This paper summarizes main findings from an investigation of the familiarity and importance of assessment practices from the perspectives of Mexican teachers, counselors, and administrators. A survey that listed 74 practices, sampling 7 areas of competencies, was assembled from the Code of Fair Testing Practices in Education, the Standards for…

Previous research has indicated that without adequate background knowledge, statistical learners can miss important details and build up more misconceptions through interactive simulations. To rectify this situation, two types of multimedia with limited learner control were used in a Web-based statistical course: (1) linear digital movies; and (2)…

Structural knowledge is a pre-requisite to valid performance assessment scores because structural knowledge leads to better transfer. Better transfer will cause consistency to occur between task performances for a given individual, and this consistency allows for less construct-irrelevant variance and more construct-relevant variance to be present…

Students taking hybrid or online classes are often unprepared for the kinds of skills that are needed to be successful in this environment. This report provides an overview of one approach, an interactive CD-ROM (SPARK), that faculty can use to assist students in narrowing the gap between needed online learning skills and their current technical…

Discussed international cooperation and the best way governments can achieve it. Focused on technical and personal links which could create a basis for other joint work in applied research and on improved material productivity. (Author/RK)

A questionnaire administered prior to offering an undergraduate basic health course concluded that: (1) students had many misconceptions about both drug abuse and venereal disease but more about venereal disease; (2) there is no significant difference between sexes or age groups in prevalence of misconceptions. Presented at American School Health…

The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston has conducted a study to determine the retention of knowledge in a neurosciences course and its implications in a clinical clerkship. (PG)

Findings lend support for further development of the Manikin Construction Task for the purpose of measuring specific conceptual knowledge at all ages. There is also support for its development as an intellectual screening instrument at the 3-year level. (Author)

Results indicates that awareness of the facilitative effect of categorization on recall increases with age, particularly during the early grade-school years. (Author)

Discusses the measures needed to promote the study of science in the educational system of Great Britain. (Author/RK)

Students in 14 teacher colleges in Great Britian were given tests to assess their knowledge of the reproductive system, genetics, and venereal diseases. Test results indicate the necessity for intensive health education courses in Colleges of Education. (DS)

Instruction in the humanities has reached a cultural impasse. The problem lies in finding a way to center the lore of a culture in any given curriculum. (CK)

The external degree provides an educational shortcut by providing credits for knowledge obtained outside of college. (Editor)