This paper reports on implementing learning plans at an Australian university and their perceived use in supporting doctoral candidates' professional and academic development. The implementation of individualised learning plans for doctoral candidates was the outcome of university-wide discussions regarding coursework in the PhD. Based on a review…

Lab components of undergraduate science courses typically have students complete highly directed cookbook-like laboratory activities. These experiences rarely engage students in a meaningful manner and do not accurately convey what the work of science entails. With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), we have created more…

The WAC director, composition director, director of Institutional Assessment (OIA), and WAC/OIA liaison describe the programmatic "needs" and "wants" they balanced in the plan they collaboratively designed to respond to a state mandate for "value-added" writing assessment. To satisfy this mandate, as they explain,…

This paper reports the results of a ten-year effort to establish ethics as a learning objective for all business students, to assess the effectiveness in achieving that learning objective and to incorporate ethical conduct as a part of the school's organizational culture. First, it addresses the importance of ethics instruction for all business…

Discussed the process of planning a program of instruction that concerned itself with student attitudes toward and responses to music and the development of their music skills. (Author/RK)

Well-developed lesson plans form the basis of successful training sessions. Each lesson plan has two parts: a cover sheet and a lesson outline. Cover sheets include a variety of information used when an instructor drafts a lesson outline and prepares to conduct a training session. Sections are: course, unit, and lesson titles; presentation time;…

An outline of the educational technology approach to defining a training problem and developing a suitable learning system with the use of audiovisual equipment. (BP)

The project staff developed and evaluated nine instruction guides and tests, evaluated an innovative approach, conducted inservice staff education, constructed and refined pre and post-tests for all grades in five unified school districts. (Author)

This paper concerns itself with a diverse set of applications of the Operationalization of Fuzzy Concepts (OFC) procedure -- a systematic method for breaking a fuzzy statement of intent, a goal, or a fuzzy concept, into observable, measurable components. The paper assumes that the reader has some prior familiarity with the technique. The…

This publication is a curriculum guide intended to help implement coordinated K-12 science programs by serving as a framework of reference. The performance objectives that should be developed by students who study science are written in general terms and constitute the heart of the volume. The lists of performance objectives include the processes…

Author attempts to show the Philadelphia bilingual program, Let's Be Amigos, funded under Title VII, was indeed changed as the program staff came to grips with the problem of building-in accountability. (Author/CB)

Presented is a dissertation that demonstrates the importance of health education in the satisfactory accomplishment of the tasks of an Environmental Health Officer (EHO) or others similarly engaged in the same field. The rationale supporting the argument for the inclusion of a course of health education in the training program of environmentally…

Social studies teachers can help students develop self- and career awareness by infusing career education into the social studies curriculum. The infusion method of career education is preferred since it can make the content of lessons more relevant for students. In addition, infusion of career education is particularly appropriate in social…