This article details a process that helps high school counselors use their affective skills in the classroom. A structured approach is recommended. (Author)

Describes fourth graders' observations and hypotheses about the sun and moon and how the three-dimensional reality gradually replaced the inadequate two-dimensional models of textbooks. Discusses implications for instruction of this progression from concrete to abstract. (HTH)

Offers an analysis of methods used by a sample of seven colleges to evaluate and document college-level knowledge acquired experientially. Looks at practices in terms of evaluation methodology, documentation, and quality control. Details the portfolios review process used at St. Joseph's College. (DMM)

Study showed that experience-based economic education at the high school level, as opposed to the traditionally watered-down approach, results in the transfer of economic reasoning/thinking to everyday decision making. (RM)

Described is a project in which third graders create their own corporation--a cupcake factory--and learn first-hand about economic principles and the decisions that businesses must make in the market economy. The cupcake factory is one example of how enterprising educators can make economics comprehensible and captivating. (RM)

The Learning Style Inventory assesses learners' preferences. This study was designed to determine reliability and construct validity of Kolb's original ipsative instrument and an alternate normative form. The alternate version was found as reliable as the original, was equivalent in measuring characteristics, and demonstrated comparable construct…

Describes an experimental academic course on marriage and family therapy supervision. The course, an adapted version of an institute program, was taught in four stages, combined a seminar and a practicum, and culminated with live supervision of live supervision. (Author)

Discusses man's responsibility for the earth and for mankind and the need to foster responses and skills based on understanding the interconnectedness of all things. Outlines characteristics of "survivor personality" and relates these to experiential education values. (LFL)

Focuses on specific concepts of the child care profession and on criteria for quality care, listing five charges for the National Association for the Education of Young Children regarding the education of the American public about the profession. (BJD)

Reports on a study (of 79 Navajo women) that compared the predictiveness of two types of learning experience (schooling and weaving) for pattern continuation skills across varying domains and contexts. Questions the notion that what is learned in particular experiences automatically improves skills in general. (KH)

Examination of training by classroom role-play with flashcards, classroom role-playing with slides, or classroom role playing with slides and in-vivo store training revealed a functional relationship between the combined slide and the in-vivo strategy and correct performance across a range of nontrained probe stores for four severely retarded Ss.…

The Challenge education program for student teachers entails selecting and performing challenging tasks in six areas: cognitive development, logical inquiry, adventure, creativity, practical skill, and volunteer service. The program is credited with helping break down sex-role stereotypes, building a sense of accomplishment, and developing…

A successful challenge education program at a small private school is described. Students in grades 10 through 12 spend mornings on traditional academic subjects and afternoons on both guided and independent challenge projects. (MJL)

Evaluated the effectiveness of a coping skills and modeling program for training rehabilitation counselors in conflict management. Subjects were 43 rehabilitation education students. Results confirmed the effectiveness of the experiential training program, and indicated trainees had been totally unprepared for successful conflict management. (JAC)

Looks at what is entailed when education and experience are regarded as equivalent. Identifies faulty inferences resulting from learning by experience. Considers how experience can close avenues to conceptual and social change. Argues that ideas based on secondhand information are more likely than firsthand experience to manifest both the real and…