The responsibilities of university presidents and board chairs have evolved significantly from the early days of public higher education. There was a time when the power of the board was absolute, but those days are long gone, and it remains an open question whether the structures of public boards have kept pace with the complex social…

The broad goal of this report is to describe a form of knowing and a way of participating in mathematics learning that contribute to and further alternative views of transfer of learning. We selected an episode with an undergraduate student engaged in a number of different tasks involving a physical tool called "water wheel". The embodied…

This study tested whether mental rotation performance of 186 high school students (80 males and 106 females) in grades 9 through 12 in art and nonart classes on Vandenbergs Mental Rotations test (S. Vandenberg and Kuse, 1978) was affected by gender, visual-spatial activities, strategies used while performing the test, and the ease of test taking.…

The value of children's drawing and writing in science lies in its potential to assist children in making observations, remembering events, and communicating understandings. However, a neglected aspect of children's representations is that they can serve the teacher as guide to children's understandings and as a diagnostic tool. By creating their…

This study investigates students' perceptions of teachers' pupil control behavior, classroom robustness, and student self-control. Results reveal an association between humanistic pupil control behavior of teachers and high levels of classroom robustness, high levels of classroom robustness and high student self-control, and teacher humanism in…

It's not enough to learn the skills, faculty members discovered; they had to develop, internalize, and learn to project a different kind of role model for their students. In this document, eight teaching approaches are outlined, and the difficulties involved in role change for both students and faculty are explored. (Author)

Article focused on what music is and how sound materials are put together and manipulated to produce expressive forms of music. (Author/RK)

Examines student and student personnel workers' perceptions of a university environment in order to ascertain areas of perceptual agreement and disparity so that the student personnel worker can help create an environment geared toward total human development. (Author)

Considered the merit in student evaluation of teacher performance in the classroom as well as the reaction of faculty to being judged by their students. (RK)

Discussed the child's view of his environment through synaesthesia, referring to the interassociation of the different senses. (Author/RK)

Current teaching and thinking about theatre performances tend to ignore kinesics. Kinesics study answers the need for consideration of analogical thinking and nonverbal communication distinctive to theatrical performance. (CH)

The author sanctions the involvement of student personnel workers not only in facilitating individual development but in building curriculum and improving methods of instruction. To build a development team of faculty and student personnel workers, he suggests alterations in administrative structure, equal involvement in campus decision-making,…

A discussion of how the information explosion will require instantanious visual communication. (HB)

Discusses the objectives and presents instructional materials for a course entitled Women in American Literature'' which attempts to introduce students to the concept of alternative life styles for American women. (RB)