Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novels and stories exemplify some of the main issues surrounding women's texts and their place in literature: aesthetic value, intellectual challenge, universality, and contemporary popularity. Her work, it may be argued, betrays occasional aesthetic imperfections; however, she produced a tremendous amount of published…

Although the majority of the teaching faculty at U.S. universities is composed of people who are scientific experts, research has found that most scientists do not have information about effective teaching methods (DeHaan 2005). Traditional lecture-style college science teaching does not reflect knowledge about best teaching practices based upon…

This paper gives a detailed description of the needs analysis (NA) stage in the development of a set of English language intensive courses at a large Japanese industrial firm. The case study highlights the NA practices of using multiple sources and multiple methods in the data gathering stage and uses triangulation in order to validate results.…

To promote the use of scientific inquiry methods in K-12 classrooms, departments of teacher education must provide science teachers with experiences using such methods. To comply with state and national mandates, an apprenticeship course was designed to afford preservice secondary science teachers opportunities to engage in an authentic, extended,…

An in-service or pre-service course for teachers in population awareness developed at the University of North Carolina is described. (HB)

An undergraduate course in motor learnings was offered to get students to read widely, think deeply, and write extensively about motor learning. (JA)

Article discussed the Science of Creative Intelligence, a new academic discipline designed to stimulate students toward greater achievement in school while increasing their energies thereby making them more outgoing. (RK)

This catalog begins with a brief history of the Agency for Instructional Television, and it includes descriptions of some of the agency's projects and a list of its staff members. The bulk of the text, however, is devoted to the listing of over 100 educational videotapes and tape series. Each tape or series is listed according to subject and grade…

Courses to be presented in 12 states for the benefit of professional personnel in health and related fields are listed and briefly described. The courses were developed by the Program of Continuing Education in Public Health, with the aid of Graduate Schools of Public Health of the University of California at Berkeley and at Los Angeles, the…

A look at how to devise a course in television studies at a college of further education in Great Britain. (HB)