Evaluates the amount of instructional time which is devoted to map reading and other geographic skills during social studies classes in elementary school. Identifies stages which pupils pass through as they learn to draw maps. Suggests that map experiences be integrated into the curriculum so that children can better accomplish map-related tasks.…

Presents a research study which investigated adolescent attitudes toward the police among two classes of ninth graders in ethnically mixed social studies classes. Students were shown 24 slides, asked questions about the slide, and asked to write a response to each slide. Results of the survey are discussed and additional uses of the survey…

The article discusses a study to ascertain what preservice teachers who had completed student teaching knew about and thought about social studies. A survey focused on definition, purpose, and content of social studies education. Results are discussed. (DB)

Analyzes how vocational education teachers on the high school level in Great Britain perceive the role of teacher in relation to their perceptions of occupational status within their former trades. Emphasis is placed on the uneasy coexistence which is seen to characterize the relations between education and training. (Author/DB)

Discusses a study undertaken to evaluate the influence of two community learning programs on the adolescent participants. Topics discussed include differences in staff roles in the programs, program characteristics, learning outcomes, and participant attitudes. Findings indicated that, in general, youth liked the community programs and learned a…

The author describes his system for confidentially assessing the social climate of a private school: the cost and procedures of the method and the data it generates for the school administrator. (SJL)

Chronicles the growth of oral history since 1948 and describes several classroom projects using the oral/aural technique. Projects focus on oral war accounts, an oral history of local businesses, and oral validity in history. (Author/DB)

Examines social science teaching in the Soviet Union and explains how it is related to technological advancement. Topics discussed include social progress, developments within the social sciences, political influences, teaching methods, and teacher characteristics. Journal availability: see SO 507 303. (DB)

Discusses a survey to determine cognitive consumer education knowledge among prospective secondary social studies teachers. Findings indicated that prospective teachers did not generally possess a high level of cognitive understanding and that teachers who had completed a consumer education course scored higher than those who had not. Journal…

Discusses a survey to investigate attitudes of parents and children in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Copies of the surveys are included in the article, along with a cover letter, and several charts and graphs illustrating findings. (DB)

Explores the relationship between lifelong learning and university education. Maintains that universities must seek a new balance for their functions, devise entrance requirements which demand hard intellectual effort as a prerequisite for university study, reinforce close links between research and education, and cooperate but not interfere with…

The author takes a critical look at the development, organization, personnel, and objectives of the Assessment of Performance Unit of England's Department of Education and Science. (SJL)

This discussion of Pimlico School's self-assessment procedures focuses on methods used for reconciling student grades from mixed-ability and from ability-grouped classes into a valid picture of individual and schoolwide attainment. (SJL)

Presents the College Outcome Measurement Project which can (1) measure certain adult competencies achieved through a liberal education; (2) provide a means for program evaluation; and (3) assist individual students to identify relative strengths and weaknesses in their own array of adult functioning competences. (CT)

Six participants in the Third International Conference on the Teaching of English share their views on the contributions made during the conference. (HOD)