Evaluates the use of actual patients in a required clinical applications course at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. Patients discuss their illness and how it affects their lives with the first-year students. On 12 of 13 items, students scored significantly higher on an attitude survey following the first patient presentation than…

Evaluated the Education Participation Scale (EPS) in determining motivational orientations of nontraditional doctor of pharmacy students (n=17) compared to continuing education pharmacists (n=83). Nontraditional pharmacy students were significantly different from the continuing education pharmacists on the "professional advancement" and…

Surveyed 55 U.S. pharmacy colleges concerning pediatric didactic content, reading assignments, clerkships, and time dedicated to pediatric pharmacy in entry-level doctor of pharmacy programs. An average of 16.7 hours was devoted to pediatric content in required courses with highly variable content. Fifty programs offered pediatric clerkships and…

Describes an elective six-week advanced practice experience for PharmD students and a required module for graduate students designed to prepare students for teaching roles. Course and rotation evaluations have been positive. Also includes perspectives of two students who tell how they applied the principles learned in roles of graduate teaching…

Summarizes the growth of women faculty at schools and colleges of pharmacy in the twentieth century. Notes such early leaders as Zada Cooper and Nellie Wakeman. Also provides data from surveys of women pharmacy faculty in 1976-77, 1983-84, 1992-93, and 1996-97. (DB)

Describes an approach to problem-based learning (PBL) in the pharmacy curriculum that utilizes electronic communications to reduce the personnel costs associated with PBL. Comparison with convention PBL found substantial reduction in personnel time. Discusses application as a supplement to didactic instruction and the method's feasibility for both…

Reports on data from pharmaceutical students' experiential training based on paired baseline and end-of-rotation short-answer tests of 86 students over a 10-year period. Significant improvements from baseline to end-of-rotation were found. Results suggest the value of the written examination as an interactive assessment instrument, but not as a…

Studies how the organization of teachers' work affects students in their early years of high school. Results from 11,692 students and 9,904 teachers show significant achievement gains in schools where teachers take collective responsibility for students' academic success or failure rather than blaming students for their own failure. Achievement…

Presents a critical review of Paul Theobald's work, "Call School: Rural Education in the Middle West to 1918." The author discusses Theobald's observations on class formation and migration; his assessment of school boards, teachers, and teaching methods; and his revisionist reading of the Country Life Movement and rural education at the turn of…

Presents a critical review of Margaret J. Marshall's work, "Contesting Cultural Rhetorics: Public Discourse and Education, 1890-1900." The author discusses Marshall's comparison and examination of historical nineteenth-century texts about education. The analysis suggests the book does not adequately advance knowledge about public conceptions of…

Explores educational reform at the turn of the century, documenting the influence of European educational thought and practice on the work of John Dewey and the influence of Dewey's ideas on education in Turkey, Russia, and the Netherlands. A context-specific approach to discussions of Progressivism is required. (SLD)

Major shifts in policy have marked the attitude toward homework in U.S. educational history. This discussion focuses on the effort to abolish homework waged by Progressive educational experts in the early 20th century. Health was the primary argument against homework in the years before World War I. (SLD)

Using a macrosociological theory of education, this article explores the opportunities to transfer from community college to baccalaureate granting schools in the 48 contiguous states. The structure of community colleges is not uniform across the states, and only a few have coordinated community college programs carefully to facilitate transfer.…

Develops a model of progressive school reform based on recent work in institutionalist theory. The authors present findings from preliminary empirical tests of the model, which provide strong support for an institutionalist account and considerably weaker support for political explanations of reform. (GR)

Presents a vision of authentic academic achievement and specific standards for pedagogy and student performance that are consistent with active learning or constructivist perspectives. The restructured and authentic pedagogy is based on standards of intellectual quality rather than teaching techniques or processes as the central target of…