Describes the effects of two prewriting strategies for the generation and storage of ideas (external storage and heuristic) on freshman English students' compositions in honors and basic writing classes. Both honors and remedial students produced the best essays when writing under conditions closely approximating their usual prewriting behavior.…

In this article, the author relates how she was able to facilitate a turn around with a seemingly hopeless regular English class. Her fourth class, which consisted of the thugs and slugs, was her first regular class as she had always been assigned the honors classes. Many of these students were repeating the class, having failed the previous year.…

Can the perceived boundary between professor and student be crossed? Can technology be used as a pathway to cross that boundary? These questions were answered as a result of a project initiated to meet the requirements in creating an honors option for an undergraduate educational psychology course. In constructing the course requirements, the…

Purpose: This paper aims to examine how students from foundation degrees (FDs) run at local further education colleges coped (academically and to a lesser extent psychologically) with the transition to a final year honours degree at a university. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based on the experience of FD graduates who joined the…

The purpose of this study is to examine the academic achievement, academic self-concepts, and aspirations of gifted college students who are enrolled in an honors program and of gifted college students who are not enrolled in an honors program. Participants include 294 gifted college students, 248 of whom were enrolled in an honors program and 46…

Honors and advanced placement (AP) courses are commonly viewed as more demanding than standard high school offerings. Schools employ a range of methods to account for such differences when calculating grade point average and the associated rank in class for graduating students. In turn, these statistics have a sizeable impact on college admission…

Questions about the suitability of cognitively-oriented instructional approaches for students of different academic levels are frequently raised by teachers and researchers. This study examined student participation in knowledge-building discourse in two implementations of a short inquiry unit focusing on environmental problems. Participants in…

In recent years, there has been heightened awareness of the importance of early childhood education and high school as intervention points in the educational lives of America's children. Less attention has been paid to the importance of the upper elementary grades and middle school and the role they must play in the preparation of students for…

Learning communities are a growing tool in use at colleges and universities around the country. In large part, these communities have been created in the hope that they will increase interaction among students and teach them to apply knowledge in meaningful ways. In addition to generating student interaction, learning communities should strive to…

In the early years of this century, Frank Aydelotte contributed to higher education by teaching at Indiana University and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and by serving as President of Swarthmore. In 1908, Aydelotte accepted his first major academic position at Indiana University, after completing his education at Oxford, England.…

The Honors Speech course at Florida A&M University, which is a special section of the Public Speaking course, is designed to develop appreciation of and skills in the preparation, delivery, and criticism of speeches. The honors course is different from the regular course in (1) the smaller enrollment in the course; (2) the topics of the…

At the request of the Multiple Curriculum Committee of the Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the current status of high school graduation requirements and related curricula offerings nationwide was studied. Reviews of current educational literature and working papers of the committee and telephone interviews with State…

THE ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF HONORS PROGRAMS IN ENGLISH IS TO BREAK SEVERAL EDUCATIONAL "LOCKSTEPS" WHICH HAVE BEEN FELT TO RETARD STUDENT INCENTIVE TOWARD MAXIMUM ACHIEVEMENT. THE SOPHOMORE COURSE IS A POINT OF DEPARTURE FOR A SERIES OF COURSES TO PREPARE THE SUPERIOR ENGLISH STUDENT FOR THE COLLEGE LEVEL COURSE IN HIS SENIOR YEAR. UNITS OF…

A CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY THE "INTER-UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE ON THE SUPERIOR STUDENT (ICSS)" IN COOPERATION WITH THE SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY WAS HELD FROM MAY 20 TO 23, 1964. THE CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO IDENTIFY SYSTEMATICALLY THE PROBLEMS OF ABLE WOMEN IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION AND SOCIETY, (2) TO…

Various honors programs designed to stimulate the intellectual efforts of high ability students in community colleges are described. Among the programs described are: the College Level Examination Program (CLEP), which demonstrates previous educational achievements by providing a comprehensive measure of five basic areas: English, natural…