Offers suggestions for social studies teachers to incorporate reading into social studies courses. Teachers should determine student and textbook reading levels, provide supplementary reading materials, involve reading specialists, and motivate students to read social studies materials. (Author/DB)

Study habits and memorization strategies were found to differ in fourth grade good readers and poor readers. The good readers also achieved higher recall. With training in efficient mnemonic strategies, however, the poor readers performed as well as the good readers. (GDC)

During the last year, Alameda County Office of Education has contributed much of its creative energy to the field testing of a process to generating competencies that encourages school community cooperation. The process was tested in San Lorenzo Unified School District. Describes how it was done through a series of meetings involving students,…

A survey of news broadcasters reveals that they believe that effective career preparation should represent a balance of skills training, broad liberal arts education, and internship experience. (GW)

Structured Learning Therapy (SLT) teaches aggressive adolescents prosocial skills (negotiation, self-relaxation, and anger control) by modeling, role playing, social reinforcement, and transfer of training. This article summarizes initial application of SLT with psychiatric clients, includes guidelines for improving trainee-trainer-treatment…

Survey of teachers reveals that high need competencies were learned on the job, not in college. (Ed.)

Reports on an undergraduate laboratory course designed to provide instruction and practice in the intellectual skills of application, analysis, and synthesis, and in Piaget's formal operations. A 10-item exam used to measure these skills is included as an appendix. (Author/CP)

Conceptual background of current knowledge dissemination and utilization strategies are sketched in terms of three value orientations and four models of innovation diffusion. Future diffusion strategies in education are seen to be active and participative, building local capacities to find, review, adapt, and adopt locally relevant educational…

Verbal skills training is one aspect of accounting education not usually included in secondary and postsecondary accounting courses. The author discusses the need for verbal competency and methods of incorporating it into accounting courses, particularly a variation of the Keller plan of individualized instruction. (MF)

During an academic year, approximately 60 beginning teachers are assigned to classrooms in the Barrow and Gaines Elementary field centers in Clarke County, Georgia. A checklist consisting of eleven competencies with specific indicators is used to evaluate the performance of each student. (Author)

Describing a student historical trip with an environmental perspective, this article evaluates program objectives (evaluation of lifestyles, living in close proximity to the natural environment, comparison of natural and man-made landscapes, development of a sense of community identity, decision making skills for environmental management, and…

A technique developed at SUNY at Stony Brook measures changes in second-year medical students' ability to recognize psychopathology following an educational program in psychobiology. It compares ratings of videotaped interviews by the students to the ratings of the interviews made by the faculty preceptors participating in the teaching program.…

An extensive written examination in pediatric clinical knowledge has been used to compare pediatric nurse practitioners with medical students and residents in pediatrics. Results of the study indicate that the PNPs were comparable in most areas except clinical pathology to the students and residents, sometimes even surpassing them. (LBH)

Encourages elementary and secondary school mathematics teachers to foster skill development in approximation, estimation, interpolution and orders of magnitude. (CP)

Examines problems relating to curriculum for vocational-technical secondary schools in the Soviet Union. Major problems center on developing a curriculum which is relevant to modern technology, student needs, and demands of a communist society. (Author/DB)