Provides insight into the societal significance of youth culture. Maintains existing theories of youth culture fail to account for contemporary phenomena; that youth is changing qualitatively, acquiring a new role in the life-cycle, and a different societal significance. (JDH)

Criticizes the Department of Education's publication, "What Works: Research about Teaching and Learning," which claims to summarize accurate and reliable research about teaching and learning. Concludes that the booklet lacks credibility because it fails to recognize the complexity of the real educational process. (SRT)

Data drawn from a qualitative study of teachers' perceptions of work stress is presented. Linkages between teacher stress and teacher performance are firmly established. Study data are discussed in terms of the Performance Adaptation Syndrome, a term used to describe the deleterious effects of prolonged work stress on instructional ability.…

The history and development of Australia's first part-time undergraduate degree program, in Griffith University's interdisciplinary humanities program, are chronicled. Related issues are discussed, including administrative and legal considerations and problems unique to part-time students. (MSE)

Extracts of two background papers are presented: (1) The ILO (International Labour Organisation) Workers' Education Programme and (2) promotion of wider concepts of workers' education linked to other forms of education and education at the workplace. (CT)

The main reasons that students drop out of high school are poor grades, family problems, and financial problems. The school reform movement may compound marginal students' difficulties and cause more students to drop out. (MD)

The ways in which universities have prepared for and managed the issues of conflict of interest and policy concerning delay of publication of university-industry collaborative research results are discussed in the context of the growth of such research and the congressional response to university-industry relationships. (MSE)

Reactions of preschool children from urban and rural Quebec to several animated and other representational television characters were obtained. Visual elements consistently appealing are identified, and responses are reviewed for sex, cultural, and location differences. Application of results in the production of a televised antismoking promotion…

Kidney dialysis patients often suffer emotional problems and face life adjustment problems. Adult basic education can be a useful tool to address these and to make positive use of idle time during dialysis. This article describes such a program, emphasizes the self-concept gain for students, and highlights the critical role of the understanding…

Reviews the current status of CAI (computer-assisted instruction) and offers a number of explanations as to why such activity and use in the schools has been increasing, summarizes from the research and instructional technology literature a number of generalizations concerning the likely effectiveness of CAI, and examines the fundamental question…

A survey of business administration faculty in 15 British institutions revealed teachers felt their institutions undervalued teaching of part-time students and were enthusiastic about classroom practice. Problems were found in academic freedom, accommodating part-time schedules, and dissonance between school and work among both faculty and…

Some of the common characteristics of remedial students are described and their relation to difficulty in mastering course content and completing course requirements are discussed. Teaching techniques are suggested that will afford students a greater opportunity to succeed. (MLW)

Elementary, secondary, and adult students taking private piano lessons were on task for at least 85 percent of the lesson time. Teachers gave frequent reinforcement for academic behavior. While approval/disapproval ratios were not as high as the recommended 80 percent approvals, no evidence of effects on student attentiveness was apparent. (RM)

Describes a computer-based methodology that obtains simple timed responses to sets of words and word-like nonsense items, then presents pilot data depicting estimated vocabulary knowledge and relating it to word frequency and decision response time. (FL)

This study examined microcomputer use by individual students and groups of two, three, and five seventh- and eighth-grade students to discover any relationship existing between group size and achievement of a correct problem solution, and whether there is a relationship between group size and time to solution. (MBR)