The article discusses the career development theory (a theory of life stages and developmental tasks, career patterns, and individual differences) and what to expect of elementary/secondary career education and guidance programs in terms of planning, objectives, curriculum development, and evaluation methods, processes, outcomes, and criteria in…

In developing two course/instructor evaluation instruments, four areas were considered by the appointed committee: determining the criteria to be evaluated, designing the forms, writing implementation instructions, and assessing faculty participation in the use of forms. The resulting instruments are presented. (BP)

The profession of English needs desperately to define its terms, in order to end the present state of conceptual chaos in professional discussions.

Recent research on effects of different ways of marking student compositions is reviewed.

An effective American History-English course, emphasizing acting, interviewing, and writing skills, is described. (JH)

Offers tips on classroom techniques aimed at maintaining motivation among students while meeting their varied needs and fulfilling the requirements of an intermediate Russian course. (Text is in Russian.) (DH)

Presents results of a survey given to college students concerning the use of a planetarium in courses and their decisions to take the courses. (CP)

Describes a course, taught in Jamaica, for prospective high school physics teachers that stresses concepts which are difficult to teach and easily misunderstood by students. Also stresses preparing high school students to take national exams and teaching physics in poorly equipped laboratories. (MLH)

Describes eight experimental courses in a series called the Man Series, instituted at Purdue University to improve the social dimensions of engineering education. Each course is team taught by engineering, humanities, and social science faculty members and is interdisciplinary in nature. (MLH)

Weekly testing coupled with a mastery performance requirement generated higher student performance in an introductory psychology class. (DE)

Station teaching can help solve problems of keeping student interest and providing individualized instruction in the junior high school language class. Students work individually on certain exercises and check their own progress at each station. (CHK)

Eight lessons for elementary students which increase sensitivity for the aging process are presented. For journal availability see annotation SO 504 171. (DE)

Problems of educability, analysis of learning situations, importance of home environment, nutrition, health, plasticity of intellect, importance of affect, importance of shared purposes, control of decision-making, importance of social class mix, and the relevance of schooling are among the issues discussed. (AM)