Describes the Learning Behavior Dilemma, a developmental admissions model which evaluates students' level of intellectual development and their readiness for undertaking educational challenges. Discusses the importance of understanding the optimal match between students and their educational environment. (JAC)

Logic, basic skills and imagination are the bricks and mortar of a student "Architects' Studio". (Editor)

This document discusses a seminar in which participants focused on the enculturation of boys into American society, particularly the ways in which violence tends to be connected to boys. Three teams from three different school districts, a team from the Board of Cooperative Educational Services, and a team from a college teacher preparation…

Article presented guidelines for a program of environmental education and discussed attitudes toward the biophysical atmosphere. (Author/RK)

Provides an overview of the school library media specialist's role in working with the gifted student. The media specialist's extended role is also described in terms of the content, process, output, and evaluation sections of Tennant's model; and the knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation categories of Bloom's…

Describes Inter-Association Leadership Project's model for conceptualizing and designing a comprehensive college student leadership program. Outlines implementation considerations and curriculum topics. Cites successful leadership development programs across United States. (Author/CM)

Expanding developmental advising through life roles offers the opportunity for advising to realize its potential as a developmental and integrating force in higher education. A model for moving into these life roles and ideas for academic advisors to use in incorporating leisure and leadership perspectives into their advising are presented.…

Presents guidelines for creating process models for implementation of student development theory in practice. Describes results of workshop in which professionals created process models for translation of specific theory of their choosing into application in practical circumstances. Includes sample process model created using the guidelines.…

Describes an alternative method of academic advising, as opposed to the traditional faculty-student model. The objective of the counseling liaison model is to increase the retention and graduation rates of students through linking counseling intervention strategies with developmental academic advising. (Contains 12 references.) (GCP)

Without adequate reading comprehension, writing proficiency, math competency, and critical thinking skills, students pursuing higher education are vulnerable to failure. An environmental Science course built around academic wholism is the focus of a summer program designed to bridge the gap between high school and college. Students self-reflect…

Theories concerning dimensions and dynamics of college student development and theories about how colleges exert influence on student change are reviewed. The models deal principally with growth among traditional undergraduate students. The theories of Chickering, Perry, Kohlberg, and Loevinger address the nature, structure, and processes the…

In Washington, academic and building trades skills are conjoined for high school students in the Tacoma Interdisciplinary Program (Editor)

The author maintains that student personnel work must give up its isolated position in the college community and begin to integrate with other departments. This paper presents the author's Three-Year Program for student development with a detailed account of programming for Year I. It includes such topics as campus life-career education and…

Each child is unique and individual differences should be recognized and met, but to put individual diagnosis and prescription into a realistic perspective, some generally descriptive ground rules are necessary. Four models describing four distinctily different types of behavior applying to children in normal as well as exceptional learning…

The author looks at a major aim of education, for which there are no standardized achievement tests. She proposes a model for teachers to work on. (Editor)