Describes a course designed to provide the student with the necessary motor skills and attitudes to treat the actely ill. (HS)

Author emphasizes the need to reevaluate Social Foundations courses and to rethink about where such courses belong in a student's education. (Author/RY)

The successive applications of the model of instruction discussed here resulted in marked improvements in the course as determined from a variety of indices of student performance. (Author)

This article describes incorporation of the goals of personal growth, knowledge of group process, and application of process groups in professional settings into a course. Evidence that students participating in the course tended to respond more freely to each other, justified the continuation of similar courses in the curriculum. (Author)

An experiment to test the effect of textbooks in a one year economic principles course at Temple University (1968-1969) is partially reported. Using the Test of Understanding College Economics (TUCE) as the dependent variable, no significant difference was found between classes using a variety of textbooks. (DB)

Comparisons are made between four college economic principles courses: one-semester live lectures, programed instruction, and televised lectures, and, two-semester televised lectures, the latter producing the greatest content learning. Opportunity costs and other implications are discussed. (DB)

This report summarizes the objectives and the method of a one-semester introductory economics course at Carnegie-Mellon University from the mid-60's, now updated. Also included is the substance of the course syllabus. (DB)

Describes a laboratory-centered introductory physics course for high school juniors and seniors. Course philosophy, objectives, laboratory procedures, syllabus, and evaluation methods are presented. A list of laboratory exercises, and a detailed description of three of them are included. (LC)

A satirical recounting of the benefits of maintaining a required course in written composition for college freshmen. (RD)

Findings from a study of California high school physics teachers and students show positive correlations between student perceptions of physics and (1) extent of teacher subject matter preparations, (2) teacher association with other physics teachers, (3) inclusion of historical, social, and political aspects of physics in course objective, and…

Describes the characteristics and applications of the seminar/autolecture system, which is an open-ended learning system combining recent advances in educational technology with recent findings in behavioral science. The autolecture involves the use of an overhead projector and a cassette tape recorder. The authors report that the instructional…

Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges (79th, Houston, Texas, November 1, 1968).