During an analysis of the nature of the curricular-instructional process of US higher education, faculty members were classified into 5 prototypes based on their styles of teaching. The recitation class teacher limits the process of reasoning by students. The content-centered faculty member helps his students to master what "knowledgeable" people…

The entering college freshman needs an orientation program that can provide him with the personal skills--a better understanding of himself and his learning style, development of communication skills--necessary to thrive in the college environment. At the National Conference on Student Stress in 1965, it was estimated that many students leave…

Although research on creativity has had virtually no impact on higher education except in rare instances, the chances are good that this will change in the 1970s. Creativity research has had an increasingly greater effect on pre-primary, primary and secondary education, and more and more students are prepared to do such research when they enter…

This paper is an attempt to respond to the need for workable procedures for assessing the effectiveness of programs and institutions in complex postsecondary education systems. Effectiveness is taken to mean the capacity of the institution to advance student development-academic, vocational, and affective. Four general strategies are outlined in…

This report examined student performance expectancies based on self-evaluation of past performance and personal ability. The subjects included 230 male fifth and sixth graders from six randomly selected public elementary schools from a lower-middle class income area of Van Dyke, Michigan. The Arithmetic Computation Test and the Arithmetic…

In the present study, a form of individualized instruction is compared with the conventional lecture approach. Hourly and final exams given to both groups indicate a superiority for students under individualized instruction, which, while highly significant statistically, represents only moderate pragmatic gains. Attitude questionnaires indicate…

Teachers in the English department at the Harley School, Rochester, New York, developed a program in theater as a continuing and inherent part of the English curriculum. (Author/RK)

Article focused on current programs dealing with the future, and the development of students so that they can better understand the problems of today as the challenges of the future. (RK)

Article provided a short, series of steps teachers can follow when examining reading in secondary subject matter. These steps were intended to aid the secondary teacher (especially those with no formal training in reading instruction) to improve effective reading in the classroom. (Author/RK)

Author stressed the need for a new moral consciousness and the leadership of educators willing to first seek it in themselves. (Author/RK)

In Clinton, Iowa, some fourth graders have benefited from a different sort of program, setting up what they have labeled their "morgue". Article described how the students brought some excitement to learning about the insides of their bodies. (Editor/RK)

Career education must be better in order to produce students who can bring to their work the ability to communicate and to reason, not just perform specific work processes. A strong mind is more important than a strong back in our sophisticated technological society. (MF)

In addition to specific occupational skills, vocational students must learn how to interact effectively with people on the job. The author discusses how job tasks affect interaction patterns and how these interactions affect the work. (MF)

Who and what are school records? How accurate and fair is the information teachers put in them? Should parents and pupils be allowed access to such documents? Author has examined the files of 600 children, and is disturbed by what he finds there. (Editor/RK)

Adolescents, struggling to achieve a sense of autonomy and independence from their parents, peers, and teachers, can experience some measure of self-realization as they encounter ideas in their reading, work with them, and express them in writing. Gives a guide for writing papers and examines the problems and progress of individual students…