Suggests methods for teaching research skills at the university level. A variety of ways exist to add creativity and student centered activities to the curriculum. Students may have choices in their input data or in defining the problem then using a constrained method of analysis. (Author/KC)

The often-ignored issue of religious cults is one that teachers ought to address in the classroom, both as a method for teaching research skills and out of a responsibility for their students' welfare. (LH)

Methods for encouraging thoughtful use of encyclopedias in elementary school report writing are suggested. (LH)

Describes an assignment in which students locate, read, assess, and discuss critical articles about the works of literature they are studying. Points to many benefits of the assignment, including its positive effects on students' library research skills. (TJ)

Recommends assigning a short research essay as a productive alternative to the large research project in the freshman writing class. (JL)

Suggests how to reduce student passivity in large-enrollment college level classes by directing students to participate in a social survey which involves research replication. (Author/DB)

Outlines a research methods course which stresses experiential learning through a variety of projects in which students learn the major aspects of experimentation. An in-class study, research project, proposal, and class analysis are discussed. (KC)

Describes projects for students in a journalism class, including researching journalism history, interviewing their parents, critiquing exchange newspapers, writing a term paper about journalism, working with outside agencies to plan a charity project, and publishing such school-related publications as football programs and play programs. (GT)

Describes three research report projects for second graders used in the science and social studies curriculum. Outlines class discussion strategies, sequential stages, use of notecards, encyclopedias, and other sources (including parents) for researching animal topics, biography projects, and studies of a farm. (JG)

Recommends ways teachers can help students write better research papers. (JL)

The paper describes a professor's use of student "research journals" as a means to encourage students to follow proper research methodology in developing a term paper. Students were required to make a dated entry whenever research work was done including topic selection and narrowing, preliminary background reading, aids consulted, online…

Describes the techniques used in an English methods class to make informal researchers of the in-service teachers attending the class. (DD)

Presents a protocol to teach students research skills in the technology/information age developed by one Westchester County, New York, school district. The district determined that research skills must be modeled and taught, and research skills must be taught developmentally, beginning in the elementary grades. The paper breaks the district's…

Discusses an exercise that uses science fiction to generate the interest needed to help inexperienced writers overcome their fear of research and build their research skills. (JL)

Argues that the conventional method of teaching the generic research paper as a separately designated activity is ineffective and misleads students as to the nature of genuine research. (JL)