This article describes and evaluates an innovative way to teach a counseling theories and practices course to beginning counseling students. Evaluation included self-peer, student-staff, and staff-student evaluations. Results suggest that this approach might be a useful alternative to teaching the traditional didactic course in theories and…

Suggests criteria which an ideal first course in speech might meet: (1) focus on the elements typical in all speech communication behavior, (2) delete formal individual oral performance, and (3) utilize the empirical data produced by the behavioral scientists.'' (Author)

Explores a rhetoric of science and technology and hales it as the only language connecting an international community, prompted by the failure of the humanities to create a functional rhetoric. (RB)

The article focuses upon an experiment in a university class designed specifically to teach geographic concepts. Attention is placed on the degree certain concepts can be learned and some factors which affect the degree of learning. (Author)

Teacher education departments should be evaluated in costs involved, subject matter competence, and pedagogical prowess. (Editor/HS)

The only way to effectively use course evaluations is to reconstruct programs according to the evaluations. (HS)

Results of the study indicated favorable differences for the home economics education graduates who completed the experimental undergraduate course in employment education in regard to their attitude toward the employment emphasis, their knowledge about the employment aspect, and their teaching preferences in occupational programs. (Author)

Critiqued is a paper on student evaluation of instructors by David Dilts which appeared in the "Journal of Economic Education," Spring 1980. Shortcomings and problems in Dilts' work are examined, and an alternative estimation procedure, using a statistical interpretation, is proposed. (Author/RM)

After factor analyzing teacher evaluations by students into three dimensions, research indicates significant relationships between expected grade and course effectiveness with a non-bias interpretation, and teacher effectiveness and course difficulty with a bias interpretation. The effects of course type on grades and ratings are discussed with…

Describes and evaluates a college level psychology of aging course which actively involved students in projects that integrated personal experience with cognitive learning. Intellectual mastery is a sufficient goal in many college courses. However, in courses on aging, additional objectives, such as emotional growth and attitude change, must be…

The evaluation of educational programs in higher education needs a better theoretical base than it has had. Proposals as to what that base should encompass are discussed and an approach that involves a more adequate conceptual and procedural model is explored. Focus is on a systems viewpoint. (JMD)