In this very limited sample, the author gathers some interesting, perhaps unexpected, views of high school students. (Editor)

The selection processes of media specialists are discussed with emphasis on developing critical skills in children to evaluate and select materials. (KP)

For a project, a university researcher and a group of education graduate students in literacy and language education at Purdue University exchanged e-mail with 32 third graders in two classes at a northern California elementary school. The overall aim of the project was to build the children's literacy and communication skills by involving them in…

This paper reports on a survey conducted in 2001 by the American Bar Association, Division for Public Education of high school students who were participating in a week-long civic education program in Washington, DC, sponsored by the Close Up Foundation. The focus was twofold: first, the survey mapped the knowledge and opinions of high school…

For Australians the issue of globalization adds a new dimension to the complex of concerns around questions of national identity. This year has seen wide coverage of issues of citizenship and the rules whereby entry of refugees is permitted. Yet another indication of growing concern at the way Australia is understood came through educational…

What types of considerations are appropriate for selecting artists to represent key themes in the history of art? How do minority artists in the United States fit into this selection process? Previously, most art history courses and texts emphasized the highlights of significant creative expression as evolving in the Western world antiquity. In…

Team collaboration is an important part of working in business today. This study in electronic collaboration usage and implications extends what has already been done in groupware and group collaboration systems. The authors produced an experiment in which students were given the opportunity to use many different collaborative tools. A pre-test…

Presents the results of South Carolina's Trident Technical College's (TTC's) 1998 graduate follow-up survey report of 915 TTC graduates. Graduates were surveyed and results were obtained for the following items: graduate goals, employment, placement rates, graduates in related fields, when job were obtained, job finding methods, job locations, job…

Presents the results of South Carolina's Trident Technical College's (TTC's) 1999 graduate follow-up survey report. Graduates were surveyed and results were obtained for the following items: graduate goals, employment, placement rates, graduates in related fields, when job obtained, job finding methods, job locations, job satisfaction, job…

Describes an innovative teaching system in which the student becomes his own teacher. (RK)

Discusses the use of easily available audiovisual aids to teach a one semester course in astronomy and space physics to liberal arts students of both sexes at Queensborough Community College. Included is a list of teaching aids for use in astronomy instruction. (CC)

Discusses a two-year project on the properties of polyelectrolyte flocculants conducted by students at the Abbey High School, Redditch, England. Included are descriptions of the experimental procedures used and conclusions arrived at. (CC)

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between the motivation level of the student and his respective class size. Furthermore, if a relationship does exist, is this relationship reflected in the student's evaluation of the course's effectiveness. (Author)

This paper presents a description of events in two classrooms, during December 1972 and February 1973, in which the main topic were environment, resources, population, and family planning. (Author)

Discusses a literary response model developed at the Center for the Psychological Study of the Arts, stressing the importance of the individual's response in the textual analysis of literary works. (See also CS 700 447) (RB)