Twenty-two classroom activities appropriate for college introductory psychology classes are presented. The activities require from one to four classroom sessions and introduce a variety of psychology concepts, including description, prediction, and control; research methodology; learning and memory; need for achievement; perception and creativity;…

Research results show that there is little loss in student productivity when changing from small lecture classes to large sections in principles of economics courses. A large lecture section of a college level principles of economics course with undergraduate tutors providing personal assistance to students was compared with six classes of 35 to…

Research indicates that sexual abuse of children is widespread and underreported. Since child development workers are among children's first contacts, the emotional and physical well-being of the young children in their care depends to a large degree on workers' awareness of characteristics of sexually abused children and abusive parents. In turn,…

An undergraduate honors course on the Nobel Peace Prize winners at the University of Maryland focuses on styles of leadership and includes three main areas of attention: (1) the inner journey, or heart of the peacemaker, (2) leadership exercised through organizations and movements, and (3) the rhetoric of the leader. The course was divided into a…

This study investigated the relative benefits of peer-­controlled and moderated online collaboration during group problem solving. Thirty­-five self­-selected groups of four or five students were randomly assigned to the two conditions, which used the same online collaborative tool to solve twelve problem scenarios in an undergraduate statistics…

Article discussed general education, the development of undergraduate education, and the factors that influence change in higher education. (RK)

The workshop was convened by the Social Science Research Council of Canada as part of its annual meeting. Its purpose was to explore the possible usefulness of a large-scale conference on the same topic. The three papers presented are included in the final report: (1) social science research needs of smaller Canadian universities (John T. Sears);…

Arguing that reform of undergraduate education is more urgent at a time of retrenchment and will require making teaching a collegial activity if it is to compete with research, the author proposes a reorganization into teaching clusters of perhaps 15 faculty, 10 graduate students, and 200 students in a "theme center." (JT)

In response to the customary practice of administrators and faculty designing undergraduate programs only in terms of content and sequence, this book encourages presidents, deans, department heads, curriculum specialists, and faculty to take a broader perspective on program planning. Specifically, it advocates consideration of (1) how time and…

This publication contains all of the data collected by a special project which surveyed issues and resources in teaching undergraduate sociology. An analysis of the data is provided in SO 013 315. The data were collected from a questionnaire mailed to a sample of chairpersons of departments of sociology in universities, colleges, and community…

In 1962 the Optical Society of America (OSA) established the Needs in Optics Committee for the purpose of increasing the national supply of personnel trained in optics. In order to carry out this program, the problem was broken down into six tasks, one of which was concerned with Undergraduate Research Programs. The Task IV group convened more…

This report contains: an address by Kenneth E. Young, "Evaluating Educational Quality: the Central but Changed Role of Accreditation;" and summaries of the concurrent sessions on nontraditional baccalaureate degree-awarding institutions and programs; nontraditional graduate degree-awarding institutions and programs; and a report on the general…

The nature and use of the Cornell Mathematics Support Center (MSC) is discussed. It is viewed as significantly different from other existing support programs in that it is part of the Department of Mathematics and offers encouragement and support to any interested student, no matter what that pupil's mathematics level is. The MSC is based on the…

This report describes the program and activities of Modules and Monographs in Mathematics and its Applications Project (UMAP) from July, 1976 through December, 1980. UMAP's purpose is to: (1) Develop and disseminate self-contained modular materials in mathematics and its applications suitable for the undergraduate classroom, to help meet the…