Reviews a subjective exercise completed by students at the end of each of six units in an introductory organic chemistry course. Argues that instruction should be shaped by Ausubel's concept of meaningful learning. (DDR)

Reports on research by the Television Literacy Project on the effectiveness of courses designed to help viewers learn from television. Subjects were 386 secondary school students. Increases in viewing scores on posttests indicate that major improvements in learning from television are possible. Four tables present results by program type, learning…

Examines student psychological need satisfaction as a predictor of positive teacher-course evaluations. Presents results from two studies that examined different groups of students: (1) a sample of undergraduate students (n=268); and (2) a sample of introductory journalism students (n=179). Includes references. (CMK)

Describes a university-wide quality assurance system governing aspects of educational design for online courses that was developed at RMIT University (Australia). Highlights include policy that incorporates educational design, peer review, and formal evaluation of courses; course models; and achieving quality outcomes. (LRW)

Evaluated master's level course in gender and cultural issues in counseling. Graduate students (n=57) assigned to experimental or comparison groups completed measures of cultural awareness and gender attitudes before and after experimental group participated in the course. Results suggest that course did not effectively alter students' cultural…

Discusses integrating occupational health and safety engineering topics into existing engineering course work. Describes three models for integration and a procedure to assess the integration. (YP)

A study examined the extent to which expected grades, actual grades, and self-assessment of learning affected dental students' ratings of clinical courses. Expected and actual grades correlated slightly with course rating. Students' assessments of their learning correlated strongly with both overall course rating and ratings of specific teaching…

This paper contrasts active and passive learning environments, and describes efforts to create an active, critical learning environment in both "Introduction to Sociology" and "The Family System" typical lower division courses in sociology. There is a review of grade distributions, quantitative course evaluations, qualitative course evaluations,…

Describes the development/production of a college-level telecourse in United States government and makes a preliminary evaluation of its validity. Considers the telecourse concept; telecourse package; course development; content specialist's and advisory committee's roles; development of course/lesson objectives, video programs, and study and…

Evaluated is a course for twelfth graders to demonstrate a variety of aspects of applied science. The basic structure and content of the course are described. The evaluation results including achievement, interest/difficulty with other courses, lateral transfer, and attitudes are reported. Examples of problems and application questionnaire are…

Investigated gender differences among first-year medical students' attitudes toward discussion-oriented behavioral science course, performance on course essay, and locus of control. Found that female students generally evaluated course more favorably than did males, and scored more externally on locus of control measure. Found no sex differences…

Discussion of the use of the Internet and World Wide Web for interactive distance education courses focuses on the importance of providing iterative usability evaluation of online courses and strategies to ensure effective online course presentation. Design heuristics are suggested, including feedback, help and documentation, and controls for…

Presents results from questionnaires sent to past and present graduate tourism students from the Gippsland School of Business at Monash University (Australia) to determine factors that influenced student decisions to withdraw from a distance education tourism course. Tables present the rate of progression of students since course establishment,…

This article describes a teacher development activity in two different teacher training contexts. It is argued that the two different aspects of the activity exemplify important principles in the emerging model of trainee-centred teacher development. (15 references) (JL)

Course analysis and course descriptions have been used in a wide range of academic library assessment and decision-making projects; the analysis techniques of getting and representing the information and the descriptive formats (classification schedules, subject headings, and keyword queries) are compared and principles are established for…