Finds that no concensus exists among Michigan post-secondary schools on the "ideal" textbook, course requirement, or course evaluation procedures for their business communication courses. Proposes that some standards be established in these areas. (RL)

Two pilot studies were done to test the effectiveness of the Lozanov method, which emphasizes a visual and verbal suggestion format of delivery, relaxation, and listening to language instruction while soft music is playing. Available from: Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 2740 Richmond Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50319.…

The purpose of this experimental pilot project was to evaluate the Lozanov suggestive-accelerative method of teaching with the conventional way of teaching beginning Spanish at the college level. Available from: Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 2740 Richmond Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50319. (Author/CFM)

Describes an innovative college geography course. The course increased student awareness of common landscape phenomena and stimulated recognition and comprehension of landscape components and their linkages in space and time. An outline shows lecture-discussion topics and reading assignments. (Author/AV)

The mastery approach toward learning drug product information seems to be a useful method to improve a student's knowledge, but the approach requires more faculty time since it is geared toward the individual student. (LBH)

Favorable results from a competency-based freshman writing course. (AA)

A program sensitizing health professional students to the elderly's health care needs produced student information gains in the area of aging, favorable changes in attitudes toward the elderly, and positive course evaluations. The broad range of evaluation approaches and the multi-year replications demonstrate the course's value in a pharmacy…

Good communication skills are necessary to conduct an effective interview and to establish a therapeutic alliance between the physician and patient. A reliable performance-based instrument for measuring a broad range of interview skills was developed and used to evaluate the effect of an interviewing course. (MLW)

An alternative method of approaching research on postsecondary learning and teaching that is designed to reduce redundancy is outlined, with illustrations from research on student ratings of courses and teachers and other topics. (MSE)

Discusses how a pre/post adventure evaluation form, developed together by participants and instructors, can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. (NEC)

Assessment of the effectiveness of workstations teaching English-as-a-second-language content, vocabulary, and idiomatic expressions through an adventure film found that the workstations were highly motivational and stimulating, while their effectiveness depended on the students' individual learning styles. (Author/CB)

A 15-week introductory course in nutrition was developed into a computerized study guide or "autotutorial" program. There are 1,950 statements and review questions on main-frame or microcomputers that students use to preview or review lectures, or study for examinations. Describes the program and discusses the highly positive program evaluation…

Team teaching can be successfully used in first-year optometry. Conditions for success include a strong coordinator, mutual respect and participation of team members, and agreement about course philosophy, goals, and objectives. If organized well, a team-taught course offers consistency and integrity of topical areas and conceptual continuity.…

Reports the results of a follow-up study of students in order to determine if the social and historical perspectives taught as a part of a two-semester sociology course remained actively in use several years beyond graduation. Results showed that the students did not apply these perspectives to decision-making and other issues in their daily…

Maintains that usual method of analyzing student evaluation of teaching (SET) data is inappropriate. Shows results of both ordinary least squares (OLS) and multinominal logit data analysis approaches on 6,872 student evaluation of economics faculty at University of California, Santa Barbara during the 1983-84 academic year. Results show…