The problem of accounting failures will not be solved until improved counseling and a flexible programming mark the accounting phase of business education. (JS)

The teacher of a graduate student must be an idealist, speculator of ideas and spiritual organizer to propel the student toward self-actualization and achievement. (IR)

An instructional package should be based on a job task and include the task, competencies, instructional objective, learning experiences, and evaluation items. (DM)

Article presented a description of the system of scheduling of students in effect at Delbrook Secondary School in North Vancouver in British Columbia. (Editor/RK)

An undergraduate special education course at the University of Alberta is designed to prepare students to evaluate, select, administer, and interpret appropriate assessment instruments. The course reviews measurement concepts and formal and informal assessment with a practicum experience. Demonstration videotapes and a test library are additional…

Argues that the types of systematic quantitative reasoning skills developed by the study of statistics have intellectual and practical merits and that quantitative reasoning is better taught as an element of general education by concentrating on descriptive statistics rather than on more complex techniques. (DMM)

Discusses the Public Broadcasting Service's failure to provide critical support for telecourse users. Announcement of telecourse schedules too late for college planning requirements, increased need for delayed telecourse playback, increased fees, exclusive course contracts, and telecourses inappropriate as required or elective courses are…

History instruction should teach students about the processes through which history is made and understood. Students need to learn skills in historical analysis and interpretation, study people of the past and present involved in making history, and study historical principles that cultivate humane values. (AM)

Presents a self-scoring ideology attitude survey that can be taken by teachers to help them identify their belief systems and the possible influences of these belief systems on classroom content and teaching style. (WD)

Argues that librarians who instruct library users should work out instructional approaches that combine emphasis on the particulars of sound library use with broader concepts of research and use of information. (FM)

Describes benefits of teaching a course on the Soviet press to Russian language students, including the opportunity to integrate practical considerations of reading and conversation skills with theoretical considerations of philosophy and principles of mass communication in the Soviet Union. (Author/BK)