Both faculty and students need guidance so that problems in the use of computer assisted instruction (CAI) are minimized and benefits are maximized. To introduce new or unfamiliar faculty to CAI, it would be beneficial to hold a seminar where the novices in computer use could learn from staff members who had already taught computer-assisted…

The Registration Involving Parents Program was instituted at Hill City High School, Kansas to: (1) keep parents informed of academic goals of students; (2) allow teachers to be more directly involved in the goal-setting of students; (3) reduce class schedule changes after the beginning of the school year; (4) force students to justify choices and…

Current methods for library instruction in academic libraries include audiovisual materials, programmed learning, self-paced workbooks, and course-related instruction. This document consists of reports on instructional programs involving these methods at five college and university libraries. The Concord College Library's program, "A…

Describes a videotape produced by the Cross Cultural Communication Centre for Making Changes and orientation program for immigrant women which focuses on career planning, information retrieval, job search skills, and assertiveness training. Discusses the techniques used through the various stages of the program with particular emphasis on…

Guidelines for conducting and facilitating a workshop designed as an orientation for both beginning and experienced adjunct faculty at community colleges are presented in this instructor's manual. The manual contains the following 11 sections, each defining an objective or activity to be undertaken during the workshop, and providing…

Presented in this document is a module developed at Northern Illinois University as an optional bibliographic instruction tool to be used in the library unit of an introductory-level educational research course. This approach allows each student to hunt through the library, locate various commonly used educational resources, and use each resource…

The Michigan State University Museum used an interactive videodisc (IVD) as an introduction to a special exhibit, "Birds in Trouble in Michigan." The hardware components included a videodisc player, a microcomputer, a video monitor, and a mouse. Software included a HyperCard program and the videodisc "Audubon Society's VideoGuide to…

This bibliography lists resources for the technical writing teacher, classified according to the following categories: professional organizations and periodicals concerned with technical writing and with such related areas as business communication and basic composition; conferences, meetings, and institutes on technical writing, held in 1975,…

Library use instruction is seen by most librarians in Britain and the United States to be an essential component of an academic library's overall operation, with the expressed or implied aim of enabling students to achieve maximum utilization of library resources and services. Having passed through a long history of cyclical popularity dating back…

Institutions of higher education spend considerable resources in the recruiting, screening, and hiring processes, yet often pay little attention to acclimating new professionals to their surroundings. This document presents a step-by-step outline of how to orient new employees. The success of the new professional/institution relationship depends…

Two studies investigated the use of graphic and contextual information in word recognition, and the extent to which good and poor fourth grade readers were flexible in their ability to trade off one type of information for another as situations warranted. The subjects orally read stories containing ten altered words, with a single letter…

A forum, convened to consider the subject of beginning teacher induction, focused on questions about: (1) the importance of the induction phase; (2) whose domain induction is; (3) what happens to the teacher in this phase; (4) training that is most needed in this phase; (5) how induction is related to licensure; and (6) whether induction is unique…

A model that includes three distinct syllabi for orientation courses for different subgroups of the college or university freshman population is presented. Among the groups with special needs are underprepared students who may be motivated but need skill development, and underachieving students characterized by untapped potential. One means of…

One part of the foreign student orientation program at Georgetown University is a videotape production written and acted by students of English as a second language (ESL). The production's two-year development began as a class project in an advanced ESL oral language class. Students discussed the problems of foreign students, organized their ideas…

Discussion of issues related to the development of navigational tools for networked resources considers parallels and differences between traditional library materials and networked resources. Four domains of the networked environment--applications, information containers, information content, and users--are identified; and results of a pilot…