This workshop module is designed to increase teachers' understanding of the resistance they are likely to encounter from their students when introducing emotionally laden content (e.g., issues of stereotyping and sex bias), and to provide them with strategies for preventing, dealing with, and reacting to student resistance. A booklet for use in…

A study was conducted (1) to develop a more comprehensive theoretical framework for exploring the nature and process of response to literature, (2) to develop an integrated schema for analyzing responses, and (3) to apply this theory and schema to the responses of fifth and eighth grade students to two different kinds of texts. Subjects were ten…

The described inservice teacher education program is designed for teachers at the secondary and junior college level who are interested in understanding and encouraging students' creative responses to literature. Included in this descriptive report are the scope and sequencing of topics and activities and resources used in the program. Ordering…

Senior English students, in spite of themselves, respond to Dickens both critically and emotionally. Impressed by Dickens'"artistry of style," they nonetheless disagree with each other over whether his characters are believable and whether the exaggeration of character traits is an effective device. The deepest level of understanding…

Social psychological research in education has focused mainly on the investigation of those variables that may influence academic achievement. However, the school functions as an agent of socialization, and, therefore, it seems reasonable to suggest that social reactions should also be investigated as an outcome of the schooling process. The…

In order to gain an overall view of student attitudes toward Waubonsee Community College (WCC), determine the strong and weak aspects of WCC, and provide a data base for later comparisons, a standard Educational Testing Service survey instrument was administered to a random sample of about 650 WCC students. The survey instrument used was Student…

The critical incident technique was used to identify several environmental dimensions relevant to the assessment of a college library, in this case the Cook Library of Towson State College, Maryland. Students were asked to fill out forms describing positive and negative encounters with the library and library staff and to complete a general…

The purposes of this study were to examine the degree of comprehension shown by a group of college students when listening to a lecture at the normal rate of 175 words per minute and at the time-compressed rate of 275 words per minute for forty minutes, and to assess students' attitudes toward the new medium of time-compressed speech by means of a…

The efficiency of using games presented on the PLATO IV instructional system to provide remedial mathematics training for Basic Electricity/Electronics School trainees was tested. Two learning tasks which provide the most difficulty for students were selected and instructionally programed for the PLATO IV system. Drill and practice routines for…

This report is a followup of Wildcat Welcome Week held at Kansas State University in the Fall, 1968. The report is based on 237 questionnaires correctly completed by new students who attended and participated in Welcome Week Activities. Of the eight sessions which were attended by the largest number of students, five were recreational and three…

This book is a transcript of a forum involving men who have dealt directly and variously with the problem of student protest. In the introduction, the overall problems are viewed as falling into three general categories: (1) student rights; (2) questions of violence and coercion; and (3) the civil liberties aspects of both. Specific considerations…

Criticism against the application of Skinnerian programed instruction techniques to foreign language learning is advanced, while the development of a largely self-instructional guided learning program with live teachers and other students is advocated. Major attention is directed to an explanation of the principles of programed instruction, the…

Two studies were conducted to investigate the relationship between Erikson's concept of ego identity and student's attitudes toward college. The results of Study 1 indicated that students who were in the process of going through an identity crisis over occupational choice had the least favorable evaluations of their education, while students who…

This book helps to alleviate the problem of finding specific books for each child by taking into consideration the child's reading abilities, interests, and personal problems. The many factors which influence children's reactions to books are spelled out as well as the effect of physical makeup and format upon children's choices. The nature of the…

Most of this 10th-grade teaching unit on Robinson's "Richard Cory" is made up of sample teacher questions and student answers which lead students to think about values. Other sections include definitions of tools for poetry and analysis, notes on Robinson's life, and a list of poems on "successful living." A five-page…