Discusses the difficulties of attracting and maintaining skilled personnel in the environmental laboratory industry. Describes major factors contributing to the current situation and industry efforts to remedy the problems. (MCO)

Explores the issue of physics laboratory work for engineering students and discusses the design, implementation, and evaluation of a laboratory program developed for first year engineering students. (DDR)

Investigates the content and structure of the undergraduate curriculum in psychology by analyzing 500 college catalogs. Reveals that introductory, statistics, and a capstone are the common required courses, laboratory experiences are not integral to required courses, prerequisites are recommended, and the traditional model is the most popular…

Presents a model combining videotape and other media for integration into social work curriculum design as part of the on-campus laboratory, a skill training and practice center, which assists with the interface of classroom and field education. (JT)

Describes an inexpensive program that has demonstrated success in increasing social skills. A student project in a school of social work brought about changes both in attitude and behavior in widely diverse groups. (Author)

This document provides abstracts of 116 laboratory experiments/demonstrations currently being utilized in all areas of engineering education at 52 universities across the United States. (SL)

Describes an arrangement of a laboratory course in biochemistry designed to teach currently used biochemical techniques and then have students apply the procedures in a real research program so as to give students a better understanding of biochemistry. (BR)

Contains a checklist of 36 non-operationally stated items and an evaluation of each by a faculty group of 30. Reports the need for non-cookbook experience, an emphasis on knowledge of specific instruments, and the essential function of laboratory as a teacher of the theory and process of experimentation. (GH)

This is the second in a series of documents developed by the National Training and Operational Technology Center describing operational control procedures for the activated sludge process used in wastewater treatment. This document deals exclusively with the calculation procedures, including simplified mixing formulas, aeration tank…

This document is the appendix for a series of documents developed by the National Training and Operational Technology Center describing operational control procedures for the activated sludge process used in wastewater treatment. Categories discussed include: control test data, trend charts, moving averages, semi-logarithmic plots, probability…

This paper states that the real issue in multicultural education is to gain a clear sense of cultural dynamics as they affect education and to develop effective strategies for guaranteeing real equity in educational opportunity for all. The author discusses some essentials of multicultural education. First, the following nine essential…

The Henry Barnard Child Care Center was established on the Rhode Island College campus to achieve the following main objectives: (a) to provide a comprehensive quality day care program for young children, (b) to serve as a model and resource for existing day care centers within the state, and (c) to provide specifically designed laboratory…

This document is a first-person account by the mathematics coordinator at Temple University dealing with the segment of the TTT (Trainers of Teacher Trainers) project held at the Reynolds Elementary School. The stated purpose of this segment was to provide on-the-job experience in the area of elementary school mathematics. The basic program…

This document relates the basic notion of accountability to the preparation and supervision of teachers within the limits of accountability. The paper discusses the following questions: a) What competencies are the responsibility of preservice and in-service education? b) What is the role of supervision in teacher accountability? Of the…

In a description of two kinds of undergraduate courses involving development groups, the author differentiates between one course format that alternates a lecture-laboratory approach and one that makes no distinction between lecture and laboratory components. Both categories, cover a variety of cognitive material such as personality theory,…