A study of the effect of incorporating medical ethics into the medical curriculum and comparing two teaching methods (lecture and case studies) found higher moral reasoning after instruction, but neither method was significantly more effective. (Author/MSE)

Argues that the fee-or-free issue is far from resolved and discusses factors contributing to the debate. These include the impact of technology on social values, arguments for and against user fees, and the impact of technology on library services. A reconceptualization of information as a gift, rather than a commodity, is presented. (25…

Examined the career values of 203 college-bound students to ascertain how selected careers, including teaching, were perceived to satisfy needs derived from these values. Also investigated differences among the perceptions of academically talented individuals, average students, and a leadership group. Very few of these students identified teaching…

Several recent reports which call for educational reform see the primary function of the nation's schools as serving the interests of economic productivity. A prevalent theme of these reports is that school practice should be modeled after the corporate workplace. Implications of such an environment for civic education are discussed. (IAH)

Discusses the identification of the dimensions of conflict in resource use. Presents some views on broad methodological issues in resource and environmental evaluation. (Author/RT)

Surveys college and university public relations directors, their presidents, and the media whom the public relations people identified as their primary newspapers. Reports what the public relations people and presidents said about themselves and what the media said about the public relations people. (MS)

Presented is a review of environmental ethics since the Belgrade Charter of 1976. Outlines seven ethical positions to be considered. Discusses ethics in environmental education practice. Focuses on four ways to lessen the dilemma of the presentation of values in environmental education. (CW)

Finds that, among 46 Inuit and 11 White 10-16-year-old students in the Northwest Territories (Canada), Inuit students had less modern values than their white peers, but Inuit scores varied considerably both within and among the 5 value orientations examined. Contains 34 references. (SV)

Interviews with (n=55) children and their teachers in years one, two, and three showed a closer association between knowledge of place value and levels of counting than between levels of counting and the ability to explain the counting sequence. (13 references) (MKR)

Presents a philosophical analysis of E. D. Hirsch's book, "Cultural Literacy." Concludes that Hirsch fails to acknowledge the problem of cultural transmission in a society where people have been conditioned to a mode of reception characterized by continual excitement and distraction. (CFR)

A code of ethics for physical education majors highlights attitudes toward the faculty, peers, and discipline; knowledge of the discipline; ethical behavior; obligations to professional organizations; and obligations to volunteer within the community, to provide service through recruitment of potential physical education students, and to be an…

Describes a plan for a professional development program in educational systems design to prepare facilitators in educational change and restructuring efforts. Highlights include roles in the change process; values and criteria for design; change strategies; emotional stages; attitudinal roadblocks; and needed competencies and skills, including…

Discusses the genre of teen paperback series. Topics addressed include the necessity for different evaluation criteria than those applied to monographs regarding setting, characters, and continuity; value judgments regarding quality and enjoyment; collection development; and improved circulation. (LRW)

Prior studies indicate that, given time to develop their own algorithms, primary students will process multidigit addition or subtraction problems from left to right. Gives evidence to support that idea, describes methods of getting students to invent their own algorithms, and discusses advantages of child-invented procedures. (21 references) (MDH)

Describes Vygotsky's zones of proximal development, the importance of social interaction in learning through problem solving, and the benefits of modeling. Presents three implications for teaching and learning mathematics based on a teaching experiment focusing on these constructs. (MDH)