This critique of the "West Review" (Review of Higher Education Financing and Policy, 1998) raises objections to the Review's recommendation that Australia's higher education program offerings should be decentralized and funded based on student preferences, as well as to the recommendation that research activities be centrally…

Discusses the usefulness of a staff manual for high school publications. Interviews newspaper advisors and staffers/students regarding its day-to-day usefulness. Offers comments from successful advisors who find no reason to have a formal policy manual. Describes the benefits of having students create the staff manual. Includes excerpts from staff…

Examines the ways in which students in basic writing respond to rhetorical constructions of their generation. Argues that compositionists' efforts to intervene and mediate society's conception of youth are complicated by students' simultaneous acceptance and rejection of these representations. Explores the subsequent implications for students' and…

Provides a descriptive basis for assessing three areas in research methods course work for United States students specializing in business and technical communication: research methods topics, required readings, and teaching or assessment methods. Suggests a proposed agenda for preparing students specializing in business and technical…

A description of collaborative teaching in an online course shows the combined challenges of virtual classrooms and team teaching were faced. Teachers and learners adopted new roles, and new teaching structures were created to provide focus for learning in an asynchronous environment. (SK)

Describes the successful incorporation of games into a high school journalism classroom. Notes that there are four main types of educational games that the author uses: getting acquainted, disclosure, teamwork/brainteasers, and energizers or tension reducers. (SG)

Covers all the steps needed to light an open, non-traditional performance space--everything from where to locate lights, support towers, and power sources, to cable and dimmer requirements. Covers safety issues, equipment costs, what students should and should not be allowed to do, and how to deal with electricians and rental companies. (SC)

Describes how a student-based program at the University of Maine at Farmington encouraged students to use the renovated library facilities. Following a needs assessment, Writing Center peer tutors were trained to deliver a library instruction workshop. The key factor in the instructional program was that it was student-led. (AEF)

Describes the redesign of an upper level graduate class in intercultural communication that used Web technology for global communication. Explains problems encountered in the class when it was teacher-driven and goal-oriented, and discusses changes made so it was more student-centered and focused on pedagogical outcomes. (LRW)

Focuses on the relationship of three student predispositions to their expectations for instructor communication behavior. Examines students' communication apprehension, grade and learning orientation, and humor orientation in relation to students' expectations for teachers' use of verbal and nonverbal immediacy behaviors, clarity behaviors, and…

In the current educational climate prevailing in a number of countries, increased emphasis is being placed on the concept of "the artist in schools." Funding is being channeled to support a range of initiatives and schemes that are designed to bring arts professionals from all the art forms into the classroom where they place their artistic…

The majority of new jobs in the 21st century will require some postsecondary education. Yet more than one third of those entering college are underprepared and needful of remediation. In this essay the author shares with the reader his first experience of teaching the lowest level prealgebra course at an urban community college. This is a story of…

This article describes the impact of learning in asynchronous discussion groups on students' levels of knowledge construction. A design-based approach enabled the comparison of two successive cohorts of students (N = 223 and N = 286) participating in discussion groups for one semester. Multilevel analyses were applied to uncover the influence of…

The Assessment is for Learning programme has been implemented by Learning and Teaching Scotland over recent years and there will be further developments throughout the Scottish curriculum up until and beyond 2007. This article re-examines the techniques of formative assessment that can progress pupil learning and appeals to teachers to review…

This study investigates the orientation of language-use practices during in-class peer work of second-year college learners of German in three different sections (classes) of a multi-section course, taught by three different teachers at a public American Midwestern research university. Qualitative analyses of recordings made over the course of an…