The National Program for Acquisition and Cataloging (NPAC) authorized under Title IIC of the Higher Education Act of 1965 is called the Shared Cataloging Program. Under this Act the Library of Congress is authorized to: (1) acquire for its own collections all materials currently published throughout the world that are of value to scholarship and…

The three cultures referred to in the title are: the humanities, the sciences, and the social sciences. The theme of the lecture is comparative librarianship. The comparisons are of public library services in different countries, how they are similar and how they differ. His emphasis is on British libraries with which he is most familiar. The…

Since the medical interview is usually considered to be the basis of all diagnosis and treatment in medicine, this study investigated alternative ways of improving medical interview techniques. To test the hypothesis that the visual (videotape) technique would be more effective than the lecturing or audiotape technique, 12 videotaped interviews…

A point of view on the subject of life-long education is presented. The viewpoint espoused is that the academic community should make an effort to attract to the campus a group of citizens who showed interest in keeping up their education and understanding of contemporary developments. When this program was undertaken, a series of 40 lectures were…

The development of a program designed to improve the teaching effectiveness of faculty members of a new Introductory Psychopathology course at the University of Washington School of Medicine is described. The lecture observation schedule developed was used to assist faculty in self-improvement. A literature review is included. (Editor/JT)

Describes a simple way to demonstrate the principles involved in a drinking water plant. This demonstration developed for a general public lecture can be used in chemistry and biology courses for an ecological and environmental emphasis. (HM)

Several common ideas were discernible in the plenary lectures of the fifth biennial conference on chemical education. Among these were: The decline in university and college enrollments and how to cope with them, how to prepare chemists for changing job markets, and how to improve scientific literacy. (Author/BB)

The form and content of teacher-pupil interaction is shown to be related to pupil distance from the teacher. Pupils seated closer to the teacher are more involved in decision making and question answering while those further away are more likely to be lectured to and less likely to participate in classroom decision making.(JMF)

Results of a study comparing Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) and lecture approaches using 301 community college students indicate that students in a PSI class do not perform better than students using a traditional lecture method, although PSI students scored higher on material learned early in the course. (MB)

Looks at the goals, content and classroom procedures for making an undergraduate course in rhetoric relevant within a recently restructured collegiate environment. (MH)

A Mathematics Colloquium program for broadening the mathematics education of graduate students is described. In the program, pre-colloquium lectures are given to provide enough background material to make the general ideas of the colloquium lecture understandable to the interested graduate student. (MN)

This paper contains part of the text of an address given at the sixth Biennial Conference of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers concerning current developments in the secondary school mathematics area in Australia. A list of strong high school mathematics program syllabi is also given. (MN)

The process of design and construction of a mathematics program based on the interests of children is presented in an address read at the Sixth Biennial Conference of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers. (MT)

Investigates the effect of both trait communication apprehension (CA) and anticipated interaction on student recall of instructional messages. Finds that anticipated interaction elicited higher levels of state anxiety in students with high CA, inhibiting their free recall of a lecture. (MS)

Presents examples of alternative lecture formats, including those that utilize active learner participation, take playful approach, focus on instructional goals and objectives, employ unusual methods for following an outline format; and involve media equipment and entertainment. (MBR)