Explains a program specifically designed to help academically underprepared students who are seeking careers in health professions. Describes course content, traditional and nontraditional teaching methods used, and evaluation procedures. States that student performance significantly improved. (RT)

Presents information on student interest, teaching problems, and learning outcomes regarding the use of cadavers as a teaching tool. Provides a list of Illinois Community Colleges using cadavers and a student questionnaire. (RT)

Describes an audiovisual instructional system designed to link a university's two main campuses with its off-campus centers. The purpose of the link was to provide a wider array of courses taught by full-time faculty. Explains preparation, organization, teaching requirements, and problems. (RT)

Explains a scheme for grading student performance which stresses skills, technique, decision making, and notebook entries. Describes grading system and potential pitfalls. (RT)

Describes laboratory-oriented software programs that are short, time-saving, eliminate computational errors, and not found in public domain courseware. Program availability for IBM and Apple microcomputers is included. (RT)

Describes a course provided for health profession-oriented students. Uses a chemical basis to explain the physiology of drug action while considering appropriate patient care. Outlines course content and testing procedures. (Author)

Describes the contents of a book entitled The Care and Feeding of Ideas: A Guide to Encouraging Creativity which considers the thinking process, why skills need to be developed, and how students use or should use these thinking skills. (RT)

Describes a demonstration that shows the absorption spectrum of chlorophyll. Uses an overhead projector, a solution of chlorophyll, and a diffraction grating. (RT)

Describes a demonstration which allows students to witness a type of continuous spectrum and an absorption spectrum. Provides a diagram and explanation for the construction of an absorption box. (RT)

Discusses the importance of implementing new approaches in science teaching which will elevate citizen concerns to science-related issues confronting society. Outlines a biology application course designed to counteract current problems in this area. (RT)

Describes an ecology course which provides students with an opportunity to observe aquatic and terrestrial life in the Bahamas. States that students learn scientific methodology by measuring physical and chemical aspects of the island habitats. Provides information on the island, course description and objectives, transportation, facilities, and…

Describes the experience of an author who initiated a prison education program to foster self-worth and personal pride through learning. Explains the teaching program, security and classroom instruction, and inmate-student characteristics. (RT)

Describes some of the teaching techniques found to be effective for educating students and combatting scientific illiteracy. Presents instructional methods developed for implementing learner-oriented educational philosophies and interactive teaching strategies. (RT)

Describes how to organize a student-directed laboratory investigation which is based on amphibian metamorphosis, lasts for nearly a term, and involves extensive group effort. Explains the assignment, student response and opinion, formal paper, and instructor responsibilities. (RT)

Explains the significance of the mole as a unit of measure by showing the relationship between physical quantities and their mathematical representations. Offers a summary of the principles of metrology that make creation of physical quantities and units seem reasonable. A table of base physical quantities and units is included. (RT)