The Demonstration Program in Special Education is the 1972 Distinguished Achievement Award Entry from Cheyney State College, Cheyney, Pennsylvania. This laboratory-based program facilitates the attainment of certification requirements in mental retardation for postbaccalaureate students. The program is reviewed as an alternative route to…

This review of the literature was undertaken by the author with the hope that he would garner some knowledge which would be practically useful in using group work with underachieving junior college students. Of the studies reviewed, two seemed to offer ideas which could be of direct, functional benefit. One of these was a report of research which…

An analysis is presented of classroom lessons where the behavior of the instructor and also of the small group under instruction is examined. (JD)

An instructional model, labeled "direct instruction," which contains general principles that can form the basis for in-service teacher training in teaching basic skills in reading and mathematics, is described. (JD)

Two groups of severely retarded individuals (9-25 years old) were trained on a word-recognition task, one group trained individually, and the other group taught simultaneously by one teacher. (Author/CL)

This study was undertaken to develop an affective, small-group experience for helping children cope with death and to investigate the effectiveness of the experience in reducing children's anxieties about death. The generally positive results suggest that affective death education experiences such as this one should be made available to children.…

An elective weeked seminar offered by the Department of Community Medicine for first- and second-year students, has been developed at Michigan State. Its objectives are to identify and clarify personal sexual attitudes and values; to increase the ability to talk comfortably about sexual matters; and to discover and correct inadequacies or…

This article promotes the use of the socratic tutorial in making the study of physiology more appropriate to the needs of medical students. Data are also presented on the use of tutorials in physiology. (MR)

Offers suggestions for classroom activities which provide a vehicle for rechanneling hostile feelings creatively. (HOD)

Four severely retarded females participated in a group instruction program involving designated trainer roles and both individual-directed and total group-directed procedures. Participants acquired the skills of stamping addresses on envelopes, successfully generalized the skill across an untrained type of envelope, and maintained the skill over…

Examined 13 training groups for which developmental patterns were previously established to test hypotheses relating individual development to group development. Results support hypothesis that changes in social constructs used by participants after training to describe themselves and others are a function of specific developmental patterns of the…

Some of the special challenges associated with evaluation and grading in the large class are discussed. Suggestions for evaluation methods include seeking clarity, reducing the stress of test administration, giving feedback, guarding against errors in record keeping, and returning exams efficiently and with respect. (MLW)

Describes a large-group simulation, titled "Lump Sum," to demonstrate decision-making processes in multicultural groups. Simulation directions, results, and supporting publications are presented. (Author)

Analysis of reciprocal peer tutoring combined with group reinforcement contingencies on the arithmetic performance of 12 underachieving fifth-graders indicated that the intervention increased the students' arithmetic performance to a level indistinguishable from their classmates during treatment and 12-week follow-up. Students also increased peer…

Briefly defines political education, discusses why it is necessary, and clarifies its basic aims. Suggests that a hierarchy of four levels of political education exists. Canvasses three options for education delivery and closes with recommendations for education providers. (Author/CH)