Describes an educational program designed to help children build a healthy self concept. Provides guidelines to assist the teacher in meeting that responsibility. (Author/RK)

A preceptorship initiated in 1975 is described that incorporates rounds, self-instruction, independent study, and the desirable characteristics of off-campus programs. The student is given self-assessment tests each week during the 12-week period and the final evaluation is given by an outside examiner. (LBH)

Western Piedmont Community College adopted the concept of a people-oriented Learning Resources Center with services offered to the entire college community through a learning laboratory, audiovisual center and library. (JG)

Describes the construction and operation of a moveable videotape studio that is used in a chemistry laboratory to illustrate laboratory skills and experiments. (MLH)

Describes an advanced inorganic chemistry experiment in which students prepare two coordination compounds and study their stereochemistry using infrared spectroscopy. (MLH)

Describes an experiment in which nitric acid is synthesized from ammonia on a small scale to illustrate a major industrial process. (MLH)

Presents eight chemistry activities that are interesting and involve simple, easily available materials. Topics include mystery writing, valentine hearts, flame tests, evaporation race, buoyancy versus mass, determination of relative masses of gases, mole sample container, and cold and hot packs. (DDR)

Details the construction of a viewing chamber for fruit flies that connects to a dissecting microscope and features a design that enables students to easily move fruit flies in and out of the chamber. (DDR)

Details an activity in which students use their natural inquisitiveness about their personal environment to investigate the composition of cigarette smoke. Includes techniques for measuring tar and carbon monoxide content. (DDR)

Describes the development and implementation of an investigative laboratory class. The new laboratory design has been determined to be a success by faculty, teaching assistants, and students. Includes a sample laboratory description. (DKM)

Describes the National ADC0804, an inexpensive and readily available integrated ADC converter that can convert an analog voltage to an 8-bit signal. Includes schematic drawings. (DDR)

Attempts to shed some light on the relationship between parents and mathematics teachers by examining the role that parents play in mathematics education reform at eight high schools and one laboratory school. (DDR)

Outlines some misconceptions and misunderstandings that underlie most dissection conflicts with the aim of making the dissection issue less volatile and one that generates fewer difficulties for students, teachers, and administrators. Lists published surveys of students' attitudes toward dissection and other animal uses in education. Discusses the…

Talks about the benefits of failure, both to the individual teacher and to the writing center as an institution. Examines the phenomenon of the hard-to-help student and how it leads scholar-teachers to reexamine their approaches and pedagogies. (TB)

Describes a series of hands-on experiments that engage students in hypothesis testing and promotes active learning of the concepts of evolution and adaptation. Laboratory exercises demonstrate how features of the hands and eyes distinguish primates from other mammals. (SOE)