A study was conducted to determine whether students could self-administer, self-score, and self-interpret the California Occupational Preference Survey (COPS) with the aid of a multi-media device as effectively as similar students could take the survey in the conventional group method which involves counselor administration, scoring, and…

Providing students with the opportunity to establish their own learning goals is an essential factor in stimulating them to assume learning responsibility. Since the experience may be new for students, careful teacher planning for the first day is necessary and includes such preparations as creating a guideline of objectives, arranging the…

Recognizing that the enrichment of the child's language arts experience is a prime educational responsibility, this booklet presents language learning materials which focus on teaching as developing awareness, widening the pupil's breadth of understanding, correcting poor habits, and cultivating positive attitudes toward language learning.…

Student rights encompass all specific rights which the courts recognize as being vested in students. These may be derived from applicable Federal, State, and/or local laws, including school regulations. On June 22, 1973, an ad hoc committee (50 percent American Indian) was convened in Albuquerque, New Mexico to review a special report form…

This document reviews the 1972 conference for new science department chairmen at public institutions held at Snowmass-at-Aspen, Colorado, June 1972. Highlights of the conference cover three major aspects: the chairman within the college structure; the chairman, his faculty and staff; and the chairman and his students. The first section emphasizes…

This paper considers the narrow goals characteristic of most accountability programs, discusses methods for transcending these limited goals (linking goals to broad society values), and suggests steps that supervisors can take to implement accountability in an open system. The author argues that students, administrators, and teachers must be…

Discusses the need for the school press to attempt to bring about constructive changes in student government; outlines four editorial objectives that the student press should aim for in its coverage of student government. (GW)

The author reports on a community studies course which gives students a chance to taste adult responsibilities. (Editor)

States that it is possible and desirable to grant academic freedom to students and considers four possible criticisms that might be associated with giving students the responsibility for determining their own school activities. (Author/RK)

Notes that lacking in almost every debate on accountability is the premises that education is a two way process. Learning involves students as well as teachers, administrators and school systems. Teachers and students, schools and pupils, and the educatee and learning are married, and one cannot exist without the other. (Author/AM)

Legal and ethical aspects of student fee refunds are examined, and the educational institution's ethical obligation to provide a forum for conflicting viewpoints is discussed. (MSE)

A case study of a mainstreamed neurologically-impaired, emotionally-disordered, and hyperactive 12-year-old illustrates the efficacy of a student self-evaluation program (featuring token economy procedures) in decreasing out-of-seat behavior and inappropriate verbal behavior and increasing task completion. (CB)

Issues concerning the care of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) that need to be addressed in the medical literature include the need for education of medical trainees about AIDS and the question of whether medical students should be subjected to the same risks as licensed medical personnel. (MSE)

Describes a student mediator program developed in elementary schools in San Francisco and New York City that successfully trains students to mediate conflict resolutions between students. A key to developing such programs is to educate the students in how the system works before getting into the process. Includes a resource list. (MD)

Describes the development and success of a program that allows children to care for animals in the classroom and at home. Weekend leanding of animals to children is presented as a way of increasing a child's experience and sense of responsibility. (SB)