Looping is an instructional design whereby students progress to the next grade level with the same teacher(s) for two or more years. This book was designed to help teachers and administrators explore, implement, and evaluate looping programs. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1, "Exploring Looping Configurations," identifies the primary…

Discussed the implementation of the open education system of education and the problems accompanying it. (RK)

Lists titles of 234 research studies categorized by such topics as administration and supervision, curriculum development, cooperative extension education, and others. (SB)

"This report was prepared for the Nuffield Foundation, Resources of Learning Project, which supported the research described herein." (Authors)

Describes a course used to teach freshwater ecology to graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Michigan Biological Station. Explains how students receive an introduction to lake ecology and work on applied resource management questions concerning local lakes and streams. Gives case study examples. (SB)

A study of the effects of time formats on informational and attitudinal changes of students in college-level human sexuality courses indicates that the duration of the course is less important than the method of teaching it. (RM)

Summarizes a case-study evaluating the UNESCO Associated Schools Project in Poland. The educational objectives of the project, the learning activities used in the elementary and secondary schools, and the results of the evaluation are discussed. Future plans stress the improvement of teaching methods. (AM)

An assessment of the Gateway Writing Project shows that students whose teachers were trained in a five-week, intensive writing instruction project wrote somewhat better than students whose teachers were not so trained. (HOD)