Results indicate that systematic efforts to create positive attitudes toward police among high school students through lectures, discussion, a ride-a-long program, and an incarceration program were effective, especially when coupled with experiential activities and follow-up work carried out in Law XI classes for grades 11 and 12. (CM)

Believing that confinement of students within the same four walls does not lead to the best learning, a sixth-grade teacher took his students 20 miles into the country to work on their science lessons, where they used all of their senses in a unique hands-on farm environment. (Author/KC)

Argues that Cutter-Sanborn in the classroom is insufficient preparation for technical services librarians who will be dealing with automated systems. "Teaching libraries" are recommended as the principal instrument for bridging the gap between abstraction and practicality. (LLS)

Try to learn all you can about a plant in the winter. As the season changes, you can see what the dried seed pod is like in bloom. You are a convert if you notice a spectacular show of summer wildflowers and wonder what sort of winter weed will result. (Author/CM)

Presents a conceptual model that relates the range of types of experiential groups to their potential learning outcome. Attempts to relate group process and likely skill acquisition through participation in the group process. Tested model by considering applicability to a range of group learning processes. (RC)

The rationale for having health care practitioners teach students includes the optimal education of the students and continuing education for the practitioners themselves. Some goals and objectives for practitioner-instructors are provided, and instructional techniques utilized by optometric practitioner-instructors are described. (MLW)

Describes monetary and nonmonetary costs and benefits of university-sponsored paraprofessional training courses which utilize community facilities and staff. The specific program described involved undergraduate psychology students as tutors in a residential treatment program for behaviorally disturbed adolescents. (KC)

The problems in granting experiential learning credit and the exchange and use of such credit are discussed. Because of the shift in attention from traditional curricula to nontraditional programming and services, many problems exist for both the institutions and the adult students returning to school. (MLW)

Accrediting agencies can assume a leadership role in the recognition of prior learning experiences by endorsing the concept, assuring that good practices are followed, providing for the orientation and training of accrediting teams, and encouraging institutional review of policies and procedures. A statement endorsed by three national associations…

The composite-portfolio approach, combining all major systems of assessing prior learning of adults for degree credits, is described as exemplified by methods of Empire State College of the State University of New York. Illustrations include evaluation statements, outline of an actual degree program, and an evaluation policy statement. (MSC)

There are serious disparities between career development theories and reality for student workers and adult occupation changers. A change in the focus of both experiential educators and career development theorists is required. (MSE)

While the experiential learning mode is a powerful one for Blacks, it will not meet their needs until new content is allowed to emerge from the Black experience rather than be imposed by the dominant culture. (MSE)

The panoramic approach to careers assumes that skills are transferable from one career to another, and that career change can be a natural and productive process. The liberal arts disciplines have an important function in such an interdisciplinary approach. (MSE)

The coworker approach as it has been applied to a graduate field education unit is described. This approach was initiated as a treatment aid in meeting the needs of large multiproblem families and groups as well as serving as a form of observed interview for beginning graduate students. (Author/MLW)

If distributive educators are concerned with providing the best training available, cooperative vocational education must not be viewed as an add-on to the distributive education program. The cooperative program can provide the opportunity students need to hone the skills, knowledge, and attitudes initially developed within the local distributive…