Opinions on undergraduate psychology programs were obtained from 348 psychology alumni who graduated between 1978 and 1988, and from 101 psychology faculty who taught during this same period on eight campuses of California State University. Twenty items reflecting student development and eight items measuring program quality were factor analyzed…

This paper describes a course taken by elementary student teachers at Central Missouri State University, with particular emphasis on the action research projects that are a part of the course requirements. The intent of the course and the action research is to foster in the student teachers reflective decision making in their own classrooms.…

This document looks at the college student who is an adult child from a dysfunctional family, applying Chickering's seven vectors of college-age student development to that student's experiences at college. Each of Chickering's seven vectors (developing competence, managing emotions, developing autonomy, establishing identity, freeing…

In 1989, the Minnesota Office of Educational Leadership (OEL) was directed to develop a plan for a 2-year research project to determine the effectiveness of a learner outcome-based system of education in improving pupil learning. Ten research and development project sites comprising 17 districts and 5 educational consortia received grants of…

The authors give practical answers to some common questions asked about non-graded programs and individualized learning. (Editor)

The author questions whether emphasis on student needs for immediate employment is at the expense of the quality of education given them and points up the role of trustees in helping administrators and faculty divorce society's manpower needs from the needs of students to achieve excellence. (Editor/JT)

To bridge the schism between academic and student life departments and produce programs offering opportunities for both cognitive development and personal growth, Brooklyn College developed a formal content oriented course, Basic Training for Peer Counselors, as part of a training program for student volunteer counselors in the Drop-In Center. (JT)

What started as a field trip has grown into a two-year Bicentennial celebration, with more permanent changes likely to come. (Editor)

Lifelong learning cries out for a philosophy adequate to its potential as a social force. (Editor)

The failure of todays education to develop critical and analytical skills in students is examined. This journal is available from the Department of Philosophy, Jersey City State College, 2039 Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City, New Jersey 07305. (Author/DE)

Describes a self-actualized individual and maintains that helping students develop some measure of self-actualized behavior is imperative for higher education. Student personnel workers are encouraged to focus on student experiences at the university, developing new programs to heighten student self-actualization, and continually evaluating old…

This article explores some of the challenges that young children face when they begin formalised literacy learning in the classroom, in particular learning to write. The challenges are discussed in terms of the transitions children are faced with when moving from family and community literacy practices to more explicit and formal school learning…

One teacher through five years of schooling? That's how it's done in Italy. Author considered the Italian elementary school program in view of whether such a system would work in American schools. (Editor/RK)

A study was conducted to explore the question of what works in secondary vocational education--whether exemplary vocational programs can be identified, whether their key features can be described, and whether there are lessons to be learned that can assist others in devising strategies to improve secondary vocational education. Methodology…