Describes a system employed at Brigham Young University's Hawaii Campus in which student compositions are evaluated by several faculty members to determine whether they meet specified minimal writing standards. (DD)

This curriculum module is designed to provide potential users with access to pedagogic techniques and scholarly works on the subject of social stratification in contemporary Asian societies that can be effectively integrated into appropriate sociology and other relevant courses. First, a set of goals and learning objectives is presented in an…

A report presented to the ADE in New York on 26 December 1972. (RB)

This essay examines the ways in which British literature, as a discipline, has been influenced by feminist scholarship and research into the areas of gender and sexuality. It reports that feminist literary criticism took definitive shape in the late 1960s as part of the women's liberation movement, and that a central concern of this first…

Provides an annotated bibliography of ERIC documents on strategic management, with emphasis on institutional responses to change, the role of the administrator in strategic management, budgeting and financial management, and institutional planning. (DMM)

A study is reported in which students' final exam grades were correlated with the number of hours they spent getting help in a mathematics laboratory. Results showed that the students' final exam grade was benefited by the use of the math lab. (DT)

This volume is a collection of papers focused on a single theme, cooperative learning, written by classroom teachers of varying experience levels. This book introduces cooperative learning and gives examples of cooperative learning activities, units, and systems created by teachers in Japan, The United States, and Canada, who are currently using…

Author uses the expression advanced education" in order to obliterate the present boundary lines between undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral, and adult or continuing education. (Author/MB)

Shows how a significant literary question of preindustrial Europe--What causes one person to listen to another?--is still of major importance in a nuclear age. (MM)

Takes issue with the opinions of K. Patricia Cross, as expressed in her article "Old Practices and New Purposes" (EJ 216 532), pointing to the positive effects of grading, group teaching, and a standard time-frame. (AYC)

Discusses the role of the Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). In light of the gap in workforce skills constraining economic growth, urges ongoing dialogue between schools and businesses, and emphasizes the need for more appropriate continuing education programs for workers. Cites examples of successful programs.…

This report presents preliminary statistics on program completions in accredited institutions of higher education in the United States during academic year 1986-87. The tabular summaries presented in the report are based on data collected through the annual survey of completions which is part of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.…

Suggests where the traditional marking and grading procedures used in freshman composition classes fall short and offers specific means for improving these procedures and the quality of the teaching and learning. (MB)

Describes the community-based research approach of Barbara Bowman, a non-Indian studying psychological issues at Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. Reviews tribal-researcher relations at the reservation and discusses tribal requirements for research, including approval of the study, tribal ownership of the data, and formal presentations of…

Version of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Professors of Higher Education on March 5, 1972, in Chicago, Illinois. (DS)