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Ralston, Anthony – College Board Review, 1991
Within the next two decades, calculators will be standard tools in mathematics classrooms. They should be used regularly but carefully in classroom instruction and testing to allow use of realistic data and exploration of mathematical concepts, but not to allow finding the answer without understanding the question. (MSE)
Descriptors: Calculators, College Mathematics, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Janko, Edmund – College Board Review, 1987
The dilution of the high school curriculum in the last several decades results not from teachers' intellectual convictions, or lack of them, but from their belief in classroom survival. Student attitudes, not teacher attitudes, need to be changed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Expectation, Higher Education
Lewis, Florence C. – College Board Review, 1991
The charge that there is thought control and intimidation in the college classroom must be examined more closely. There are times when politics overtakes "correctness" on the campus, but it is more often the students intimidating the teachers, through choice of courses, than the other way around. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, College Students, Higher Education