This article is about people who work in American industry and about how educators and trainers prepare these workers for continuing employability in a changing workplace. The discussion is based on one private sector business and how that company responds to these issues. (CT)

Describes consumer feedback system procedure for gathering accountability data on school psychology interns which involved soliciting feedback, through questionnaires from teachers, parents, and students with whom interns worked. Explains development, implementation, and utilization of system, explores drawbacks, and presents benefits to interns…

Discusses how activities focusing on food can give preschool children practice in using science process skills and also can provide experiences in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains. Lists activities which aim to develop thinking skills, to address health habits, and to foster art and music skills. (ML)

Explains an investigation which examined Nigerian students' (N=200) ability to respond to depth cues and to visualize the effects of rotations. Study results indicated that performance on cues tests correlated significantly with performance on rotation tests suggesting that cues influence students' ability to visualize the effects of performing…

Consists of an interview with Pete Haralovich, owner of a repair shop for foreign cars, who has worked at a variety of occupations. Highlights the need for a vocational emphasis in education. (CH)

Investigated secondary-level students' (N=66) understanding of three-dimensional structures in biology. Results suggest that student performance is highly correlated with age, scientific ability, and sex. Suggestions for instructional improvement in spatial relationships are offered. (ML)

The author states that business educators can make a concerted effort to fuse consumer and economic topics and applications into instructional programs. They can make available to students individualized instructional materials to be used on their own time to improve their personal business skills and consumer economics understanding. (CT)

The University of Maine School of Law's cooperative program with a local legal clinic to provide law students with training in and experience with counseling techniques in a field experience program, to help clients solve complex problems, is described and discussed. (MSE)

Outlines activities for each of eight science process skills (observing, using space/time relationships, classifying, using numbers, measuring, communicating, predicting, and inferring). Directions for the activities (all of which use sea shells) are included. (DH)

This study compared the effects of programed-test instruction and computer-assisted instruction on achievement in 11 areas of English grammar. In contrast to the findings of previous research on the subject, significant differences in achievement were found favoring the programed-text method over the computer-assisted method. (Author/CT)

Eight steps of the skill training process and 10 rules of learning psychology are discussed as techniques for increasing training effectiveness. The eight steps are: include preevaluate, plan, prepare, present, perform, practice, evaluate performance, and follow up. The 10 rules concern motivation, use of the senses, receptivity, association,…

Determined whether significant differences exist in cognitive achievement and in the level of acquisition of practical skills among ninth-grade students (N=1025) in cooperative, competitive, and individualistic learning conditions in science laboratories. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for more productive science laboratory…

Examined the effectiveness of cooperative, competitive, and individualistic interaction patterns in promoting acquisition of science process skills during biology laboratory activities. Results (from 720 secondary students--352 girls and 368 boys) show that competitive interaction was superior to cooperative and individualistic interaction…

An economics program designed for junior high and senior high school students indicates that learning economic content tends to improve a student's ability in social studies skills and, indirectly, also improves language arts and quantitative skills. (Author/RM)

The author critiques Smith's assertions that (1) there is such a thing as elitism in an educational context, (2) artwork can engender a heightened experience and (3) the careful choosing of exemplary pieces of art as instructional materials for art education is necessary to help students achieve the aesthetic experience. (RM)