A knowledge of literary forms, periods, and biographical background is of secondary importance in the study of literature, the primary function of which is to help students experience through feeling, intellect, and imagination what it is to be alive. This may be accomplished by the "inductive" or "discovery" method in which students are…

A university English instructor, frustrated at being unable to stimulate his students to construe the sense of poems and to limit their strong subjectivity, tried using extracurricular reading as a spur toward a more honest and attentive interpretation of poetry. His experiment produced successful and interesting results. (RK)

Children at three different developmental levels were given a brief presentation by their classroom teacher regarding the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, one day after the explosion. Conversations and comments were recorded and analyzed according to the cognitive developmental levels of the learner, employing primarily a Piagetian perspective.…

Suggestions are proposed for successfully incorporating dictation machines and tapes in the shorthand classroom. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of providing students with an opportunity for preparation, questions, and learning the procedures in the traditional manner. Students should be given an opportunity to react to the new…

Fourteen young people who have received vocational training answer questions about the problems of society, the possible contributions of vocationally trained young people to the solution of these problems, their current community and national involvement, the reasons for their choice of vocational field and their personal goals and plans. (SA)

Article investigated what seventh grade art students do with a roll of aluminum clothesline, thin aluminum wire, feathers and beads. (Author/RK)

The present study examined the problem of exaggerated reporting of drug use on a drug survey questionnaire by including a bogus drug in a survey administered to high school students. The results indicated that the admitted users of the bogus drugs were significantly different from the other Ss and their responses were consistently in the direction…

Students are generally in favor of the type of grade contracts used in the authors' education courses at Washington State University. (AN)

Results of questionnaire sent to second year students show that although student concept of the ideal lecturer varies with personality, differences are comparatively slight. (Author)

Discussion of Ernest Hemingway's "Old Man at the Bridge, Robert Sherwood's "Idiot's Delight, and Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind . (RD)

The reactions of freshman composition classes and instructors to a set of posters with lesson texts were favorable. (MS)

Describes and discusses the use of a monitor developed to inform a lecturer of his students' responses to his presentation as he gives it. (LS)