Explains a computer exam format used with pharmacy students in a clinical biochemistry laboratory course. Student attitudes were assessed. Students felt that their final grade reflected their comprehension, exam pratical facilitated learning, exam format fostered retention and the questions were appropriate. (GS)

Reports on a study which attempts to evaluate the extent to which students can learn from a film and to show some ways in which the learning process can be improved. (Author/GS)

Discusses the hierarchy of awareness levels through which a learner may pass, and emphasizes that science teachers, particularly at the college level, should attempt to use teaching methods that are compatible with the awareness of students. (JR)

Describes a semester-long field trip in which 26 students of the University of Colorado studied the geology of the western United States. Only four of the participating students were geology majors. (JR)

The author discusses some of the human, psychological, and educational problems that he has encountered in introducing humanistic teaching to his college classes as an alternative to conventional education. (JR)

Presents reasons for accepting alternative modes of education that might help students to escape perceptual traps and limitations to human potential and growth. (JR)

Discusses some of the alternative approaches adopted by the Experimental College-Earth Science Teacher Project at Minot State College in an attempt to attract general education students and transmit the excitement and challenge of science to non-majors. (JR)

Describes an experiment designed to provide the opportunity for studying some of the parameters affecting the stability of Vitamin C in various environments, and to acquaint the student with an experimental procedure for studying simple reaction kinetics and the calculations of specific rate constants. (Author/JR)

Deals with some of the findings regarding "understanding of science" obtained within the framework of the Israeli Biological Sciences Curriculum Study-adaptation project. Identifies some of the difficulties associated with assessing student achievement in understanding the nature of science. (JR)

Describes the structure and content of a multidisciplinary environmental science course for non-science majors offered at Southern Illinois University. (JR)

Provides a listing of the Reports of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and reviews a number of these reports that should be of interest to college teachers. (JR)