Describes an experiment in which biofeedback training was used with student instrumentalists to decrease unnecessary muscular tension and fatigue and to improve dexterity and speed. (SJL)

Presents strategies that teach children how to write in order to demonstrate, to facilitate, and to record science learning. Also suggests using frame of reference- how a writer views and interprets an issue by comparing different source accounts of science questions. (Author/JN)

Reports on the development of a home intervention strategy at the secondary school level to improve students' writing abilities. (HOD)

Explores ways teachers can intervene in the writing process to help students advance in their writing. (JL)

Prescribes steps that can be taken to overcome the problems of teaching the research paper. (JL)

Recent trends in physical education programs show a diverse spectrum of clients and an increasing amount of health-related litigation. These developments call for increased emphasis on exercise prescription. The sit-up is used in an example of a step-by-step guide to prescriptive technique. (JN)

Physical education should be considered a basic component of education since it contributes to the total development of the individual. However, physical education objectives have not been reached, in spite of research supporting the goals and a large percentage of students participating in physical education programs. (JN)

Describes and illustrates a writing assignment in which students assume the role and the voice of someone they perceive as different from themselves, requiring attention to appropriate--not necessarily "correct"--language styles. (RL)

Outlines a program in journal writing and self-assessment for college students. (AEA)

Proposes the newspaper as a source of plots, characters, and motivations that can be used by students for short story material. (FL)

Describes the writing of the formal technical report as a project for students in technical writing courses. Includes grading criteria for such a report. (HTH)

A recent trend in community recreation programing is to implement special fitness programs for the disabled. However, physical fitness programing should present the opportunity for the disabled individual to move toward his optimal level of functioning and to return to a normal healthful lifestyle. (JN)

Anxious college students were assigned to transcendental meditation (TM) and a control treatment. Demographic and pretest personality variables were correlated with continuation in treatment. The TM dropout was more disturbed and less self-critical than the person who continued. Differing treatment rationales rendered the treatments effective for…

Cardiovascular endurance is defined as the ability of the heart, lungs, and circulatory system to provide the cells of the body with the necessary substances to perform work for extended periods of time. People beginning such a program need to have an understanding of warming-up, intensity, duration, and frequency of an exercise program. (JN)

Examines the discrepancy between writing ability in composition classes and poor writing in other classes and suggests exercises that will better prepare composition students for the writing that will be required of them in other courses and in their careers. (HTH)