A videotaped presentation was produced as a collaborative effort involving university professors, students, and field center faculty members. The following items are addressed: production development, the summative assessment checklist, program segments, product utilization, assessment steps and participant reactions. (Author)

Determines the relationship of undergraduate students' required vs elective rationale for course selection, and their expected course grade, to their ratings of instructors, courses, and examinations. Results indicate significant differences on the various course ratings comparing students with a required vs an elective rationale for course…

Concerned officials in many institutions in the South view significant increases in minority student enrollment as one solution to student desegregation. If success is to be achieved strategy must be based on a sensitivity to respond to social and cultural experiences of the minority service community. (Author/BEF)

Professional educators and business personnel should look to one another for help and guidance in an exchange of ideas and values and to generate dialogue and design activities that will lead to opportunities for innovation, creativity and cooperation. (Author/BEF)

Examined whether entering freshman female students arrive at college with conflicting expectations: their own, those of their parents, and those of male peers. Data from mailed questionnaires indicated such conflicting expectations exist for the women studied. They hope to achieve--but not too much. (Author)

Analysis of the data suggests that program characteristics such as length, stability, and analytic orientation appear to affect the predictive validity of admission criteria to doctoral programs. Also, high-ability older students in this sample were more likely to complete the doctorate than their younger peers. (Author)

There are multiple arguments for and against the policy of students judging the effectiveness of university teaching. The advantages of evaluative procedures are qualified by the susceptibility of data to misinterpretation. By representing support through rewards, student evaluation of instruction could be made amenable to every faculty. (Author)

It was hypothesized that attitude toward discipline is related to preference for principled reasoning in moral dilemmas. Results showed principled moral judgement was associated with humanistic-democratic ideology. Conventional moral judgement was associated with a custodial-authoritarian view of discipline. The relationship between teachers'…

This study sought to determine whether graduate school psychology students place more emphasis on professional skills or personality qualities, when they are asked to describe the essential characteristics of their most effective and ineffective teachers. A significant proportion of the total sample's responses emphasized personality qualities…

High school students who took, in a student teaching center, classes which were team taught by university, public school, and student teachers, were asked for their perceptions of the people with whom they worked, the activities in which they engaged, their attitudes, and achievement. Student perceptions of the center were favorable. (Author)

To determine the relationships among various measures of ability, achievement, and personality, data from 76 volunteer subjects were factor analyzed. The analysis yielded two factors, one representing a general intelligence factor and the other an achievement factor. No evidence was found that certain personality variables are related to…

Multi-textbook college courses demand the use of a systematic expository textbook study technique. As explained in this article, E.S.P. (Enlighten/Study/Preview) is designed to increase speed and ensure accuracy in comprehension by providing the student with continuous feedback of his or her understanding of the material. (Author)

Many older students are concerned with satisfying vocational objectives, while others search for personal fulfillment or information relating to civic concerns and economic problems. Special challenges now confront the higher education faculty as it responds to society's expectation that lifelong education will soon be available to all citizens.…

The differences between two groups of students (17 Blacks and 23 Whites) were examined on the basis of participation and nonparticipation in a special studies program designed primarily to meet the needs of minority and disadvantaged students. Participating students met with more academic success than nonparticipating, irrespective of race.…

Because considerable emphasis is being placed on increasing morale and performance of teachers, the writer set out to determine if a direct relation actually exists between the two variables. Results of the investigation show that there is a significant relationship between junior college teachers' teaching effectiveness ratings and their morale.…