Offers tips on how to prepare for test taking, including taking notes, reading textbooks, reviewing, and approaching the test with a positive attitude. (FL)

Collegiate life during the eighteenth century at Harvard was characterized by a developing consciousness of student freedom as well as an increasing elaboration of student governance procedures. Using college records of laws, customs, and cases of student discipline, the analysis focuses on elements that affected the decision-making process.…

The emerging economic paradigm of higher education will make enhancing national productivity the primary goal; emphasize the mastery of learning skills over rote learning; and operate around the principle of customer service, viewing students as customers. Total Quality Management (TQM), as applied to education, shares this focus on customer…

This book provides both a review of what has been discovered from earlier research and identifies trends and future directions for future research on learner contributions to language learning. The book has an introduction, a postscript, and eight chapters and includes the following: "Introduction: Conceptualization, affect, and action in…

This books aims to change the way the reader views radical literacy education, offering a personal look at the Freirean ideas that guided an educator's early years of teaching, and the theories and classroom experiences that urged her to take a second look. Through her own experience, the author demonstrated the power of sustained dialogue between…

Written by 10 middle school students, this booklet provides information needed to become a youth consultant in the service learning field. Section 1 provides a job description of a youth consultant. It lists duties of a youth consultant at school and locally, statewide, or nationally. Section 2 sets forth the selection criteria for youth…

A student describes his need for experiential learning processes and the extent to which the School for Educational Change and Development at the University of Northern Colorado has fulfilled that need. (HMD)

Considered the blend of humanities and traditional curriculum as a necessary part of the school responsibility. (RK)

This study examined teacher perceptions of student role and the significance of these perceptions in classroom verbal interaction. (JC)

What oppresses students more than anything else today is our telling them to shut up. (Author)

The Chinese student's role in political, social, and economic developments, and the growth of the communist government is examined. Problems affecting educational reform in Red China are discussed. (SM)

Discusses questions concerning the scope and substance of collective negotiations at the university level. (JF)

Discusses the influence teacher expectations have on the learning behavior and self concept of students. (RB)

A descriptive analysis of today's students, reflecting them as serious minded, independent, responsive young adults, who will be responsible for the survival of this world and this country. (JB)

Lists the ills attributed to today's university experience and the role adult education will play in the remedy of those ills. (RK)