Criticizes educational "bandwagon" movements developed by "barbarians" who exploit and manipulate students while rejecting the learning principles characteristic of humanistic education. (RL)

Paper presented to the staff of the English Language Branch--Defense Language Institute; Lockland Air Force Base, Lockland, Texas, 1973. (HW)

Revised version of a paper presented at the Seminar on English Teaching in Iran, Tehran, April 1971. (DD)

A description of the flap board, a programed game in which students learn to think efficiently through the desire to win the game. (HB)

Examines problems associated with the increase in non-streaming in British comprehensive secondary schools. Science teachers, for example, are being faced with classes that contain a wide range of student abilities. Provides guidelines for providing suitable teaching and learning conditions in non-streamed science classrooms. (JR)

Describes a tape-guided field trip that has been used successfully with college biology students in the University of California Botanical Garden. This program enables large numbers of students to make individual biological observations in the field with the aid of a specially tailored, taped guide. (JR)

Describes the methods of individualized instruction and teaching by example as effective tools in chemistry courses to bring disadvantaged students up to an acceptable level of competence. (CC)

Discusses the development of a one-year laboratory course in an effort to provide a link between traditional laboratories devoted to a single area of chemistry and the total involvement of a single narrow research project. Included are outlines of 32-hour lectures and 11 experiments performed in the integrated course. (CC)

Job satisfaction ratings-defined as the product (Importance) X (what job should offer, what job actually offers) on 29 job dimensions were factor analyzed for two large samples of management--level males. An identical analysis was conducted on the perceived discrepancy score alone. While the importance weighted measure is more elegant and…

Questions the semantic behavior of English teachers in classroom situations, demanding of them the same high standards and communication accuracy they demand of their students. (RB)

Stresses the importance of careful diagnosis for each child, concluding that by working with such related skills as listening comprehension, spatial relations, and auditory association the overall effectiveness of a reading program for spanish-speaking children may be increased significantly. (RB)