Describes a course based on laboratory use of three skills as a way of teaching a general method of problem solving. (DF)

Part 2 of a two part series on career planning in college, this article describes the course offered at Augustana College (Illinois) to help their liberal arts students develop awareness of their interests, abilities, and opportunities through testing sessions, class discussions, occupational exploration and field investigation. Course syllabus…

Tape recordings of lectures were made available to all students. Teacher comments on an individual student's tests were made available on tape to each student. Student and faculty reactions support continuing and expanding the program. (TS)

A committee in Ladue, Missouri, comprised of six elementary teachers and an elementary principal, developed a drug education course for sixth grade students. Background details of the proposal are given, as is a sample lesson. (OH)

Describes a course offered to students, faculty, counselors, administrators, and employees, which is designed to generate thinking regarding student use of occupational information in making career decisions. (SB)

The James Report is remarkable for the infrequency of its references to training students in colleges of education to teach children to read, and even more for its lack of explicit proposals. (Author)

Discusses the use of a set of computer programs (FORTRAN IV) in an introductory mechanics course for science majors. One laboratory activity is described for determining the coefficient of restitution of a glider on an air track. A student evaluation for the lab is included in the appendix. (Author/TS)

The teacher's role changes from a presenter of content to a diagnostician of learning experiences in individualized instruction. Common objections to the use of individualized instruction are discussed with reasons to overcome each objection. (Author/TS)

With the present knowledge about how the need for achievement is learned and how it operates, it is possible to design technical courses to stimulate this motive in engineering students and to develop desirable engineering action strategies for a wide variety of content. A sample application is presented. (Author/TS)

Experiments are designed with application to phenomena of the real world for use in a third-quarter introductory college physics course in wave motion, sound, and light. The computer is used to process and analyze experimental data and to extend experimental observations through simulation. (Author/TS)