The amount of learning will be primarily affected by the quality of the student's questioning. If the student is passive, the internship will become only a part-time job or a training experience. But if the student is an active, constructive questioner, he/she will be participating in the central mission of higher education. (LRA)

A National Council on Social Work Education project to develop, test, and evaluate models for continuing education in five social work education programs is described. Its aim is to demonstrate how the education and practice systems can work together, and to focus on mental health care delivery system issues as a whole. Five pilot projects in…

A major problem in assessing off-campus experiential learning is the need to structure the learning process and document the learning outcomes. This report describes the procedure developed by the University of California at Los Angeles, that logically analyzes the learning that is taking place and therefore helps to shape and improve subsequent…

This paper begins by describing the changing needs in the education of today's information technology (IT) professional. It presents a theoretical framework for using an experiential learning approach in the context of professional education in IT and information management and describes an instructional model that augments the principles of…

The concept of lifelong learning is generally defined as the expansion of formal and informal education from the relatively exclusive life stage of youth and early adulthood. This presentation has two stated purposes: (1) to demonstrate that the success of current proposals for lifelong learning will be highly dependent on their integration with…

This bulletin is the third in a series of annual publications issued by the Cooperative Research Program of the Office of Education. Its purpose is to provide practitioners, researchers, and others interested in education with information concerning research projects that are being supported under the Cooperative Research Program. A brief…

This bulletin, the sixth in a series, includes brief descriptions of research projects initiated under the Cooperative Research Program during fiscal year 1962, in 6 key areas: (1) Curriculum and instruction; (2) Characteristics of learners; (3) Special education; (4) counseling and guidance; (5) Sociology of education; and (6) Administration and…

This bulletin, the fourth in an annual series, presents a brief description of research projects that have been initiated with support from the Cooperative Research Program of the U.S. Office of Education. Most of the projects were contracted in fiscal year 1960. However, descriptions of projects which were recommended for support in May 1960 but…