Contends that student writing compositions and instructor feedback offer special benefits when rendered orally via audiocassette. Promotes a "reader-based" writing sensibility in students, who read their work onto cassette tape, and allows greater flexibility in grading and critiquing for instructors, who return the tape with detailed comments.…

Presents the "Teaching Journal" as a component of the Teaching Apprenticeship in Expository Writing course offered by Ithaca College. The professor mentor and the teaching apprentice write independently about their weekly classroom observations, opinions, questions, and concerns. This process offers apprentices teaching experience and fosters a…

Responds to the argument that college standards must be made tougher to, in turn, force high schools to improve. Argues that tougher standards would result in the elimination of developmental education and discusses the value of developmental programs. Includes excerpts from papers written by the author's students refuting the argument. (AJL)

Discusses the lack of opportunities for prospective college teachers to practice their teaching skills. Describes the Teacher's Apprentice program at New York's Ithaca College, providing experience for student teachers in a writing class. Reviews positive outcomes from the program in a developmental reading and writing course. (17 citations) (AJL)

Examines a proposal for new directions in research related to the content literacy training given to college developmental educators. Includes specific suggestions for long-term, collaborative research related to class size, types of tracking and testing, determining the audience receiving training, and changing definitions of text and literacy.…

Provides a discussion of classroom research theory and methods designed to introduce those unfamiliar with classroom research to its major issues. Describes Angelo and Cross's Classroom Assessment Techniques, providing guidelines for collecting information on classroom outcomes. Reviews current literature related to classroom research. (MAB)

Provides the second part of a discussion of classroom research theory and classroom assessment techniques. Describes the use of the "writing process" classroom assessment technique to determine student gains in writing and motivation awareness. Reviews the background to, rationale for, and conclusions drawn from the technique. (Part I is in…