This course instruction manual for Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee's Technical Writing II Course emphasizes preparation, data collection, organization, style, and format in the composition of memos, business letters, resumes, reports, and proposals. Major course objectives include organizing, composing, and presenting memos, letters, and…

This study investigated the structure and content of technology courses at 25 colleges of education. Data were collected through interviews at two professional conventions, followed up by e-mail communication. Course syllabi were collected via e-mail and downloaded from the Internet. Two main types of teaching structures were found at the…

This paper explains that an interdepartmental writing across the curriculum course at Syracuse University was developed and proposed by a writing teacher and a professor of experimental psychology and psychopharmacology. The paper states that the course, Perspectives on Drug Experience, was to be offered in both writing and psychology and sought…

Evidence is presented concerning achievement of cognitive objectives in a college course on drugs. A mastery grading system insured that students learned to criterion. Reported experience with drugs did not change during the course and was unrelated to measures of learning and student ratings of the course and the instructors. (Author)

Follows a group of black college students during a semester course designed to enrich their verbal skills and their understanding of themselves through guided study of literary works by black writers. (TO)

A description of the process by which a second-level media course was developed for the teacher education program at Iowa State University. (Author)

Describes "Studies in the Physical Sciences" (SPS), an audiotutorial physical science course designed for non-science elementary school classrooms. The course is completely laboratory-centered with no formally scheduled classes. Students can work at their own speed, choose what they will study from the sixteen units available and design…

Reviews the historical development of physical science teaching at Winchester College with emphases upon practical problems encountered in the early introduction of science curricula to the school system. (CC)

Describes a course in microbiology offered as a high school science elective. The laboratory-oriented course has proved to be very popular and provides students with the basic techniques for handling equipment and working safely with bacteria. (JR)

Discusses experience of teaching inservice training courses to secondary physics teachers at a teachers' college in Northern Peru. Indicates that the materials used are at the level of the IPS and PSSC materials and most teachers lack practical experience in laboratory work. (CC)

Discusses an interdisciplinary course offered to senior students in physical, biological, and social sciences, with emphases on explaining the character of scientific work and the mechanisms underlying biological evolution. Included is a bibliography of available materials. (CC)

Due to variations in the qualifications required for vocational teachers, a prototype associate degree program is suggested and the details described in this article. The effect of the program would be to unify the credentials of vocational educators and to assist in supplying qualified vocational-technical teachers. (DS)

Discusses the use of varied resources to conduct undergraduate systems design courses at the Drexel University with the support of the Sloan Foundation. The purpose is to provide students with an ability to develop solutions to problems encountered in a real, living, and dynamic situation. (CC)