Explores three problems emerging since transfer of Canadian English as second language teaching method to People's Republic of China: (1) assumption that teaching methodologies are exportable and acceptable in same way as modern technology, (2) lack of clarity between scientific and educational theories, and (3) assumption that these teaching…

Discusses an instructional method that uses a videotape-telephone system to teach graduate level courses to students working in industrial locations up to 250 miles from the main campus. (MLH)

Seventeen five-member groups of secondary students were studied as they attempted to solve a science problem through group discussion. Results of the study show both advantages and disadvantages of this type of instruction. (MLH)

This study analyzed the effectiveness of an instructional model in environmental education and ecological foundations. Preservice elementary science methods students were tested for their ability to define environmental education and to acquire ecological concepts. Results indicate a significant gain in these areas by the experimental group. (MR)

Discusses a chemistry course, taught by the Keller Plan, that includes only students who have received a D or F in a previous chemistry course. (MLH)

Presents a computational method based on a Monte Carlo generation of a large number of chemical reactions. The reactions are allowed to proceed on the basis of relative probabilities. (MLH)

Proposes that science fiction novels contribute to study of political science, and discusses specific novels and their application to political science. (ND)

Peter Drucker discusses current issues in education such as teacher development and encouragement of alternative methods of learning/teaching. (GW)

A model of evaluative procedures for teachers, intended to assist teachers in meeting demands for accountability, was developed and researched by teacher educators in California. (GW)

The primary purposes of this project were to (a) determine the extent of faculty interest in learning more about instructional techniques and (b) to begin to provide a service to cater to this end. (Author)

The Oregon System in Mathematics Education tries to rid teachers of their long-standing fear of math and help them see it as a useful, problem-solving tool. (Editor)

Does the artist or the art teacher teach art more effectively? What does the artist really have to offer the students that existing school personnel and programs do not? While one art educator found the Artists-in-Schools program ineffective for student development, another art teacher thought the program should be supported. (Author/RK)

The repertory grid technique was used to explore psychopaths' interpersonal and personal construct systems. Subjects were asked to construe as individuals, and subjects were asked how they thought people in general construed the situations. Psychopaths showed a significant degree of general misperception about people in general. (Author)

The structured audit and teaching methods for teaching physician's assistants physical diagnosis used during 1974-75 by medical students to teach other medical students at the Stanford University School of Medicine are described. The performance of six student-taught first-year medical students is compared with that of five faculty-taught…

A program was devised at the Iowa College of Medicine to solicit volunteer mothers and their toddlers to help teach well-baby examinations. Peers were used to review the adequacy of the examination relative to specific anatomic-procedural items; the mothers evaluated the affectual aspect of the mother-student, child-student relationship. (LBH)