This report comprises a collection of summaries of exploratory efforts by college professors at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation member institutions to develop new and better ways of teaching. Usually these are local experiments aimed at improving the conditions for learning in a specific subject-matter area, but many of the procedures…

AN EXPERIMENTAL SUMMER COURSE IN ECONOMICS WAS PRESENTED TO 53 PREFRESHMAN COLLEGE STUDENTS. THE 6-WEEK COURSE ENTAILED LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS. ONCE A WEEK THE ENTIRE CLASS WAS BROKEN INTO SMALL GROUPS THAT WOULD MEET WITH A SECTION INSTRUCTOR OR LECTURER TO DISCUSS A SPECIFIC READING. AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK, A FILM RELEVANT TO THE COURSE WAS…

TEACHERS IN BIOLOGY, ENGLISH, HUMANITIES, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AT THE UNIVERSITY AND AT VARIOUS JUNIOR COLLEGES IN FLORIDA TESTED THE VALUE OF ORIENTING COURSES TOWARD STUDENT PARTICIPATION AND AWAY FROM LECTURES. EACH INSTRUCTOR CONDUCTED ONE CONVENTIONAL COURSE AND ONE EXPERIMENTAL, LESS STRUCTURED COURSE COVERING…

An experimental Basic Electricity and Electronics course (BE/E) utilizing a lock-step, instructor presentation methodology was developed and evaluated at the Service School Command, Great Lakes. The study, directed toward the training of lower mental group, school nonqualified personnel, investigated comparative data on test performance, attitude,…