Various accounting professional organizations, such as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants, have issued repeated calls for change in accounting education. However, few groups have consulted accounting academics about the purpose, structure, or content of the accounting curriculum. In…

This paper addresses the dilemmas encountered by two secondary science education instructors designing a course for preservice elementary teachers. Taking into consideration past experiences of teaching education and science courses in general and with preservice elementary teachers in particular and recommendations from state and national…

THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE ARTICULATION COMMITTEE OF THORNTON, ILLINOIS, REPORTED TO THE TOWNSHIP STEERING COMMITTEE UPON THE SPECIFICS FOR BUILDING LANGUAGE PROGRAMS FROM THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL THROUGH JUNIOR COLLEGE. THE REPORT COVERS CONTINUITY OF A CHOSEN LANGUAGE, TEACHING METHODS, EVALUATION, COOPERATION WITH OTHER CURRICULUM AREAS,…

A plea for meticulous planning in establishing an office training course. (Editor)

Offers a step-by-step guide to course design and development. Includes information on design basics, underlying objectives, course description, evaluation, standards, recordkeeping, and administration. (JOW)

The basic steps of content analysis are: (1) selecting the questions to be asked about course objectives, (2) developing the categories under each question, (3) designing a tabulation card for each objective, (4) coding the objectives, and (5) tabulation of responses. (MW)

A critique of the Schools Council Humanities program discusses the lack of clarification of what the stated achievements of understanding, discrimination, and judgement in the human field really consist; what they logically entail, and what methodologies are consistent with them. (JH)

A plan to evaluate a college-orientation course required of new freshmen at Mt. San Antonio College was developed. It was designed to help students adjust to college, evaluate their interests and abilities, determine realistic vocational goals, and develop effective educational plans. Opportunities for close personal relationships between students…

Article described a course designed to bring Europeans into closer contact with one another thereby developing greater understanding and sympathy with neighboring countries. (RK)

Starting from the belief that objective scholarship is a necessary requisite in a black studies rationale, the author goes on to point out the complexities in attaining that objectivity. Teacher qualifications and student participation in planning are briefly discussed. (JB)

States that because it is very difficult to determine what the objectives of business education are, much of business education can achieve little in terms of those objectives and can sometimes do harm. Advises a change in emphasis in order to advance the relevance and content of business education. (NRJ)

Describes the Environmental Education Network Project sponsored by the Environment and Consumer Protection Service of the Commission of European Communities. (HM)