Explains how journal dialogues (student interaction with author) act as an intermediate step between purely personal responses to a text and formal interpretations for a public audience and how they encourage students to explore and develop ideas for essay writing. (HOD)

Describes the use of microcomputers and text editing functions in a remedial writing course. Presents survey results showing generally positive student responses to using text editing. Sees microcomputers as enhancing students' writing abilities and self-esteem. (DMM)

Discusses the "Every Pupil Response" (EPR) strategy and its use in teaching basic facts, problem-solving, place value, and fractions. Basically, the technique involves children responding simultaneously to a question by holding up a card, using parts of their bodies, or stick figures. Advantages of EPR are noted. (JN)

Presents results of a 1983 survey of engineering students about attitudes behind their decisions to pursue graduate study or seek employment, and what is needed to make graduate school more attractive. Results are compared to a Tau Beta Pi survey on honors students graduating in 1971 and 1982. Conclusions/recommendations are included. (JM)

Describes two innovation games--Diffusion Strategies Game and Printing Press Game--used for staff development at the Centre for Medical Education, University of Dundee, Scotland; reports on what happened when they were played; compares players' views on educational value and playing complexity; and presents authors' views about staff development…

Describes an approach to teaching Shakespeare's "King Lear" in which the teacher provides the students with a modern context/experience that forces them to evaluate their own feelings and actions. (HOD)

Reseach on use of questioning in classroom teaching reveals that recitation is a poor method, but teachers use it anyway because it is effective in teaching curriculum that is largely textbook based. Teacher educators may be advised to help teachers learn to use recitation well. (MD)

Promotes the advantages of qualitative research methodologies in distance education; outlines the work of Ference, Marton, and the Gothenberg Group and discusses how this work has related to research with distance education; and describes some insights into how students learn which can be gained through qualitative methodologies. (MBR)

Reports on a survey designed to find out why young people feel an antipathy to poetry. Finds that many students who dislike classroom poetry discussions write good poetry themselves and concludes that this discrepancy results from teachers attempting to explain too much and taking the joy of discovery in the reading of poetry away from the…

Attempts to verify or identify a valid operational definition of literary response by determining its constituents through the use of a refined version of the Response Preference Measure. (HOD)

Reactions of 96 fifth- and sixth-graders to being imitated were assessed in a compliance situation and by self-report measures of attraction toward the imitating child. It was hypothesized that subjects who perceived peer imitation to be coincidental would respond more favorably than if they perceived imitation to be an attempt to influence their…

Describes an experimental course at Allegheny College in computer-generated poetry, which required students to deal simultaneously with grammar and rhetoric, poetics, the computer and BASIC, logic and artificial intelligence in order to create programs that would generate poetry. Examples of verses produced by course participants are included.…

Correlational analysis of observed reciprocal interactions of 15 students from each group of learning disabled, behavior-disordered, and regular elementary students, and their peers, teachers, and classroom aids indicated that negative peer-student interactions were reciprocal and that positive or negative teacher-student interactions were not…

Describes a six-week writing elective during which students become more confident of their own writing and are free of teacher assessment/judgment. (HOD)

Discusses several definitions of protocols, methods of protocol collection and analysis, applications in current research, and the limitations of collecting protocols as a research method. (HOD)