Study showed that university students respond with greater interest to lecture titles that clearly indicate the nature of the ideas to be communicated rather than to those that contain the specialized expressions indigenous to academia. (RM)

Grade performances in a personalized instruction course are compared with those in traditionally-taught courses for students with good, average, and poor academic records. (Editor)

Describes effects on students of involvement in a social science research project. Students who participated in the project generally felt they had undergone a useful learning experience and would recommend a similar social science research course to fellow high school students. (Author/DB)

Outlines a distance education course in telecommunications offered through Brunel Technical College, Bristol, England. Objectives of the college, the sponsor, college staff, and students enrolled in the course are investigated together with problems, cost implications, and student and staff perceptions. Distance and evening students' performance…

A unit of study--"Attitudes and the Disabled: A Values Education Approach"--developed to help Canadian students develop positive attitudes toward the disabled is described and evaluated. Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders who studies the unit developed significantly more positive attitudes than other students. (RM)