Discusses the need to prepare library school graduates for bibliographic instruction responsibilities, and describes the background, development, implementation, and evaluation of a course offered at the University of Illinois which combined bibliographic instruction theory and practice. Recommendations for future education in bibliographic…

A six-step method was used to evaluate and revise a computer literacy course for preservice teachers at Kansas State University. Sex equity concepts were integrated into all aspects of the course as a means of influencing attitudes and behavior. (MT)

Describes a course prepared for the Open Learning Institute of British Columbia to provide educators and trainers with the knowledge and skills to design and implement distance education programs. Course content covers distance education systems; creating, adapting, and acquiring instructional materials; delivery of instruction; and theory of…

Discusses use of the Sperrylink Office System, which incorporates word and data processing, personal computing, and electronic mail, filing, and retrieval in one unit, to prepare secretarial science students at Westchester Community College for the job market. (MBR)

Discusses the drawbacks of specific behavioral objectives in teaching and argues for more general planning. The dimensions that make up instructional objectives are described and specific and general objectives are contrasted. Positive aspects of general objectives are listed. (SB)

Argues for a curriculum more responsive to the job expectations of different groups of pupils. (Editor)

The method used to analyze and redefine a set of educational objectives is described on which a new course of teaching general practice in the later clinical years is based. The course, learning methods, behavioral attainments, and evaluation techniques are included. (Author/LBH)

Designing a senior seminar as a "capstone" course for English majors provided an educator the opportunity to devise a course that might provide the majors and anyone who teaches the course an experience of what Paulo Freire calls "liberatory education." According to the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education…

In North Carolina schools, the grade 10 writing assessment will be given once a year in the spring semester to all 10th-grade students. This change from an English II End-of-Course Test to a grade-specific test emphasizes the need for writing across the curriculum. This document is designed to illustrate correlation between high school courses and…

The purpose of this study was to conduct an exploratory investigation of a new course initiative in counselor education for working with culturally diverse populations. The study investigated: (1) outcomes of curriculum targeting multicultural competencies; (2) whether prior training experience in multicultural counseling would have an impact on…

This paper explains that an interdepartmental writing across the curriculum course at Syracuse University was developed and proposed by a writing teacher and a professor of experimental psychology and psychopharmacology. The paper states that the course, Perspectives on Drug Experience, was to be offered in both writing and psychology and sought…

Evidence is presented concerning achievement of cognitive objectives in a college course on drugs. A mastery grading system insured that students learned to criterion. Reported experience with drugs did not change during the course and was unrelated to measures of learning and student ratings of the course and the instructors. (Author)

Initiates discussion of a coherent set of objectives for semi-vocational English instruction and courses. (TO)

Discusses the use of varied resources to conduct undergraduate systems design courses at the Drexel University with the support of the Sloan Foundation. The purpose is to provide students with an ability to develop solutions to problems encountered in a real, living, and dynamic situation. (CC)