The document contains a brief outline of the conference proceedings and the text of two papers presented at the conference. Alan M. Rubin's paper, "Give Me a Fish and I Eat for a Day. Teach Me to Fish and I Eat for a Lifetime" (from the Babylonian Talmud), examines the question of whether our institutions of higher education are providing the…

This module is divided into five sections, each of which emphasizes a different aspect of planning for using drill activities. These are "what we know about learning through drill,""drill: how and when to use it,""commercial materials for use in drill,""activities and games for use in drill," and "using new drill activities." There is a programed…

The paper describes progress in the development of the Advanced Instructional System's Instructional Strategy Subsystem. Described are procedures for developing the Student Evaluation Component (which includes selection and validation of preassessment and within-course measures necessary for the development of a Student Data Profile) and the…

Based on the example of the experimental We Weigh and Achieve to Gain Success (WAGS) program at Polk Community College which is designed to deal with unmotivated, undecided, and unprepared students, this study develops a model for implementing a student-centered remedial program at the community college level. The model outlines procedures to…

Longitudinal relationships, between two measures of both job performance and job satisfaction over a three-year period, were investigated for 1,352 airmen in eight enlisted Air Force occupational specialties. Cross-lagged panel correlation analyses were compared to conclusions based on an extended multiple linear regression analysis technique.…

Extension classes student characteristics for Continuing Education and Extension, University of Minnesota, are presented and provide a basis for future program planning. Detailed descriptions and 22 supplemental tables are presented regarding: patterns of registration, span of attendance, courses registered for and completed, educational…

The study was conducted to examine the manner in which various aspects of the Air Force are viewed by incoming recruits and to determine how these perceptions were related to volunteer enlistment decisions. Survey questionnaires were administered to basic trainees in FY 1971 (8,007) and FY 1972 (9,331). Respondents were asked to indicate their…

Human development tasks have become an integral part of many humanistic curriculum models. When such activities are employed in the foreign language classroom, several prominent factors can be indentified: on a psychological (affective) level, integrative and transactional motivation; on a linguistic (cognitive/affective) level, active listening…

This study investigated the relationship between visual attending and learning in a group of 16 Head Start children from low income families. Attending behavior (defined as "eyes oriented towards the teacher and/or teaching materials for a full 5-second interval") was measured for each child during a 10-minute story period on four…

While debates over the heritability of IQ and the potential for culture bias in measuring instruments have generated much research and public comment, it is also possible to investigate the significance of interracial differences in mean IQ by ignoring both the foregoing issues and instead examining the social psychology of the test situation…

Major changes are involved in the teaching/learning process in career education and the classroom teacher is of key importance. Emphasis must be placed on: (1) the rationale for career education in the classroom; (2) the use of career implications of subject matter as motivational devices; (3) implications of expanding the parameters of the…

This study examined the relationship between the level of achievement motivation of Essex County College students and their grades in psychology. Forty-one ECC students, both male and female, predominantly lower-class black students, took part in the study. The level of achievement motivation was measured in terms of the scores a person obtained…

In presenting a new strategy for redesigning jobs to increase the work motivation and satisfaction of employees, the paper examines a basic theory of job motivation, a group of core dimensions of jobs which create the conditions for such internal motivation to develop on the job, a set of diagnostic tools for evaluating jobs and people's reaction…

Linguistics can have useful applications in elementary and secondary language arts instruction, in a number of areas of skill development. The issue of student motivation is involved with the form of language used--standard or nonstandard--and educators may adopt the linguistic view that all forms of language have value and their use depends on…

The main issues in this study are the paucity of black apprentices and the transferability of success achieved in New York by the Workers Defense League (WDL) to other places. The paper: (1) outlines the general nature of apprenticeship in the United States; (2) discusses the reason for the low participation of the blacks in these programs in the…