Auxiliary materials, exciting and varied formats, and consistent revision help provide high quality content to wide and scattered student audiences at a variety of hours. (Author)

Describes a problem solving teaching approach that can be used in dealing with real problems in the home economics classroom. (FL)

Explains the origins of the "Foxfire" project and suggests ways teachers of gifted students can create similar projects. (FL)

Describes the history, development and classroom uses of Chisanbop (finger numerals). Cites the results of research utilizing first grade mathematics classes, half using Chisanbop, half not, the Chisanbop group making significantly higher scores on the Iowa Basic Skills Test of computation than the control group. (DS)

A literature review indicates that computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in higher education can be both instructionally effective and cost effective. However, faculty members are reluctant to use new instructional technologies like CAI, as Florida Atlantic University's failure to implement television instruction shows. Strategies are suggested for…

This article describes the premises and procedures of Georgi Lozanov's method of foreign language teaching, called suggestology or suggestopedia. (SJL)

Discusses how biofeedback is being incorporated into the psychology curricula of undergraduate liberal arts colleges. Two hundred colleges were surveyed. Included is a discussion of biofeedback instrumentation and descriptions of a course, a field experience, and a workshop. Also examinded is a biofeedback innovation in a research-treatment…

Suggests that new developments in prescriptive theory offer an opportunity for instructional designers to combine research and practice in developing instruction. Ways in which instructional theories can facilitate practical applications are suggested. (MER)

Discusses the use of video in teaching poetry composition, where the video equipment becomes a feedback tool to help students write and present better poems. (CMV)