Explains how mini-courses, chosen, developed and taught by graduate teaching assistants have helped in providing practical teaching experience to the graduate students involved. (GA)

Describes the objectives, the procedures, and the evaluation involved in a personalized system of instruction (PSI) that has been introduced, as an option and as an alternative, in teaching a general physics course at Purdue University. (GA)

Describes a study of the clerkship in a department of pediatrics to generate data for individual instructors to help them improve or modify their instructional methodology if they so desire. (GA)

Explains the goals behind establishing the Commission on the Role of Professions in Society at The Ohio State University. Describes three noncredit graduated courses related to those goals on ethical issues, health care, and changing societal values. (GA)

Provides an introduction to cognitive, learning, and teaching styles and their educational use by describing two instruments used for cognitive style mapping the Oakland and Canfield approaches. (Author/GA)

Describes a graduate research program, its academic structure and educational philosophy. The program deals in mechanical and manufacturing system design problems. It was designed to reestablish cooperation as well as interaction between university and industry. (GA)

Describes the requirements of a course entitled "Technical Reporting," offered for seniors in the Civil Engineering Department, and covers a variety of techniques in report writing and editing. (GA)

This article reports on research instruments administered to junior high school students from Australia, Ohio, and Tennessee studying student responses to descriptions of selected teacher behaviors relating to teacher clarity. Two primary and two secondary factors that relate to teacher clarity are identified. (JMF)

A test of 3,602 undergraduate students demonstrated that those with low apprehension about writing perform better on tests of writing skills including grammar, mechanics, and larger concerns in writing skills than those with high apprehension. (JMF)

Reports on a comparison of the performances of over-achievers, achievers, and under-achievers in mathematics on measures of general anxiety, test anxiety, and mathematics anxiety. The results confirm the hypothesis that the measure of mathematics-specific anxiety differentiates the under-achieving group from the other two groups more strongly than…

A survey of college students regarding course evaluation forms reveals that students feel that while rating forms provide an effective method of evaluation, the results are ignored by many teachers. Students feel that teachers do not change their behavior as a result of weaknesses identified by the students. (JMF)

Faculty members in Israel who had previously agreed to have results of student evaluations included in their files were rated more highly by the students than those who decided against it. (JMF)

A survey of client-systems in a medium-sized public school district is reported with emphasis on how data on perceptions and needs can be gathered. The study shows how the data were used to influence policy decisions and clearly defines the obligations of decision makers to be better informed and responsive to the public sector. (JMF)

The extent to which students perform differently on recall, low-inference, and high-inference items on a reading comprehension test is explored in this research. Results indicate a significant difference between questions asking for recall and inference comprehension. (JMF)

The use of directive cues to facilitate recall and clustering of verbal materials in good and poor readers is investigated. Overall results indicate strong and positive effects of directive cues on the subjects' recall and organization of memory, and indicate that poor readers are unadaptive learners who appear to have a performance deficit,…