Describes the objectives and content of a freshman physics laboratory course designed to eliminate the cook-book type of experiments. Instead, students are encouraged to devise their own experimental designs, execute the experiments, and interpret the results in their own way. The authors report that student reaction to the course is generally…

Discusses the philosophy underlying the development of "Living with Technology," a new foundation course developed at the Open University. Additionally, a new model of course development is discussed which is designed to evaluate and revise the course in the light of student and tutor feedback. Eight references are listed. (Author/LLS)

Discusses the successful educational media course in library instruction at Miami University, Ohio, and presents the results of a survey of the educational background and previous library instruction of students taking the course. A copy of the questionnaire is appended. (RBF)

To improve an ongoing training session, the author suggests holding 20- to 30-minute evaluation meetings at the end of each day. Trainers and representative trainees identify learning problems, air issues, and propose modifications for the next class or session. (SK)

Describes a word processing course which is structured to provide a hands-on experience with all the elements present in a centralized word processing center. The program provides expanded information processing capabilities to faculty and administrative offices plus experience for students in the utlization of modern equipment and systems…

Through a review of a language development course, the author discusses the ways in which linguistic knowledge is presented to students, reports on his direct experience of working as a tutor, and examines what he thinks should be the characteristic relationship between linguistics and inservice pedagogy. (Author/KC)

Examines effects of prequiz discussion on student interest in and understanding of material in an introductory college psychology course. Findings indicated that prequiz evaluation may have affected the number of students completing the course, although it had no effect on initial quiz score or on number of attempts to unit mastery. (DB)

Used data collected during the semester to examine two issues concerned with computer assisted instruction in economics: What factors determined student usage of the lessons and what factors caused variation in student evaluation of the helpfulness of the lessons. (Author/IRT)

Questions the validity of a multiple-choice evaluation in which university students evaluated a lecture which had been cancelled. Comparison of this evaluation with evaluation of a film on sex and communication, which had been viewed by approximately 50 percent of the students, is offered. (Author/DB)

The scholarship of teaching and learning approach and input of key stakeholders provide a multidimensional framework for evaluating business capstone courses. Steps include identifying standards and practices for benchmarking, identifying faculty perceptions of core knowledge and skills, collecting student feedback, and including the perspectives…

Examines a college seminar's capacity to reduce stress by evaluating a psychology seminar on stress management over a six-year period. Students reported significantly less general anxiety, general anger, situational stress reactivity, and stress-related physiological reactivity after taking the class. Follow-ups of two classes indicated…

Analyzes college geometry courses with regard to content, pedagogy, and assessment based on 30 syllabi and 108 questionnaire responses from randomly selected U.S. colleges and universities. Concludes that common characteristics are evident but wide diversity exists. Notes that a typical geometry course did not emerge from the data. (Contains 20…

Soil science was taught to 70 students on campus, 7 locally via videotapes and videoconferencing, and 10 at a distance. Findings support literature indicating that, regardless of location or method, distance learning is not a contributing variable in achievement. Student-student and student-instructor interactions influence satisfaction. (Contains…