Emphasizes the importance of having students write "artistic" responses to literature, thereby revealing what meaning the literary work has for them. (HOD)

Currently every Area Education Agency, community college, and Regent University in Iowa is connected by a fiber optic system known as the Iowa Communications Network (ICN). Every semester, 7 to 13 college credit classes have been offered at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) via the ICN since 1993. In the Spring of 1995 seven classes (six…

The traditional K-3 social studies curriculum has focused on food, clothing, shelter, communication, transportation, and other cultural universals. Very little information exists about children's prior knowledge and thinking about these topics. This study was designed to provide such information with respect to the topic of transportation, and in…

This study examined the effects of background classical music on silent reading in a sixth grade class, in order to determine the amount and type of influence it would have on the reader's written response to what was read. Thirty-four suburban sixth graders from two history classes were selected for this study. The data was obtained over a period…

An instructor uses a class activity to increase student understanding of the implications of sexual harassment in interpersonal relationships. Students read a dialogue inspired by a newspaper report about the disciplinary action against five senior government officials at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center who had participated in repeated…

This report analyzes the 1999 Student Satisfaction Inventory (SSI) survey results of Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) (Utah) conducted by the Noel-Levitz company. In 1999, a stratified random sample was utilized that produced a more representative profile of the student demographics compared to previous years (e.g., the percentage of full-time…

Article suggested ideas that might aid the teacher in assisting students to understand and acquire values, which will make students develop their own decision making abilities. (RK)

Article presented the attitudes of students and teachers toward community college objectives, considered data taken on the subject, and dispelled some myths on the mission of the community college. (RK)

Summarizes results of two questionnaire studies on student evaluation of courses and instruction, respectively, conducted in the Chemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and by the Committee on Undergraduate Teaching of the Division of Chemical Education, The American Chemical Society. Included are two samples of the…

Summarizes a survey of students' criteria for favorable and unfavorable responses to teaching evaluation questionnaires, involving results from 40 undergraduate and 15 graduate students. Indicates the dependence between the student's expectations upon entering a course and his acquired experience upon its completion. (CC)

The present study was an attempt to investigate possible ways that the institution, and particularly the student personnel and counseling staffs, could provide some help to students who experience serious problems in dealing with their grief reactions. (Author)

Analyzes the relationship between psychiatric disorder and such sociocultural factors as age, sex, race, family history, and personality types. (Author/RK)

The prupose of this study was to examine within a classroom the effects of adults modeling responses to moral situations with or without rule structure on responses of fifth graders. (Author)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the nature of the processing of material for recall and recognition as a function of Ss' knowledge of mode of test in order to provide an interpretation of earlier studies. (Author/RK)