Low achievement in school is often a result of poor reading skills. These authors outline an alternate, nonreading curriculum that emphasizes content, not skill. (Author/JM)

Explains how to teach undergraduate students in a comparative psychology course to undertake social science research. Information is presented on selecting appropriate research projects, choosing students with a variety of research styles, and course evaluation. (DB)

Describes a course in which students analyze man-made materials utilizing mineralogical facts and techniques. Discusses course content, teaching methods, and course evaluation. (MA)

The current debate about the history and social studies curricula masks questions about deeper issues concerning society and who is to be included in the American story. If multiperspective history is taught well, it will give students the grounds to make evaluations about historical events. (SLD)

Suggests a videotape illustration is highly effective in teaching Kelley's covariation attribution model. Notes the use of videotapes improves the students' understanding of attribution concepts. Claims students are able to make appropriate attributions using Kelley's model and to apply them to real-life situations. (Author/NL)

Gives advice to those persons contemplating teaching about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in their sociology classroom. Describes the organization of an upper-level seminar for 10 students. Identifies a number of pedagogical and personal hazards that might be encountered when teaching about AIDS and offers strategies for coping with…

A course developed at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf helped eight students improve speech intelligibility on the telephone, through individualized instruction, use of prerecorded audiocassettes, and independent telephone use. The students improved significantly more than control students on two of three articulation measures and on…

A 15 year veteran teacher discusses objectives, content, activities, and structure of her educational sociology course. Included are results from a 1983 survey of educators in the field which provides data on teachers, students, teaching methods and subject matter. (IAH)

Designers of a program evaluation course at the University of Utah focused on teachable concepts and strategies of evaluation. The course addresses five arenas of evaluation generally encountered by school administrators: institution, program and instruction, learners, management, and personnel. Teaching strategies, implementation problems and…

This article describes the teaching approach used in a one-week program evaluation course at the Minnesota Extension Summer School. Workshop participants, graduate level adult educators, gain practice in "utilization-focused evaluation" through assignments involving interviewing and evaluation of other participants. (IAH)

Discusses some of the main protagonists in the debate between economists about their own discourse and reviews significant studies by applied linguists in this area. The article suggests that these studies may be grouped according to the categories micro-studies, macro-studies and educational studies. (57 references) (Author/CK)

Focuses on the debate about the role of literature in the freshman composition course. Argues that literary works are suitable for these courses because they hold multiple points of view and are by nature multidisciplinary. (HB)

The effects of students' conceptual levels and teachers' instruction patterns on students' motivation to learn academic course content were investigated. An examination of 63 students indicated that for low-conceptual-level students, direct teaching methods maximized motivation to learn course content. For high-conceptual-level students, nondirect…

Responses from 64 of 80 extension agents specializing in community resources and economic development identified the "Journal of the Community Development Society" as the primary source of ideas and information. Frequently cited program topics were entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, budgeting, strategic planning, and leadership development. Among…