In a course titled Computerized Consumer Responses and Information Systems, Purdue University students operate a consumer hotline for their school. They must promote its existence, answer calls, develop reports, produce training manuals, and set parameters for the computer system. (SK)

Outlines a year-long project for students to create scrapbooks with reflective writings, monthly activities, special writings and projects, achievements, and social activities. Students bind and decorate the scrapbooks then share them with one another before school ends. (SM)

Suggestions for motivating gifted underachieving secondary students include independent study projects for credit, science fair projects, curriculum compacting, the use of adult mentors, and other approaches which emphasize building on student interests. (DB)

Examines a continuum of classroom uses for telecommunications, in terms of both their appropriateness and their ease of use for students and educators. Focuses on four projects that involve people-to-people contact around the world via computer and modem. (SR)

Describes the Students as Authors Project, a schoolwide project that entails writing, illustrating, and publishing books of all genres by children for children. (SR)

Describes the United States Postal Service's Wee Deliver program, as implemented at Dupo Grade School in Dupo, Illinois. Wee Deliver helps elementary school students create and run their own in-school "postal system," providing them with experience in many practical skills, such as writing and addressing letters, and applying for and…

This project at Haynes Elementary School in Sudbury, Massachusetts, helps students learn about the public water system. Students constructed a model, made of cardboard boxes big enough for them to crawl through, that traced the path of water from the reservoir to their kitchen tap. The students then gave an audiovisual presentation to parents and…

Multiple task forces of business graduate students developed strategic plans for local organizations and analyzed them as "living cases." Such field-based projects are relevant and realistic. (SK)

Modification of an approach to teaching organizational behavior that has students create and operate actual companies include providing thought starters to stimulate evaluation; changing the way group leaders are selected; requiring a business plan, performance appraisal, and feedback system; adding textbooks; and using team-building activities.…

Australian nursing students produced a health-education fair for their campus, synthesizing research findings to present high-quality information. In reflective papers, students considered how they applied research, technical, interpersonal, and creative skills to the project. (SK)

Introduces a semester-long project approach for science or mathematics nonmajor students and lists the objectives of the project. Lists criteria for student evaluation and provides examples of students' creative final projects. (Contains 18 references.) (YDS)

A curriculum development project was designed to provide a learning environment for students from various disciplines to work together within an institution or between institutions in different countries. The student projects simulate the workplace of the modern European engineering manager. (JOW)

Proposes activity theory as a framework for student project work that is a form of open-ended contextual activity-based learning emphasizing problem solving as a collaborative effort. Topics include project work from a Vygotskian perspective of activity theory; and the design of a prototype for Web-based project work. (LRW)

Business students interviewed managers in 94 companies, 52 of which were involved in total quality management (TQM). Those not using TQM cited no perceived benefits or small company size. They were less likely to provide training in group process, empower employees to make quality improvements, or employ cross-functional teams. (SK)

Describes an end-of-semester assignment used in business communication courses in which groups of students give final presentations comparing communication strategies of three companies in an industry. Notes that the techniques of creating and giving multimedia presentations are learned by students from each other. (SR)