Warns that the leverage made possible through widespread use of vouchers and performance contracting can make education a less certain product that will have exercised its influence beyond the point of recall for a generation of students. (JF)

Describes the preparation, structure and experimental testing of an examination designed to test student achievement in the subsidiary German course at the Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry, one of several subsidiary language courses aimed at giving Modern Language students a sound working knowledge of a third language. (FB)

The primary goal of this study was to determine the degree of support for cognitive balance formulations of inference processes in hypothetical social situations using a procedure that controls for certain other systematic biases that may affect inferences." (Author)

Using a fixed-choice procedure subjects were conditioned to emit personal reference statements by two experimenters functioning high on the dimensions of empathy, positive regard, and genuineness and two low-functioning experimenters. Comparison of learning slopes of conditioned subjects with a control group supported the efficacy of facilitative…

Describes a new "discovery-oriented" laboratory course in physics for college freshmen. The subject matter was Newtonian mechanics with calculus. The aim was to teach experimental methods from design of the experiment, testing hypotheses and presentation of final report. The laboratory was successful in most of its objectives and got moderately…

Describes three of many uses to which the desk-top computer has been put in the introductory physics laboratory. The three uses involve an AC circuit laboratory, an equipotential mapping experiment, and an N-slit diffraction experiment. Typical desk-top computer-produced theory plots are shown. (LC)