Analysis of data from a population of 7,747 upper division university students has shown that the selection of majors in various sequence length categories is disproportionate to the number of programs in each category. The proportion of transfer students selecting majors with longer sequences was significantly smaller than native students.…

This study compared the impacts of small-group instruction and lecture demonstration teaching on achievement and attitudes toward mathematics. Results indicated that small-group instruction was superior to the lecture method in producing achievement in remedial mathematics. (SD)

The article's major thesis is to reduce formal education and the award of academic credentials by one full step or level in the educational ladder to avoid the unwholesome situation of competence vs. credential. A current need is to revise the content of baccalaureate programs in many allied health specialties. (Author/NH)

This report compares new with traditional teaching techniques. A chemistry course, taught by one instructor using two methods, was examined for two quarters. The effects of the two treatment variables, student variables, and interactions among them were tested. The students were randomly assigned to a closed-circuit TV (CCTV) group and a…

This document is intended to help practitioners plan and implement activities for observance of Career Development Month in Illinois. Part 1 examines the following topics: the definitions of career development and education-to-careers; the rationale for devoting a month to career development; a career framework; and suggested Career Development…

The author discusses a method of using standardized tests in a multivariate statistical framework for making student placement decisions. (RWP)

Advocates teachers' belief in students' ability to achieve writing success, rather than assuming failure that results in self-fulfilling prophecy. (HTH)

The implementation of cooperative education programs involves both costs and benefits for students, employers, educational institutions, and the public. Success will be encouraged by methods which increase potential benefits and reduce costs; but reducing costs to particular constituencies through subsidy implies costs to others in society. The…

A management team should consist of from three to seven members, including a chief negotiator, a labor attorney, a contract language specialist, and a recorder. The chief negotiator should establish and maintain a relationship among the members of the team in which the responsibilities of each is clearly limited and understood by all involved.…

Argues that rigorous assessment in the classroom is the only way to reduce outside interference in the assessment process. Sees instructors as poorly prepared to assume assessment roles, recommending an increased reliance on common examinations written by subject discipline experts. (DMM)

The male academic, admitting that women are intellectually formidable, nonetheless feels women academics' claims to intellectual parity are fundamentally unsound. (DD)

This report investigates the predictive ability of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank's Academic Achievement Scale in identifying patterns of interest associated with good scholarship. Thirty-six males were randomly selected. Scores on the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, the Washington Grade Prediction tests, high school ranks and performance…

Poems, of a wide variety, which are carefully selected to serve as springboards for discussion for low ability, lower-middle-class high school students can aid in developing individual student taste and interest in poetry. Viewing poetic devices within specific poems (rather than as isolated phenomena), encouraging student attempts at writing…

Presents a study that analyzes four common grading systems used to assess the performance of 159 students in a business statistics course. Indicates that the accuracy of grades increases with the number of grade categories employed. Contains three data tables and 17 references. (JDI)

Use of dialect literature increases student awareness of dialect features and reduces the occurrence of such features in student writing.