Explains the use of student reflections as a way of promoting instructional scaffolding. Concludes that scaffolding helps students develop skills through a structured practice of those skills within a specific subject matter, electricity. (SOE)

Evaluates a program that promoted adaptation of students in their first year of secondary school. The program focused on developing healthy self-perceptions, and cognitive, affective and behavioral skills. Analyses revealed the predicted positive effects of the program on psychological and social outcomes. Findings underline the need to address…

Describes the philosophy and practical steps involved in doing outcomes assessment on student services. Discusses several assessment models, with special attention placed on Nichol's outcomes assessment template. Describes the process as applied at Lower Columbia College (Washington). (Contains two tables and seven references.) (NB)

Focuses on two sets of variables that may influence perceptions of helpers in a predominantly European American campus environment. Analysis of 180 African American undergraduates shows that ethnic identity and alienation distinctly influence attitudes toward, and knowledge of, campus mental health services, as well as preference for ethnic…

Investigates the effects of a role-taking, action-learning program on the cognitive and ego development of African American rural high school students. Main effects were assessed in two related domains: concrete to abstract thinking, and self-concept development. Results indicate significant gains in both abstract thinking and ego stage. (RJM)

Provides a framework for student services professionals that can be used as a philosophical rationale for making decisions and implementing practical budget strategies. Outlines models for student-centered universities and colleges and for restructuring student services. Examines holistic student assessment and how to redesign learning-oriented…

Provides an overview of current and of future budgetary conditions in higher education and their relation to trends, emerging issues, budget influence on restructuring, and relationships to larger institutional issues. Suggests ways the budgeting process can lead to creative and responsive restructuring. Emphasizes reallocation, retrenchment, and…

Examines the historical role of aesthetics in higher education and student affairs. Argues that aesthetic perception provides an alternative way of thinking about student development, cultural diversity, and the assessment of programs. Such values can add passion and vision to student affairs leadership and enable individuals to develop emotional…

Explores traditional assumptions about the relative emphasis faculty members and student affairs administrators place on cognitive and affective development in the classroom. Examination of 180 students and six teachers suggests that traditional assumptions about the relative emphasis that faculty members and student affairs educators place on…

Fifty college students were interviewed about their prior experiences in gifted programs. Results are summarized in terms of the types of experiences they remembered, including the types of instruction they had, their relations with peers, and their views about how their experiences in gifted programs affected other parts of their lives.…

Reports on a research project in Great Britain that investigated the option schemes and career guidance given to pupils in eight secondary schools. Argues that schools do not take positive action to encourage female pupils to study computer science courses and that career guidance personnel feel that sex-stereotyped choices are influenced by…

Presents an approach to making practical on-the-job work experience of secondary school students part of instruction in social studies. Maintains that social studies classes can serve as a vehicle for students to gain social learning from their work experiences. Includes tables outlining the conceptual framework of this approach. (DB)

Contends that the Standard Grade course, Social and Vocational Skills (SVS), and the 16+ program, Personal and Social Development, constitute an emerging educational structure for youth between the ages of 14 and 18 who have less than average ability. Argues that this system could replace the comprehensive (or "omnibus") school. (DB)

Describes a year-long evaluation procedure in which students accomplish greater involvement in assessing their own learning, beginning with a first-day questionnaire on learning and writing assumptions, continuing with writing workshop experiences, and culminating in a coursework evaluation project and publication. (KEH)

The article describes the Social Studies Professional Semester at the State University of New York at Albany as a capstone experience for prospective secondary social studies teachers. Promoting development of critical rather than technical rationality in beginning teachers, it encourages a realistic perspective on the context and processes of…