This volume offers an alternative diagnosis of the expectations gap that exists between students and professors. Professors' expectations often go far beyond students' assumptions about the nature of knowledge. It is not what students think but rather how they think that is important in the learning process. How students make meaning mediates how…

This study identified preservice teachers' knowledge about effective and ineffective classroom management strategies for defiant behavior. Data in the form of extended written responses were obtained from student teachers in a rural, southern teacher education program at the end of their student teaching experience in the spring semester.…

The Texas State Board of Education adopted the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) curriculum to ensure that all students meet the challenges of life in the new century. The information in this guide summarizes the TEKS expectations at each grade level in the foundation areas of English Language Arts and Reading, Mathematics, Science, and…

Paper is concerned with the problem of research needs for effective communication between people who have up to an eighth grade education and those who have an education from the twelvth grade and beyond. (RK)

Author asks that the value of education be examined, and to recognize that education is best which serves the individual by equipping him with the necessary skills to contribute to the building of a humane society. (Author/RK)

A program which collects information about the similarities and differences between American and a host national counterpart is described. How knowledge of this data has relevance to relations between the American and the host national and how, through educational procedures, this information can be disseminated, are also discussed. (Author/CG(

Discussions concluded that now is the time to develop criteria for measuring professional quality of practicing physicians and to improve learning processes in medical schools. (Editor/IR)

Discusses social problems, undergraduate education, and the role of the university. (IR)

Describes the most useful types of knowledge for developing the humane capabilities of individuals in contemporary American society and lists five specific implications for educational change. (JH)

Regional institutions of higher education would best serve the needs of our technological society in as much as such schools could focus on the vocational needs of a given geographic area. (CK)