Explores teachers' and administrators' preferences for the content of and methods of presentation in staff development programs. A strong collaborative effort with teachers in addressing and identifying mutually agreed on priorities, needs, and weaknesses is recommended. (Author/IRT)

Use of sequential data display on the Davenport diagram mated with computer techniques offers solutions to both data storage and teaching problems related to blood gas determinations. An example of using the technique for teaching interpretation of data to medical students is given. (JT)

A technique used in an undergraduate psychology class to reduce student incentives to fake data as they undertook a research project concerning marriage relationships is described. An evaluation of the technique suggested that it works. (RM)

Examines quality of work life (QWL) development in American business and industry, highlights the major skills and knowledge required by QWL developments, and discusses potential applications of QWL developments for the content, instructional processes, and organization and management of effective schools and vocational education programs. (JOW)

Understanding the concept of interaction is vital to understanding the relationships of dimensions of phenomena under study. Use of multivariate analysis of variance is described as a useful approach for discovering the extent to which events may be complexly interaffecting. (Author/AV)

This book is a teacher's resource guide designed to help students gain the range of math skills they need to succeed in life, work, and on standardized tests; overcome math anxiety; discover math as interesting and purposeful; and develop good number sense. Topics covered in this book include measurement and data analysis such as measuring…

Ten- and 11-year-old boys and girls were taught to solve Inhelder and Piaget's pendulum problem and the results of the experiment replicated their expectation that unaided 10- and 11-year-olds do not often solve the pendulum problem. (Editor/RK)

This study was intended to investigate whether junior high school students would develop broad stylistic concepts more efficiently through exposure to exclusively positive exemplars or through exposure to a combination of positive and negative exemplars. (Author/CB)

Students at a provincial University were asked a series of questions about lectures, courses, and the relationships with staff. (Author/MB)

The statistical data of this study would tend to support the idea that the effect of attitude on achievement is independent of the method of instruction. (Author)

This section on occupational topics presents ten writers' on problems and methods of teaching in occupational Programs. (JS)