English language teaching (ELT) has played an important role in the Chinese Radio and Television Universities (RTVU) network since its establishment in the late 1970s. Based on a literature review and reflection from an insider's perspective, this paper gives a full account of the RTVU distance ELT model, examining how it supports autonomous…

Purpose: This paper aims to provide a TQM framework that stresses continuous improvements in teaching as a plausible means of TQM implementation in higher education programs. Design/methodology/approach: The literature survey of the TQM philosophies and the comparative analysis of TQM adoption in industry versus higher education provide the…

Presents an "infobase" version of "A Pilot Standard National Course Classification System for Secondary Education" to allow users to browse, search, annotate, print, and export information electronically. This publication is the culmination of a major effort to help establish common terminology, descriptions, and a coding…

Provides an assessment chart that can be used in evaluating students in student-oriented, inquiry-oriented science courses. (BR)

Evaluation of students in Minneapolis during and after the Developmental Economic Education Program (DEEP) shows a decrease in economic knowledge with the termination of the program. (DE)

Three review courses for the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) examination are described. Although the courses appear to be effective, the limitations of the ECFMG examination as a screening device for foreign medical graduates make it unwise to expand the number of such courses. (Editor)

Documentation of immersion and post-immersion (secondary level) programs in the Montreal area shows that students are switching from post-immersion to regular programs, which include French as a second language. A survey was undertaken in the spring of 1979 to assess the number of students switching out of post-immersion classes, the grade level…

Five hundred and thirteen ninth grade students in San Diego, California, used the junior high economics textbook "Our Economy: How It Works" (Addison-Wesley, 1980) in a semester-long course and then were evaluated. The text uses case studies about the manufacture of familiar products, financial institutions, and government to make…

Several of the major law studies projects are placed on a continuum and briefly analyzed as to conceptual base. At one end of the continuum is the Street Law Model representing projects dealing with real legal problems is the inner city. At the other end of the contiuum are the Conceptual Law Models dealing with legal concepts. (Author/DE)

Accounted is the supervisory training program currently in operation in the printing and publishing industry. The purpose of the training program is to increase managerial efficiency and to better prepare new supervisors. (DS)

A new test construction methodology was proposed and its validity and viability were demonstrated. (Author/RK)

Reported are the results of a questionnaire survey of 86 nurses attending a one day workshop on traction. Subjects were asked to evaluate the workshop and various materials handed out during the workshop. Sixty-three questionnaires returned indicated favorable response to the workshop and materials provided. Materials used in the workshop are…

The course described in the paper is organized around a set of modules, each containing lectures, readings, a simulation game, films, and a research exercise. (Author/ND)