A model of inquiry predicted that students would ask more questions and make more declarative statements when the teacher asked questions at a relatively low rate and used questions encouraging students to draw on their own experiences and contribute to a class discussion. The model was tested by observing each of 32 elementary teachers in three…

The purpose of this conference was to explore what is currently being done with computers in medical education, what future goals should be established for computers, and how these goals should be implemented in medical education. Five speeches and four panel discussions dealt with computers in undergraduate medical education, clinical medical…

Entertainment films are being increasingly used as a means of stimulating discussion of contemporary problems, ethical issues, and cross generational dialog. In order to help teachers and organizations deal fully and responsibly with such films, this directory references 100 "entertainment" films under categories such as sex and marriage, justice…

This paper identifies a problem concerning the practice of adult education, and describes one person's response to that problem. The problem is the lack of systematic evaluation of instruction in the field of adult education, and, more particularly, the absence of sufficient evaluation literature that is both useful and practical to those who earn…

Proceedings of a two-day charrette or "brainstorming session" held to explore ideas for the schools generally and for the new high school specifically, are outlined. An initial slide presentation by the planning team of some innovative educational facilities is described in text and sketches. Goals and possible building solutions…

The authors describe a three day symposium held on death. Several movies concerning death were presented. Various people from the community talked about their experience with death and extensive workshop discussions concluded the symposium. All participants indicated that they had benefited from the symposium. (SE)

Procedures are suggested for helping students to revise their papers. (JH)

Presents ideas for teaching basic skills. Includes strategies for teaching about human rights, directions for making an adding machine to use in addition and subtraction drill, activities for developing effective discussion skills, and suggestions for teaching place-name geography. (JMB)

SYNCON is a tool to examine future options; it is a process that begins with small groups, merges to larger composite groups, and finally one total group so that all members of a group can contribute towards the solution of a complex problem. (Author)

This study was undertaken to develop an affective, small-group experience for helping children cope with death and to investigate the effectiveness of the experience in reducing children's anxieties about death. The generally positive results suggest that affective death education experiences such as this one should be made available to children.…

Tests the assumption that the aspects of a group's behavior that lead to judgments of quality probably are equally important and assesses the theoretical import of a discovery indicating differences in the relative impact of different variables on perceptions of the quality of decision making discussions. (MH)

Six persons of differing professional experience discuss the issue of advocacy as it relates to student volunteer programs. (MF)