This study represents one of the first major summative evaluations of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS), a federally funded, six-year elementary science program. An instrument was designed for measuring the effects of SCIS on the stated goal of the curriculum, the development of scientific literacy. Subjects were rural sixth-grade…

A central problem in teacher education is the lack of curriculum integration in both competency-based and traditional teacher preparation programs. Curriculum integration is achieved when students are able to perceive a meaningful relationship between what they have learned in the different educational experiences in the program, and between those…

The purpose of the present study was to compare the scores of disruptive and nondisruptive middle school students (grades five through eight) on professed and inferred academic self concept. The Florida Key and the school-academic subscore of the Coopersmith Self Esteem Inventory were used to obtain scores on a population of 3,254 students…

The study determined whether a residential outdoor education program in Rockford, Illinois provided a long lasting effect on those students who as 5th graders participated in a week long experience in 1963 or 1966. The hypotheses developed were: outdoor educational experiences provide a long lasting effect on those who have had the experience;…

Author challenged educators to change their educational viewpoints, and further suggested that society as a whole review its cultural patterns into viewing education as a cradle to the grave activity. (Editor/RK)

The paper proposes a curriculum development system for career education with the jobs skills that students will need as the basis for specifying behavioral objectives. It discusses job tasks, educational outcomes, learning experiences, and evaluation and includes two tables: (1) a classification of verbs related to a cognitive taxonomy and (2)…

Among other things, a general education is the habit of questioning. It transcends the more narrow limitations of a specific discipline. A core curriculum needs to be prescribed that consists of a variety of special interdisciplinary courses or ones especially organized around unifying interdisciplinary problems. (SW)

A seminar for high school teachers in Argentina presented the socio-affective method for teaching international relations. The method involves an experience-centered curriculum based on the hypothesis that a better understanding of oneself gained through experience promotes better understanding of other peoples and countries. (Author/AV)

Subjects in a T-group tend to decrease reactive attributions. They are perceived as having learned to act, rather than observe and react. T-group change is conjecture. Some learning transfer from group to external environment is expected. (MFD)

Examines a number of problems raised by the practice among many colleges and universities of granting academic credit for what is generally termed "life experience". (Author/RK)

It is estimated that by 1980 11 million people older than 35 will be studying for bachelor's degrees on campuses throughout the country. Considers what happens to these midlife students when they take a backward leap over the generation gap, landing in an environment that has traditionally been the preserve of the young. (Author/RK)

Explores college students' subjective definitions of classroom learning situations and the effects of those definitions on the amount of learning that actually takes place. Concludes that students do not always perceive the classroom as a learning arena and that interaction with instructors does not necessarily imply learning. (Author/AV)

Describes the experiences of a sixth grade history class in learning about archaeology by planning and executing a small local dig. Offers advice on class preparation, excavation procedures, follow-up work, and the display of artifacts. Includes eight photographs of classroom and field work activities. (AEM)

Individualism in American culture makes students ignorant of world issues. Educators must change the students' intercultural perspectives. ASF intercultural programs offer youth an opportunity to live in another culture. The results include the following: (1) better appreciation of foreign culture; (2) ability in a foreign language; (3) more…

Offers characteristics that mark positive home and school environments for the literacy development of young children. (HOD)