This essay identifies several things teachers can learn from students or from the sheer act of teaching: about their own personalities; about ways to improve their teaching; and about subject matter, through simplifying and organizing it for presentation, through student questions, and through the natural flow of ideas. (Author/SJL)

The author, a former chief reader for Advanced Placement European History, provides secondary school and college instructors with criteria for constructing essay examinations. Topics include goals, language/wording, directions, sequence of questions, breadth versus specificity, compare and contrast questions, quotations, dates, and current events.…

Provides some suggestions for testing handicapped learners using essay and objective tests. Sources for audiotapes of textbooks and supplementary readings for visually impaired students are also indicated. (CMV)

Discusses the evaluation process for school media programs: (1) what is evaluation, (2) why evaluate, and (3) how to evaluate. (Author)

Emphasizes the potential use of a district-level evaluation of school media programs as an aid in planning and decision making. Quantitative and qualitative measurement of media program components are considered. (JD)

Presents an overview of frame games developed to provide a content-free instructional structure on which can be loaded locally relevant content. Included are an analysis and comparison of selected games on the basis of eight important characteristics, overall evaluations of selected games, and advantages and disadvantages of frame games. (CMV)

Reports on observations of mathematics teaching in British infant and primary schools. Focuses on writings which have influenced recent education in Britain and on the use of materials in classroom activities. (SS)

This article delineates the background, the events, and the social processes through which a segment of the Vietnamese population has become an American refugee problem. (Author/EB)

This paper describes the Puerto Rican movement to the mainland United States as a contract labor group before, during, and after World War II. The communities which developed from this early movement provided the nucleus from which the present Puerto Rican communities arose on the mainland U.S. (Author/EB)

Discusses some of the problems faced by educators and systems developers in developing and implementing effective technological systems for the instruction, administration, and management of education on a broad scale. (Author/JEG)

The conditions and the rhetoric have changed; but in the age of the "instant librarian," the future still depends on the school media specialist's ability to focus on the user as an individual and provide an environment that promotes learning. (Author)

In all countries traditional sex roles are an important determinant of the education males and females receive or choose. (Author)

An argument is built for the investigation of the activity of schooling through an understanding of the personal ideologies of those people through whose actions schools are created and maintained. Provides an example of how recent developments in the inquiry into organizational life may complement current curriculum reconceptualization. (Author)

Some causes for reliability problems in tutor-marked assignments are discussed: factors relating to the questions such as ambiguous, overloaded, hidden agenda, and unrealistic questions; variations caused by differing tutor notes; and students not answering the question, scales and standards, rounding and partial scores, and bonus marks. (JMF)

Essay assignments provide a major portion of students' grades in most Open University curricula. The main educational objectives of essay questions are relevance and the ability to argue a thesis in the light of the course material. (JMF)