Purpose--In the UK there is currently a national consultation on the structure/adoption of an academic credit framework for higher education. The purpose of this paper is to argue that the principles underlying such a framework, when applied in the context of a workplace research project, can facilitate debate between the academic disciplines and…

This study focused on how to help students translate word problems so that they understand how to solve them, and so they are successful with word problems. I have created three research questions to focus on during this research project. First, how will direct instruction of word meaning help clarify the operation needed, affect the achievement…

Writing is the ability to compose text effectively for different purposes and audiences. When many of us reflect on our own school experiences, we recall writing in English and history classes, but not in mathematics. Math classes previously relied on skill-building and conceptual understanding activities. Today, teachers are realizing that…

This article presents methods for the isolation and culture of epithelial cells from the bovine oviduct for use in both research and the teaching laboratory and provides examples of ways that an oviductal cell culture can be incorporated into an undergraduate research program. Cow reproductive tracts are readily available from area butchers, and…

In the United States there is an increasing tendency to view the only educational research worthy of federal funding as that which is designed as an experiment using randomised controls. One of the foundational assumptions underlying this research design is that the results of such research are meant to be generalisable beyond any particular…

The effect of patient and interpretive narrative characteristics on the judged accuracy of pairs of automated narratives generated by two types of norms were studied using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory protocols of 100 adolescent psychiatric patients. Narratives generated from adolescent norms were rated as significantly more…

Older subjects responded slower than younger subjects on a spatial task which required them to rotate mentally a perspectively drawn figure in order to judge whether it was congruent with a second figure. (Author)

Attempts to examine the values of graduate administration majors since these students eventually will be the individuals controlling our institutions. Rokeach's value surveys were used for testing. (Author/HMV)

Training counselors to work with the elderly may well be an untapped area in counselor education. The author investigates the lack of preparation for counseling senior citizens in the counselor education curriculum. (Author/HMV)

The catalog of agents that have been used to produce subjective changes is impressive, and each generation not only adds a few new substances but seems impelled to re-evaluate the old. Presented at Western Pharmacology Society, Honolulu, January 27-February 1, 1975. (Author)

The experimental form of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) for a low literate population was verbally administered to a population of retarded adults. Teacher ratings were also obtained on the most important personality dimensions involved in the 16PF. Results suggested a modest degree of agreement. (Author)

This study was designed to identify the important clusters of occupational groups identifiable from an analysis of the dimensions accounting for similarity in profile shapes among a set of 28 new vocational interest measures. (Author)

This article reports on a 1973 national survey by the Privileged Communication Committee of the American School Counselor Association to determine the extent of any expansion taking place in this area. Rapid growth in the past five years in legislation relating to testimonial privileged communication is reported. (Author/PC)

The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze women's contributions to the history and development of management concepts. The paper discusses the needs and reasons for this type of exploration and compares differences between men and women in relation to the development of management thought. A historical profile from the early 1800s which…