Describes the training program for hospital personnel at Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK. Emphasizes the importance of improving the communication skills of health care employees. (PD)

Describes a course in medicinal chemistry for chemistry and biology majors who have a minimum background including one year of biological sciences and chemistry through organic. (MLH)

The present study was designed to test whether a group of teachers given a revised form of Achievement Motivation Training, a course intended to change the motivation tension system of the course participants, could, in turn, by training students outside of their regular school activity, generate a measurable improvement in their academic…

Most teachers still are not adequately prepared to cope with the problems or take advantage of the potentials inherent in technological changes in instruction. This article proposes an Instructional Development Course for Teachers, a type of training that rises above the know-how often stressed in educational media courses. (Author/ER)

Describes a college level minicourse utilizing photography and the camera to present basic physical optics. Included is an outline of topics and a listing of course objectives. (SL)

Article described a new art course developed to augment the students' experience with three-dimensional materials. (Author/RK)

This article attempted to give some insight into courses designed for non-art majors, who are required to take such courses for elementary certification. (RK)

Students learned to create head forms with clay at a special introductory class in Clay Portrait Sculpture at Vacaville High School, Vacaville, California. (Author/RK)

Discusses an electrochemical engineering course that combines transport phenomena and basic physical chemistry. Lecture notes and homework problems are used instead of a textbook; an outline of lecture topics is presented. (MLH)

Discusses a chemical engineering course which includes laboratory experiments on polymerization, polymer fabrication, and polymer properties. (MLH)

Describes a graduate chemical engineering course in transport phenomena that emphasizes jump conditions at phase boundaries and fluid-dynamic discontinuities. (MLH)

Describes a teaching method called Announced Repetitive Tests, in which students are allowed a number of times to master test questions similar to ones assigned as homework. (MLH)

Argues that under strict deadlines students develop into more careful writers, making fewer errors and creating better news stories, than do the students writing a story at a more leisurely pace. (RB)

Student publications can be used in teaching editing and writing skills in technical writing courses. (RB)

"Online Writing Tutorial" (OWI) was designed and piloted in the summer of 2000 as a one to two credit writing course intended for Rensselaer Polytechnic students on co-op assignment in New York and across the country. Similar to its ancestor course, "Writing Workshop" (WW), which was a one-credit course designed to fit the…