Describes a pregraphics course for freshman engineering majors weak in three-dimensional spatial visualization skills. Freshman students scoring less than 60% correct on the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Rotations (PSVT:R) were counseled into the course. Gain scores for students after the course on the PSVT:R were shown to be statistically…

Discusses the ineffectiveness of the lecture method when used with heterogeneous populations. Describes the development of a course designed to be responsive to the way students learn and how they are motivated to learn. (DDR)

Asserts that the inexorable shift to transnational and global legal practice demands a comparable shift in methods of teaching comparative law to move it beyond its current American common law/European civil law myopia. Proposes an introductory course, Law in Comparative Cultures, which exposes students to a panoply of international legal systems.…

Describes how a small team of district teachers created a year-long course for senior honors using world literature to help confront seniors' passage between childhood and adulthood by raising the questions that echo through time and by offering diverse and insightful suggestions. (SG)

Describes the AQA AS-level course 'Science for Public Understanding' and explains its underlying rationale. Shows how a topic-based course can be used to consolidate students' understanding of some scientific explanations and ideas-about-science in a systematic manner. (Author/MM)

Argues that high school teachers have given up on trying to teach equations and mathematics to poorly prepared, inner-city, or very average students. Describes a mathematical problem-solving physics course for all types of students from average to honors. (CCM)

Describes the development of an environmental education course for practicing teacher educators. (Author/CCM)

Examines the pedagogical, psychological, and linguistic principles that were taken into consideration in designing the new Greek syllabus, based on the modern language. One problem that arose in the implementation of the change is examined, namely the continuing predominance of literature in the textbooks. (Author/VWL)

Argues that communication educators as well as those in the education discipline must begin to promote communication training for all teachers. Describes goals, objectives, units, activities, and assignments for a comprehensive communication course for all teachers. (SG)

Describes how the authors developed a course in intercultural communication and, with a majority of non-Western students, adapted critical pedagogy to address the Western biases in the text. Discusses how the course textbook portrays ethnic specimens and subaltern cultures, and built information basis for commercial gain. Notes how other readings…

Describes a chemistry course titled "Writing for Chemists", a junior-level course required of all chemistry and biochemistry majors at California State University (CSU) that covers all of the sections for writing both primary and secondary papers in the chemical sciences as well as the process of literature searching in both computer databases and…

Introduces the development of the interdisciplinary course The Atomic Era which features a unique combination of physics, sociology, and German studies taught jointly by a physicist, a sociologist and a germanist. Addresses and analyzes the objectives of the course, laboratories and demonstrations, instructional goals, assignments, organization,…

Describes the two-course engineering design graphics sequence on introductory design and graphics topics. The first course focuses on conceptual design and the development of visualization and sketching skills while the second one concentrates on detail design and parametric modeling. (Contains 28 references.) (Author/ASK)

Describes a game in which students are rewarded for catching a certain number of mistakes made by their teacher in a semester. Discusses the larger underlying principles that are worth independent consideration. (Author/MM)

Describes an undergraduate chemistry course designed for prospective elementary school teachers. (Contains 18 references.) (YDS)