This study investigated the educational process used in tumor boards (cancer case conferences) and whether the process varied based on type of board, frequency of meetings, and presence or absence of residency training programs in the hospital. These data were collected through observation of 715 board sessions of 37 hospitals and 43 tumor boards.…

Colleges' innovative efforts to bring alumni to campus for reunions illustrate how effective provocative promotions can be. Ideas include a game theme in brochures (Lewis and Clark College, Oregon), distribution of a 40-minute video (Gilman School, Maryland), class-targeted brochures (American University, District of Columbia), and a four-mailing…

Evaluated recruitment/retention program by surveying 794 adult students who participated in program from 1983 through 1989. Findings revealed that many participants obtained degrees in business or education, and most of them had declared these interests at their initial seminar. An extreme diversity in groups of older students was revealed.…

Describes pilot program at University of Louisville (Kentucky) which was designed to assist in orienting adult learners to the collegiate environment. Addresses special concerns of adult learners, including child care, career planning, academic support, personal support, and financial aid. Explains program development and presentation, materials,…

Discusses the results of a three-year collaborative research project documenting the effectiveness of the school reform process. The study describes efforts of the Consortium for the Advancement of Public Education in Southeast North Carolina (CAPE) to support schools as they change. Areas showing the most improvement included participative…

Evaluation of data on the sexual knowledge, needs, and experience of people with mental retardation found an unmet need for sexual knowledge, caused partly by the largely negative attitudes of caregivers and parents about the sexuality of these individuals. Available sex education programs were found to be generally inadequate and unproven. (DB)

Six studies examined the effectiveness of the elaborative interrogation teaching strategy, which involves students generating answers to "why" questions about facts about to be learned. The preschool and elementary students demonstrated higher factual recall when they were instructed to use their own elaborations of facts rather than…

Whether Effective Patient Teaching (EPT), a health professions continuing education course, could be effectively taught by trainers who were not course developers was studied for four nurse managers trained in EPT and seven who were not. Effectiveness of training and value of the EPT program were supported. (SLD)

Investigated effects of classwide peer tutoring on academic performance of students (n=7) with behavioral disorders and highest, middle, and lowest performing strata of nondisabled students (n=52) in regular education history class. Tutoring was associated with increases in individual test scores of students with behavioral disorders and…

Focuses on the relationship between the development of segmental awareness and dyslexia. Finds that students in two training programs that taught the skills required to use phonemes performed as well as normal readers on phoneme segmentation tasks. Notes that the improvements were correlated in dictation but not in reading. (RS)

Suggests that the dangers and risks in whole language are real and irremedial, and educators' only recourse is to take responsibility for its shadow side and attempt to learn the lessons that even "monstrous examples" portend. (RS)

Reviews research on the outcomes of college-level critical thinking classes, focusing on outcome variables, the design and selection of assessment instruments, ecologically valid indicators, multiple comparison groups, time of testing, classroom strategies, and educational measurement issues. Describes seven types of outcomes evaluation, all of…

Argues that home visiting and related services have been shaped and constrained by the tendency to use services as a substitute for adequate income and economic opportunity, by ambivalent attitudes toward poor people, and by a preoccupation with the effects of poverty on child rearing. Proposes basic principles of practice that should guide early…

Examined differential effectiveness of leader-led versus self-directed career and life planning workshops for 98 middle-aged and older adults. Found that participants improved on attitudinal and behavioral variables regardless of treatment condition, although participants in leader-led group had greater posttest employment research interview…

Examined Reciprocal Peer Tutoring (RPT) and parent involvement interventions on mathematics achievement of academically at-risk fourth and fifth graders (n=84). Found that students who received RPT plus parent involvement displayed higher levels of accurate mathematics computations than either RPT Only or control students and that students in RPT…