Describes a programing course that includes computer tutorial lessons in basic programing language. (MLH)

Three innovative approaches for teaching California history are described. (DE)

The author examined college student characteristics and their relation to performance in a psychology course which employed a personalized system of instruction (PSI). Findings indicated that dependable predictors, such as past performance and ability measures, were as applicable to PSI courses as to traditional ones. (Author/DB)

Describes the physical science courses at Lanchester Polytechnic. These courses are broad-based and offerings cover a wide range of options and use a variety of teaching-learning methods. (GA)

Describes an introductory earth science course concerned with catastrophic events and processes in geology. Includes a section on lecture topics, readings, and visual materials. (MA)

Summarizes the author's efforts in resolving short-term teaching demands with long-term publishing demands through self-control. Outlines a special method of teaching a self-control seminar which helps both teacher and student. Positive actions of daily record keeping and meeting with the seminar greatly increased the rate of professional writing.…

Describes an advanced French civilization course, some of the instructional materials used, and the teaching methods adopted. (AM)

Described is an undergraduate course concerned with ethics and politics. Focus is on the author's attempt to improve the course with a different approach involving examination of the use of violence through lectures, tutorials, films, and simulations. Student assignments and requirements are also described. (JMD)

Describes a 5-hour-weekly course in French as a third foreign language, for Grades 11-13--in particular, the students' motives in choosing the course, methodology, and the rapid transition from textbook work to work with supplementary materials to work with original texts. The course was judged successful. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Principal features of Baylor's course are annually-revised lecture handouts, medically-oriented laboratory sessions with a manual written especially for the course, and clinical demonstrations of infectious disease. Improvement in student performance seems to be related to the course format, increased teaching proficiency, and allocations of hours…

In the office machines class at the University of Nebraska at Omaha students learn how to operate a new machine each week according to a rotation plan illustrated and described in the article. Because of the rotation system, classwork is mostly individualized. Course objectives, instructional procedures, and a breakdown of duration and grade value…

An attempt to replace a tradition of theoretical rote memorization by objective-oriented learning is described, based on an experiment involving teaching anatomy to dental students at the Royal Dental College in Copenhagen. Both students and teachers favored this independent learning system. (Author/LBH)

Describes objectives and student activities of a simulated peace conference which the author has used successfully in a course on Middle East politics at the University of Maine in Orono. (AV)

Describes the moral discussion approach and the deliberate psychological education approach to morals education. Reports the impact of a values course, nine weeks of psychological awareness followed by nine weeks of moral discourse, on the moral development of eleventh grade students. (JK)

Discusses the syllabus, final examination, and teaching methodology for this integrated chemistry and physics course. (CP)