunteers in college teaching suggests that there may be intrinsic advantages to volunteerism in higher education. (Author/LBH)

A discussion of student learning and reactions to PSI, its effects on performance in higher level economics, its impact on student proctors in terms of their learning of economics, and costs of establishing and maintaining a PSI course. (AV)

Presents a college calculus program based on the discovery method and the educational psychology literature used to develop it. Lists departmental, educational, and calculus reform goals, and describes characteristics of the program, including relaxed atmosphere, use of visualization, and supplemental teaching techniques. (13 references) (MKR)

This article reports on an experimental French course and the extent to which it influenced student attitudes and motivation. (CLK)