Describes the importance of research programs and their implementation problems when students' complete education and well-being are considered as the primary concern in this educational system. (CC)

Describes a one-semester biology course for nonmajors which explores the interdisciplinary potential of psychology, anthropology, history, literature, philosophy, and religion. Satisfactory results in the 1970 tryout with 126 college students are identified. (CC)

Describes innovative programs carried out in four institutions, six programs deal with testing techniques and teaching methods in mathematics and science courses with the remaining one being concerned with relationships of man's life in a technological society to natural and cultural forces. (CC)

Includes summaries of six articles dealing with engineering education, population management, blood sampling, international pollution control, environmental quality index, and scientific phases in political science. (CC)

Describes a comparison made between 93 women in a self-paced program and 68 women students in lecture classes. Concludes that self-paced programs are impartially applicable to all students regardless of prior achievement and ability. (CC)

Describes the major points of Senate Bill S-32. Indicates that the new directions for federally supported research and development have important implications for educational programs. (CC)

Describes the development of students' images of scientists from high school through college in Israel, and indicates the presence of significant discrepancies between the images held by college students and by scientists themselves as measured by the Test On Understanding Science (TOUS) form W. (CC)

Describes the development of a multi-topic, individually-paced, upper-level seminar on the solar system carried out primarily for nonscience majors in the spring and fall semesters of 1972. Also discusses the course objectives and related evaluation instruments. (CC)

Describes a one-semester junior course with emphases placed on students' use of instructions designed by their peers in doing laboratory exercises, and indicates the feasibility of such a plan to a rather small range of group sizes. (CC)

Describes reasons for radically reducing topics usually included in freshman chemistry courses, and stresses historical, philosophical, and sociological aspects in the course presentation. (CC)