Research was focused on the consequences of enabling students to improve performance by allowing a retest on the same content. One of the major hypotheses of the study, that students in the optional retest condition would achieve higher test grades than those in the traditional test-once condition, was confirmed. (LBH)

A project is reported in which students consurrently enrolled in a course in psychological foundations and in student teaching received a concentrated consumer's course in systematic behavior management with emphasis on application. Performance objectives are described. (LBH)

Focusing its efforts on the improvements of the teacher-learning process in higher education, the Institute for Educational Technology at the University of Surrey engages in applied research and service activities including the development and evaluation of teaching and learning innovations, and the training of university teachers. Research and…

A summary of the thesis "Evaluation of teaching--an analysis of problems together with some empirical studies at university level" offers a model for evaluation work, and describes three groups of empirical studies: evaluations of courses, surveys of previous knowledge, and factors influencing satisfaction and achievement. (JMD)

At SUNY, the Educational Recording Library is responsible for the acquisition, duplication, and distribution of education recordings (non-book media) for university-wide use and for providing campuses with those services necessary to make effective use of the recordings. (JMD)

A synopsis of the development of education, particularly higher education, in Nigeria introduces a discussion of the need to make university education more relevant to the developmental needs of the country. Reorganization of universities and a different emphasis in research are among the problems to be faced. (JMD)

As a liberal education program, an interdisciplinary study of integrative topics encourages knowledge, clarifying judgments and broadening interests. At Lincoln College these values are reinforced with tutorials, panels, and projects to promote effective study habits and skills. (JMD)

An experiment in teaching mathematics to non-science, non-mathematics majors by two different methods, lecture and "open classroom," is reported. The primary findings of the study indicate that students learn equally well in either setting and that student personality characteristics may have a slight effect on individual gains. (JMD)

The role of the dissertation in the education of Ph.D. candidates is addressed. Objections to the dissertation requirement, including excessive time demands and the sterile effects on later research, are examined, and recommendations for changes in rationale and end-product requirements are made. A 17-item bibliography is provided. (JMD)

Discussed are the strengths a field-study approach brings to undergraduate education, a model for conceptualizing a full range of field settings in the community, business, and government, and sources of strain in developing and implementing a program of non-classroom-based learning. (JMD)

A model comprised of five stages of faculty development is described. Individual faculty are located along a continuum, beginning at a stage where knowledge is seen as an unambiguous entity and teaching as a simple presentation of facts, and progressing to a level of more complex attitudes. Validation for and implications of the model are…

Small group teaching, with four stages of student participation, individual work, work in pairs, work in small groups of 4-6 members, and reporting back to the whole group, is adapted to the lecture situation allowing the lecturer to intervene at each stage to direct progress toward previously-determined objectives. (JMD)

A three-phase training program prepares graduate students to work as teaching assistants for the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Marquette University. The program includes an orientation workshop that is described in detail, individual guidance sessions, and bimonthly group discussions. (JMD)

An annotated list of 12 books is intended for the new psychology teacher who may need immediate guidance, but some of the recommendations may be of help to all teachers. Six of the books are on teaching in general and six are on the teaching of psychology in particular. (J MD)

Andrews University's commitment to teacher improvement is evidenced by the availability of instructional materials and assistance in using them, and in its faculty development program that includes a new teacher seminar and a Committee on Instruction and Research. Faculty evaluation is the logical outcome of the program. (JMD)