Northeast Missouri State University has developed a way of knowing its effectiveness through a method of assessment that focuses on the value added to the student's knowledge and personality. Competency testing and attitudinal assessment are used. The effects on curriculum and instruction are outlined. (MLW)

A comparison of the actual final grade distribution with what the grade distributions would have been had only the true/false components or the short-answer components been used is presented. The responses to a course evaluation survey that asked students to compare the two types of questions are summarized. (MLW)

A teaching workshop for faculty from member liberal arts colleges in the Central Pennsylvania Consortium is reported. Presentations of the William Perry scheme of student intellectual and moral development are described. (MLW)

Central features of "write-to-learn" are discussed and the results of a faculty workshop that aimed to acquaint faculty members in the Pennsylvania State University system with the method are presented. (MLW)

Ways in which instructional development activities can be transformed into eagerly awaited opportunities for personal and institutional growth are discussed. The teaching workshop conducted by an expert from another campus is discussed. (MLW)

The use of one specific ego-enhancing hypnotic approach, a technique that employs a conditioned "trigger," the clenched fist, to facilitate the changing of troublesome emotional states, is described. Forty first-year university students were the subjects of the study. (MLW)

A good review session should prepare students for an exam: (1) academically, through a planned, comprehensive approach to the material; (2) physically, by encouraging them to relax; and (3) emotionally, because of the reassurance and perspective provided by the instructor. (MLW)

A model that integrates the systematic observation of student and teacher behaviors with an analysis of student achievement is presented. It assesses student learning and time use for a particular lesson and provides the instructor with immediate feedback that documents teaching effectiveness. (MLW)

Four teaching techniques were used to enhance conceptual learning and to increase student performance in a course in physical-chemical principles at the School of Pharmacy of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. One of the techniques, "concept overview," is described. (MLW)

Takahiro Sato, a Japanese engineer, has developed a method to study the composition of an objective test by finding out how individual students are responding to the test's items and by summarizing this information in a single index. The Student-Problem Chart is discussed. (MLW)

Seven reasons for reading pedagogical materials to improve instruction are outlined, advice on how the reading can be used most effectively is given, and appropriate readings are recommended. (MSE)

Hampshire College offers a vigorous bibliographic instruction program as a principal means for introducing undergraduate students to library use. Its major purpose is to teach library research strategies: how to proceed from an idea to a useful bibliography and acquire the needed materials. (Author/MSE)

The most appropriate literature for study in general education is world literature from antiquity to the present, not limited to English-language works but expanded to include translated readings concerning basic moral and political issues. (MSE)

Although the knowledge and content of the sciences and humanities differ, the differences are superficial and a basic similarity is often overlooked. The disciplines use common intellectual or methodological principles for generating ideas and for justifying and defending conclusions. (MSE)

A discussion of computer integration in the college curriculum describes its impact on courses and classroom interaction, looks at levels of computer integration, and examines strategies for developing such a course. It is proposed that, although computer integration is inevitable, it will cause a turbulent transition period for classroom…