The specific communication tasks required of "middle level" or vocational-technical employees are reviewed. Guidelines for planning a technical communication course to meet those tasks are recommended. (HTH)

Reviews literature on the sources of math anxiety. Decribes San Bernardino Valley College's course, "Math Without Fear," which is team-taught by a mathematician and psychologist, introduces relaxation exercises, employs guest speakers with math anxiety experiences, and discusses the nature and history of math. Examines results. (DMM)

Provides findings from a literature review and 1977 survey of science, social science, and science-related technology instructors regarding the curricular functions of their courses. Findings indicate that transfer, general education, preparation for work, and remediation functions were being served by the courses, but predominately as combined…

Utilizing the theories of McGregor, Maslow, and Herzberg, presents a model for teaching history which involves students in designing their own course objectives. Includes humanistic approaches, organizational management assumptions, and models with motivational, hygiene, physiological, and safety factors. (DMM)

Suggests an alternative to the civic training, political indoctrination, and descriptive presentation approaches used to teaching American government courses. Recommends a political philosophy approach within a framework of elite theory to help students develop a critical perspective on American politics. (DMM)

Reviews briefly the literature associated with the Conference on College Composition and Communication's "Students' Right to Their Own Language" statement. Explores the status of standard English at community colleges in Michigan, as expressed in first-year composition course objectives and descriptions. Considers the history of the…

Argues that effective English instruction cannot be measured with quantifiable scales nor in terms of behavioral objectives, but rather must be measured in terms of students' ability to adapt, decide wisely, and function within society. (AYC)

Two types of link courses conducted at two Australian technical colleges were studied. The study demonstrated the need for clearly stating course objectives. This promotes communication among school teachers and career counselors, students, and technical college teachers, so that students can select appropriate link courses. (CT)

Describes the goals and status of developmental courses at Lewis and Clark Community College as they were when the college changed from a private to a public two-year college and relates present goals and status. Discusses growth in remedial enrollment, program expansion, and the importance of student evaluation and placement. (DD)

Discusses the relationship between student assessment and instructional improvement. Describes the development and administration of a Teaching Goals Inventory, which helps teachers clarify what they want their students to learn and helps institutions discover teaching priorities among departments and within the college as a whole. (DMM)

Discusses the content and objectives of a course on women's sexuality offered at the City College of Chicago as an alternative to the general education biology course. Examines the value of the course in dispelling misinformation about and ignorance of female physiology. (JP)

Ten full-time accounting instructors in San Diego County community colleges were asked to identify the core content of their courses in order to (1) develop a method for assessing the differences and similarities among courses; (2) provide information regarding the essential concepts of a course; and (3) determine if there was evidence of common…

Discusses use of the Sperrylink Office System, which incorporates word and data processing, personal computing, and electronic mail, filing, and retrieval in one unit, to prepare secretarial science students at Westchester Community College for the job market. (MBR)

Assesses an evaluation model, employing an objectives rating system and a two-dimensional matrix to display the ratings, which was applied to 145 behavioral course objectives for a general chemistry course at Northern Virginia Community College to judge the appropriateness and adequacy of the course objectives. (AYC)

Describes a national study of extended orientation courses. Finds them equally common at two- and four-year colleges but different in administrative structures and content emphases. Two-year college courses have larger class sizes, shorter durations, and less varied content and are less likely to be required or to introduce an academic discipline.…