Recounts the diverse reactions elicited by a college writing teacher when he asked his students to compose using his copy of Keats' life-mask as a resource. Discusses how the life-mask acted as a stimulus, turning in-class writing into an exciting and useful composition experience. (NKA)

Study examined the validity of 1948 norms of the Picture-Frustration Study, Children's Form. Instrument was administered to 140 children, grades 2 through 6, as part of a project investigating effects of video games. Though findings differed from the 1948 norms, they supported the validity of the Children's Form of the Picture-Frustration Study.…

A discussion of possible adverse effects on the attitudes of students who are exposed to chance-based educational games. (AK)

The effect of the employment of professors by nonacademic enterprises is examined. (Editor)

Discusses 24 science fiction films. (RD)

The Stanford Mid-Peninsula Free University (MFU) constitutes the Palo Alto dissident radical's expression of acute disaffection from what Clark Kerr has termed the multiversity. The author presents the goals and philosophies of the members of MFU. (Author/MS)

Discusses formative evaluation (i.e., testing the effectiveness of instruction during its development), focussing on one procedure in particular, the evaluation of the instructional materials by an individual student. (LS)

Children's responses to illustrations and poetry are often determined by the ability of the poet and artist to grasp one another's creative intent. (HOD)

Questionnaire and Interview techniques were used at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to study full-time student perceptions of the educational role of academic librarians. Results emphasize the existence of vague, contradictory, and erroneous perceptions held about academic librarianship. (Author)