In response to several major curriculum reforms in Hong Kong since 2000, schools were required to initiate policies that catered for learner diversity. As well academic achievement, the reforms also emphasized the affective and social outcomes of the learning experience. A whole-school approach to learner diversity includes students with low…

This commentary suggests that the first geography course a student takes is of critical importance because the relative success or failure of the instructor in offering an interesting, relevant, and well-taught class may strongly influence whether the student take additional geography courses later in his or her education career.

The article contends that any film engenders some sort of affective response, whether or not the affect is the film's major intent. In short, to "see" a film is to have some sort of affective response, and one may or may not learn something cognitively as well. (Author/HB)

Two students, one studying law and the other architecture, were questioned about their lives in the Netherlands, how they fare as students as well as tenants. (RK)

Presents the students' evaluation of a course in literature designed to prepare students for the Certificate of Secondary Education. (RB)

Part of the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation

A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS WAS CONDUCTED TO TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TELEVISED INSTRUCTION. THIS STUDY, THE THIRD IN A SERIES, EXPLORED THE ROLE IN FIXED-PACE TELEVISION INSTRUCTION OF SOME OF THE TECHNIQUES AND PRACTICES EMPLOYED IN TEACHING-MACHINE INSTRUCTION. THREE SEPARATE EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED--(1) A JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL LESSON ON NEWTON'S…

A knowledge of literary forms, periods, and biographical background is of secondary importance in the study of literature, the primary function of which is to help students experience through feeling, intellect, and imagination what it is to be alive. This may be accomplished by the "inductive" or "discovery" method in which students are…

A university English instructor, frustrated at being unable to stimulate his students to construe the sense of poems and to limit their strong subjectivity, tried using extracurricular reading as a spur toward a more honest and attentive interpretation of poetry. His experiment produced successful and interesting results. (RK)

Children at three different developmental levels were given a brief presentation by their classroom teacher regarding the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, one day after the explosion. Conversations and comments were recorded and analyzed according to the cognitive developmental levels of the learner, employing primarily a Piagetian perspective.…

Suggestions are proposed for successfully incorporating dictation machines and tapes in the shorthand classroom. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of providing students with an opportunity for preparation, questions, and learning the procedures in the traditional manner. Students should be given an opportunity to react to the new…

Fourteen young people who have received vocational training answer questions about the problems of society, the possible contributions of vocationally trained young people to the solution of these problems, their current community and national involvement, the reasons for their choice of vocational field and their personal goals and plans. (SA)

Article investigated what seventh grade art students do with a roll of aluminum clothesline, thin aluminum wire, feathers and beads. (Author/RK)

The present study examined the problem of exaggerated reporting of drug use on a drug survey questionnaire by including a bogus drug in a survey administered to high school students. The results indicated that the admitted users of the bogus drugs were significantly different from the other Ss and their responses were consistently in the direction…