Describes experiences teaching biology for nonscience majors in Spring, 1967 by using taped-lecture and taped-documentary approaches. Indicates that, although pessimistic conclusions were arrived at, the documentary was superior to the taped blackboard lecture. (CC)

Learners in a graduate course were given some behavioral objectives and took mastery test when they felt they were ready; author found they scored significantly higher on the unit and final examinations when compared to a control group. (Editor)

The definition of conservation, the future of resource availability, the status of conservation education today are topics examined and suggestions are made on improving the content and emphasis of conservation courses. (Author)

Reports innovations in student-sponsored course evaluation developed through an experimental communications-evaluation project. (Editor/IR)

The author describes the process of course development" and discusses its implications in terms of allocation of resources, changing roles, needs for specialist personnel, etc." Appended are 20 references. (Author/AA)

Describes the objectives and content of a freshman physics laboratory course designed to eliminate the cook-book type of experiments. Instead, students are encouraged to devise their own experimental designs, execute the experiments, and interpret the results in their own way. The authors report that student reaction to the course is generally…