Presented is the initial volume of a three-volume report detailing the evaluation of the National Science Foundation Comprehensive Assistance to Undergraduate Science Education (CAUSE) program, a program developed to encourage the improvement in quality and effectiveness of undergraduate science education in institutions of higher education.…

In 1975-76, 26 institutionally administered tests gave students at the University of Texas at Austin the chance to earn credits for 52 lower division courses in 15 departments: anthropology, biology, chemistry, communication, English, French, German, government, history, Latin, mathematics, physics, psychology, Russian, and Spanish. Results were…

REPORTED ARE THE FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF A PANEL ESTABLISHED BY THE ADVISORY COUNCIL ON COLLEGE CHEMISTRY (ACCC) WORKING COOPERATIVELY WITH THE COMMITTEE ON THE UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM IN MATHEMATICS (CUPM). THE FUNCTION OF THIS PANEL WAS TO DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATENESS OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHANGES IN THE UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS…

THE COMMITTEE ON COMPUTER SCIENCES IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (COSINE COMMITTEE) OF THE COMMISSION ON ENGINEERING REPORTS ITS EXPLORATION OF THE ROLE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN COMPUTER SCIENCES. GREATER FLEXIBILITY IN ENGINEERING CURRICULA IS FELT ESSENTIAL TO MEET THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS IN SUCH A RAPIDLY CHANGING AND DIVERSE FIELD. THE MAJOR…

This project consisted of the design, trial use, and evaluation of instructional procedures designed to reduce the amount of routine information given directly to the students by the instructor in chemistry laboratory courses for college freshmen. Printed materials gave the student a decision-making role in planning his laboratory work. Tape-slide…

Developed as part of a series of materials in the electrical engineering sequence developed under contract with the United States Office of Education, this laboratory manual provides nine laboratory projects suitable for a second course in electrical engineering. Dealing with resonant circuits, electrostatic fields, magnetic devices, and…

Recently, there has been a growing interest in career education in the speech communication field. Parallel development of interest in organizational communication has provided the impetus for the institution of curricula to train students to perform the role of organizational-communication specialist. This paper outlines the elements of training…

A simple deterministic macroeconomic computer model was tested in a junior-senior level economic statistics course to demonstrate how and why some common errors arise when statistical estimation techniques are applied to economic relationships in empirical problematic situations. The computer model was treated as the true universe or real-world…

This study is a comparative analysis of undergraduate credit courses in library instruction, taught by university librarians and offered by ten State University of New York (SUNY) institutions--Albany, Brockport, Buffalo, Environmental Science and Forestry, New Paltz, Oneonta, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Stony Brook, and Upstate Medical. Topics include a…

Investigated were the effects of using intelligence quotients, high school rank, College Entrance Board Scholastic Aptitude Test scores in mathematics, and high school mathematics grades as predictors of success in finite mathematics. One hundred twenty-three students were included in the study. The SAT-Mathematics score was the best predictor…

This project was funded by the National Science Foundation to help institutions of higher education develop course-related library instruction programs for students in undergraduate science programs. The second volume of the annual report for 1976-77 continues appendix four of the first volume, the October 1976 workshop proceedings. It presents…

This book is intended as a final report on those activities and institutions supported through the National Science Foundation's College Science Improvement Programs (COSIP A & B), and as a reference to current developments in undergraduate science education. In the first major subdividion of this work are included project abstracts for the…

A program designed to increase studnet interest and provide motivation in a third-year systems and measurements laboratory in mechanical engineering is provided. The philosophy of the course, instructional techniques, equipment design (including schematics and photographs), suggested activities, and student reactions to the course are presented.…

This work contains 21 computer programs intended for use in a chemical engineering education format. The programs represent appropriate homework exercises for undergraduate students. The intended academic level is listed for each example. Although the activities deal with specific problems, the computer programs represent the areas of kinetics,…

The semantic differential technique was used in a study involving 40 undergraduate trainees in the area of special education to analyze the concepts "disabled" and "handicapped" and the effects of structured knowledge or definition on the participants' perceptions of and attitudes toward the concepts. The Semantic differential consisted of bipolar…