Provides a detailed description of Eastern Michigan University's field experience course for home economics, including course development, organization, and administration; field placement; evaluation; and the pre-enrollment workshop. (SK)

Describes a comparative psychology course in which advanced college students learn by observing animals in their natural habitats in Kenya. The author tells how the objectives of master of observation, taxa adaptive behavior, echo systems, conservation, and field methods are satisfied. (RM)

Controversy continues over the merits of field-based teacher education as a superior preparation system versus campus-based preservice teacher education. The first in a series of articles addressed to this controversy focuses on the problem of the lack of autonomy in schools of education. (JN)

Questionnaires relating to employment status, job satisfaction, and job search methods were completed by graduates of a program in human services (N=156). Results indicated that graduates are finding employment with human service agencies and are satisfied with other positions. Field experiences often provided employment opportunities. (RC)

This program at Tulane University gives second-semester seniors the opportunity to perform in an industrial environment under the guidance of both an industrial and an academic advisor. (BB)

Most midwestern state college and university teacher education programs are establishing early field experience programs for students. This experience is often made a distinct element of the teacher education program and is required of all students. (CJ)

Describes and evaluates an independent travel-study program at Western Illinois University and examines ways in which travel-study programs can benefit students in college level geography programs. In addition, presents suggestions for improving college level geography programs, including renewing the commitment to a world-oriented regional…

Elementary teacher candidates were pretested and posttested with the Graves Design Judgment Test. Of five approaches to analyzing change, only one, a transformation of posttest divided by pretest expressed in percentage, yielded significance. The hypothesis that a sculpture workshop and field experience would result in greater gains was not…

Greater learner satisfaction with program, instructor, and self-performance within the program is fostered by a cooperative learning structure rather than by an individualistic structure, as shown by this study. The use of appropriate cooperative learning structures within continuing education programs is suggested. (Author/GSK)

Most nursing assistant programs place emphasis primarily on the cognitive and psychomotor aspects of the student's education. The school must focus on career exploration to meet fully its responsibility for helping students prepare for work. (JOW)

The amount of learning will be primarily affected by the quality of the student's questioning. If the student is passive, the internship will become only a part-time job or a training experience. But if the student is an active, constructive questioner, he/she will be participating in the central mission of higher education. (LRA)

Among the findings reported in this national study of student teaching management in agricultural education was that the length of the student teaching period varied from 6 to 18 weeks. The number of hours the student was expected to spend teaching high school students varied from 20 to 360 hours. (LRA)

The Lucia Mar (California) school system turned to a high school industrial arts class when no money could be found to construct a needed administration building. The project provided a new building, at half the cost of conventional construction, and valuable job training for many secondary students. (Author/WD)

The subject of this opinion forum is the problem of student teacher placement into increasingly recalcitrant school systems. (LH)

A semester course at the law school of the University of North Carolina offers a unique experiment in controlled clinical legal education. It combines a thorough survey and analysis of major legal and constitutional issues in criminal sentencing with a broad exposure to courts and correction agencies and opportunities for students to take part in…