Describes the impact of trends in higher education on undergraduate psychology programs. College administrative structures and educational functions and goals are changing due to declining enrollments and funding. The structure of the program must be improved to accommodate increasing student mobility. Individualized instruction is recommended.…

Reports on research to determine the cognitive style of reference librarians on the field dependence/field independence dimension and to relate cognitive style to personal and professional variables such as role perception, library affiliation, and undergraduate major. Included are two figures, one data table, and a reference list. (Author/JL)

The bare minimum mathematical competencies for all college graduates are listed. It is felt too many people know too little mathematics, and ignorance is seen as a form of "functional illiteracy". The ideas presented were generated by a panel established by the Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics. (MP)

Over 260 public school administrators in Pennsylvania completed questionnaires on their undergraduate majors, coaching experience, school supervisory positions, extracurricular activities, and social science backgrounds. Findings confirmed a strong relationship between social science backgrounds and school administrative careers which could be…

A number of general ideas intended to be helpful in analyzing differences in concept images among individuals are formulated. These ideas are applied to the specific concepts of continuity and limits, as taught in the secondary school and university. (MP)

A systematic study of the mathematical competence of all first-year engineering undergraduates at Plymouth Polytechnic, England is described. Results of a remedial mathematics program geared towards individualized instruction are presented. (MP)

Reports results of a survey of first-quarter college accounting principles students. It was found that a typically difficult college course may be made easier and student performance improved by giving high school accounting instruction its proper importance in the curriculum of the business-oriented, college-bound high school student. (CT)

Undergraduate performance and standardized test scores were correlated with dental school performance for 131 members of nine Harvard School of Dental Medicine classes to determine the predictive validity of the earlier variables. The only significant positive correlation was of the Dental Admission Test and dental National Board Examination, part…

A Mathematics without Fear program developed at San Francisco State University is reviewed. It seeks to move pupils who fear mathematics from reliance on rules to concept orientation. (MP)

Describes using undergraduates as student advisers to free faculty from routine counseling tasks in undergraduate engineering programs at Purdue. Describes how advisers are selected and trained. (Author/DS)

Notes responses to present deficiencies in college introductory economics courses. Discusses the University of Nebraska's ADAPT (Accent on Developing Abstract Processes of Thought) program. The interdisciplinary project, based on Piaget's developmental stages, assists students in acquiring reasoning skills for the highest stage of intellectual…

The purpose of this study was to (1) help identify the research skills and competencies needed in the business world, (2) establish educational priorities among these competencies, and (3) offer a methodology for directing future curriculum planning for undergraduate and graduate business programs. (LRA)

Briefly describes problems existing in training of international graduate and undergraduate students studying agricultural education in U.S. universities. Discusses eight questions related to agricultural education programs and their relevance to the international student. (LRA)

Describes an undergraduate organic chemistry course at Colorado State University that employs student-designed laboratory procedures in the laboratory. An outline illustrating the use of this approach is included. Advantages over the traditional approach are detailed. (BT)

Presented is a description of a technical laboratory-oriented science course dealing with the science of enology or wine-making. Experiments and the distillation apparatus are described. (SA)