Observations of a departmental and non-departmental outpatient service organization are compared regarding student attitude and evaluation, patient care, clinical exposure control, and faculty attitude and performance. Tables show the evaluation topics of each rotation in the departmental system. (LBH)

A study examined three different approaches to the teaching of economic concepts and the development of problem-solving skills: a real life problem-solving experience, a contrived experience using simulation and gaming, and a discussion-workbook experience. (Author/JR)

Observational learning is theoretically conceptualized as a skill that can be developed along a learning hierarchy from acquisition and fluency development to generalization of imitative behavior. This review characterizes these levels of observational learning and details differential teaching strategies that have been attempted at each level…

Applied research suggests that learning-disabled students can benefit from training in test-taking skills to improve their performance on both standardized tests and content area tests. Recommendations for classroom applications enumerate which skills are most important for objective, short answer, and essay question tests and suggest appropriate…

Test-taking skills should be part of learning-disabled students' instruction. Student performance on previous tests should be analyzed to determine lack of information, carelessness, misinterpretation, material not studied, or incorrect reading. Notetaking techniques, language problems, and special problems presented by essay tests and math tests…

Although agricultural education professors held a positive attitude toward cognitive skill development and frequently used cognitive skill development techniques in their classrooms, the average attitude score and the average use score were lower than might have been expected considering agricultural education's historical commitment to problem…

Reviews findings from three diagnostic studies which focused on the problem of tautological explanations. Includes a report on a teaching intervention strategy which resulted in the improvement of pupil performance. Suggests that avoidance of tautology can be taught. (ML)

Describes a programming environment called Tinker, in which a beginning programmer presents examples to the machine, distinguishing accidental and essential aspects of the examples. Examples of programming in Tinker are presented in which programmers demonstrate how to handle specific examples and the machine formulates a procedure for handling…

Discusses elements of an in-house writing seminar: criteria for selecting a consultant (teaching experience, business experience, fees, etc.), management support, the seminar format, and seminar evaluation using a questionnaire. (CT)

Provides practical guidelines for designing a program to teach various job skills either in the workplace or in the classroom. The principles for each location are similar, although the resources of time, personnel, and technology may typically differ from one office to another or from one school to another. Major elements are induction, theory,…

Identifies procedure to help classroom teachers infuse problem solving into the typical technology education classroom. The five steps involved are (1) set a goal the student can attain, (2) define a task that incorporates new actions and ideas, (3) provide a structure, (4) force the student to choose between several alternatives, and (5) make the…

Discusses the how many and how much lesson (how many people can acquire the rudiments of education, and how much they can learn), and the how few and how little lesson (how few of us assimilate the educational experience, and how little of the distillate consciously affects our decisions and actions). (CT)

Presents ideas to improve education, including employing increasingly effective group procedures, teaching techniques of cooperative planning and group problem solving, developing skills of cooperative assessment and self-evaluation, and developing skills of propaganda analysis. (CT)

Describes an exercise for California high school seniors which reviews basic library skills. Positive impact of exercise use on study-locational skills scores of the California Assessment Program Survey of Basic Skills is illustrated through a review of test scores from 1977 to 1984. (MBR)

The keyword and pegword methods, related mnemonic strategies to improve performance in encoding and retrieving factual information, are described as effective procedures for helping special education and remedial students increase their learning and memory skills. (JW)