Discusses what modular or flexible scheduling is and evaluates its advantages, disadvantages and pitfalls. Includes abstracts of eleven documents that provide additional information from implemented programs and from various experiences and points of view of teacher, parents, and students. (RB)

A limited study contrasting the effects of four methods of spelling instruction: word list, programed materials, class discussion, and tachistoscope. (RD)

The author contends that well financed educational systems will produce satisfied and well educated students. She is a professor of education at the University of Maryland in College Park and has published extensively in her field. (CK)

Explains the need for a student-centered curriculum. (SW)

Examined the degree of awareness, usage, and satisfaction with student services among lower division undergraduates at a four-year public university, four-year state college, and a two-year community college. Indicated a low degree of utilization of services by freshmen and sophomores but a high degree of awareness of services. (Author/RC)

The author reviews literature on childrens' reactions to perceived failure and offers "learned helplessness" as a model to explain why a child who makes a mistake gives up. Suggestions for preventing these reactions are given. (Author/JMK)

Undergraduate students completed a regular class test of 35 multiple-choice items, interspersed with five humorous verbal items written in multiple-choice format or selected syndicated cartoons. A questionnaire revealed that, although student perceptions of test humor were positive, they were less positive about verbal items. (Author/CM)

Interviews were conducted and tests were administered to determine if students found chemistry or physics easier. Reasons for their choices (including the fact that physics was perceived as relating to the life/world domain) and type knowledge used by the students are discussed. (JN)

A study examined the effects of academic and nonacademic mainstreaming on mildly retarded boys' expectancy of success and outerdirectedness. Children were asked to perform tasks concerning probability learning and imitation. Findings point to the difficulty of drawing conclusions about the effects of mainstreaming and to the importance of…

Discusses successive drafts of a student's response to a short story, illustrating how an initial personal response to literature can be developed into a critical essay with a specific purpose and audience. (HTH)