This module deals with cooperative education student rights and responsibilities as they are specified in the Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 and the Michigan Employee Right to Know Act of 1978. Designed to be a self-paced instructional package, the module includes a pre-test, answer key, scoring instructions, a…

In this document, one of a series of papers commissioned by Foundations (a development project designed to examine the career development needs of students entering the National Technical Institute for the Deaf), the processes of moral development in persons with hearing impairments are examined. The work of J. Piaget is first reviewed, followed…

The emphasis of the new accountability is upon the fact that, regardless of how intense competition among institutions may become, there are certain basic ethical and legal obligations that should pervade student-institutional relations. These are cited in recommendations of two invitational national conferences on consumer protection in…

Fourteen studies were reviewed whose findings indicate that learner control of certain presentation characteristics interacts with certain learner characteristics. Thus, learner control is not a panacea for accomodating individual differences. Instead, some kinds of individual differences probably should be taken into account by teachers and…

Guidelines for students seeking financial aid are provided for six federal programs. General information about seeking financial aid and rights and responsibilities of the student as consumer are outlined. The following federal aid programs are covered: the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program, the Guaranteed Student Loan Program, the…

In the described early field experience program the field experience is included in the introductory professional education course that is offered during the students' junior year. The field component requires that students spend a minimum of 30 hours actively participating in a public school classroom during the semester. Emphasis is placed on…

Students at the University Without Walls (UWW) of the University of Minnesota design their own program by writing a Long Term Degree Plan to describe how they plan to demonstrate their competence in each of UWW's seven graduation criteria. Because students have experienced difficulty in writing the plan, a seminar in process education was…

In this paper the author discusses some of the new approaches for securing student input into school governance. Some of these approaches are the principal's cabinet, the superintendent's cabinet, and the student school board. The author feels, however, that at the present time there are too many attendant obstacles in making students full-fledged…

During the early decades of the twentieth century, there was a gradual shift from educational sports as a forum for non-risk individual participation to team and coach-centered endeavors where an emphasis on winning existed. That shift reflected social changes in the United States as American society itself became highly structured and organized…

In order of their importance in 1961, the administrative outlets for funds for undergraduates were: colleges and universities (70 percent); the federal government (17 percent), state governments (9 percent), and others. In order of importance as sources of funds for graduate support were: the federal government ($200 million), colleges and…

Examines the role of the college student as an active decision-maker in instruction. Eight variables (pacing, reinforcers, contingencies, sequencing, mode, feedback, content and objectives, and discriminative control) are described and discussed in the context of student choice, and issues which student choice highlights are examined. (Editor/JT)

The author contends that research in the social sciences has witnessed a depersonalization of blame for individual misbehavior, and examines the process by which the blame for school discipline problems has been transferred from individual students to external factors. Recommendations are made for future research approaches. (Author/JAC)

In terms of group averages, growth in achievement by an experimental class was 8.56 (856 percent) greater than the growth generated by the control group in a teaching strategy experiment conducted at San Jose State University. Details of the ORPA (Organization, Research, Presentation, Accountability) Teaching Strategy versus the…

Provides guidelines for making correct ethical decisions about what to publish in a student publication. (GW)

Examines how scientific attitudes and vocational development can be facilitated by new teaching models for college studies. These models are based on group work, thematic orientation and flexible structuring of course content, timing and examination. (Author/RK)