MIS curricula in business schools are challenged to provide MIS courses that give students a strong practical understanding of the basic technologies, while also providing enough hands-on experience to solve real life problems. As an experimental capstone MIS course, the authors developed a cluster-computing project to expose business students to…

AN EXPERIMENTAL, COLLEGE-LEVEL, ELEMENTARY FRENCH COURSE WAS ORGANIZED, IMPLEMENTED, AND EVALUATED. THE COURSE WAS APPROXIMATELY EQUIVALENT TO TWO ELEMENTARY AND TWO INTERMEDIATE SEQUENCES IN THE CONVENTIONAL PATTERN, ALLOWING 15 CREDIT HOURS FOR AN AVERAGE WORKING PERIOD OF THREE ACADEMIC SEMESTERS. THE EMPHASIS OF THE COURSE WAS ON INTENSIVE…

AN EXPERIMENTAL ELEMENTARY FRENCH COURSE WAS ESTABLISHED AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL AND EVALUATED ON ITS PEDAGOGICAL EFFICIENCY, ADMINISTRATIVE FEASIBILITY, AND ACHIEVEMENT-MOTIVATIONAL CAPABILITY. THE COURSE FEATURED INTENSIVE CONTACT WITH LINGUISTICS, SELF-INSTRUCTION, AND SELF-PACING. (FOR DETAILS ON THE COURSE ORGANIZATION, SEE ED 010 465, A…

THIS EXTENSIVE TWO-VOLUME REPORT DESCRIBES THE IMPACT OF A CURRICULUM UNIT ON THE AMERICAN NEGRO WHICH WAS PRESENTED TO NEGRO AND WHITE PUPILS IN 19 INTEGRATED FOURTH-GRADE CLASSROOMS IN THE GARY, INDIANA, PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE EXPERIMENTAL UNIT WAS NOT TAUGHT TO A CONTROL GROUP OF SEVEN FOURTH-GRADE CLASSES. SINCE AN ADDITIONAL OBJECTIVE OF THE…