Advocates the use of little puppet plays for teaching English as a foreign language to elementary school children. (Available from English Inspectorate, Ministry of Education and Culture, P. O. Box 292, Jerusalem, Israel.) (CHK)

Examines the relationship between students' performances on cognitive examinations and their abilities to identify the most appropriate strategy in a given situation. (MH)

Four short lessons on Boolean Algebra were recorded on video tape. A week later the participating students were shown the tapes and asked to comment. Responses to the interviewer were recorded, transcribed, and interpreted. (SD)

Describes a successful language experience reading program integrated within highly motivating camping and recreational activities for title one children with reading difficulties. (RB)

Basic evaluation research of interim programs (concentrated curricular periods separated from the traditional semester) has employed three conceptual models. The three are identified, significant studies using them are outlined, and a fourth model is presented and recommended for use. (Editor/JT)

Instructors whose teaching was evaluated by students rated how applicable the evaluation items were to their classes. Results show that while weighting composite evaluation scores by means of faculty applicability judgments does not affect those overall scores, the distributions of certain items may be altered. (Editor/JT)

The author advocates interactive instruction of small groups of students, rather than lecturing, and offers advice to both teachers and students involved in discussion groups. (SD)

In answer to the quandry of environmental law teachers as to how to deal with the magnitude of environmental problems, the author proposes focus on the nature of the legal decision system as a tool for handling the environment before examining specific areas such as energy, transportation, etc. (JT)

Noting the limitations of clinical legal education when it focuses only on the learning of practical skills outside the classroom, the authors describe an experimental course in civil procedure designed to adapt clinical methods to the classroom by placing each student in the role of the lawyer in a specific case with class presentations and…

Supports a program format in which engineering is integrated with other subjects in order to displace the public's misconceptions of engineers. Offers program guide along with a funding-formula to distribute the cost of such a multidisciplinary approach in a university setting. (CP)

Teachers were surveyed concerning their major questions about modern mathematics curricula. Their questions were classified as concerned with reasons certain topics are included (12 per cent), how to teach particular topics (21 per cent) or miscellaneous. Nine recommendations are made. (SD)

This study investigated the emergence of combinatorial competence in early adolescence and the effectiveness of a programmed discovery training procedure. Significant increases in combinatorial skill with age were shown; it was found that the expression of this skill was significantly facilitated if problems involved concrete material of low…

Today as they have during the past 300 years, textbooks play the basic role in telling us who we are as a people and as a nation. (Editor)

A procedure is described for using a visual aid to elicit from a student a relatively elaborate mental image. In the context of that procedure, certain aspects of what happens inside and between people in a language classroom are explored. (Author/RM)

While faulty articulation can usually be remedied by practice (imitation), faulty sound-perception calls for different teaching techniques, including presentation of correct versus incorrect sounds, minimal and contrastive pairs taken from vocabularies of first-year English textbooks. Drills are suggested, aimed at distinguishing similar sounds…