Combines the summer and fall issues of 1979 for practitioners seeking ideas and information on a broad spectrum of career education programs. Contains abstracts of a variety of career education projects and programs. (JOW)

Describes a Trinity College (Dublin) training program for language teachers based on a foreign language learning experience, in this case attendance at a 12-week course in beginning Russian. Discusses course design and trainees' course evaluations, drawing from comments contained in their class journals and final reports. (MES)

This is the housing section of the University of Illinois project, under contract with the Illinois Office of Education, to provide adult educators with a tool for measuring the proficiency of experienced male or female homemakers who seek high school credit in home economics. (MF)

Literature-searching skills, basic to a pharmacist's ability to use drug literature for problem solving, were investigated regarding (1) the effect of competency-based experiential learning programs for introducing literature-searching skills, and (2) the effect of literature-searching instruction in a pharmacy orientation course. Performance…

In order to give direction to his career and specifically to his remaining year of law school, the author, a law student at Emory University, interrupted his schooling to spend a year in self-selected legal clerkships. His experiences and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of such a program are presented. (JMD)

Two simulations designed to teach probability to middle-school age pupils are presented. The first simulates the one-on-one foul shot simulation in basketball; the second deals with collecting a set of six cereal box prizes by buying boxes containing one toy each. (MP)

The author describes a dialogue with his three-year-old daughter about numbers. He discusses aspects of mathematics education and how his views about how students acquire mathematical knowledge have changed. (MP)

The portfolio method of assessing past experience for the award of academic credit is compared and contrasted to the project-syllabus method. It is suggested that the project-syllabus method is a more appropriate form for evaluating past experience. (Author/SF)

Although new problems are encountered as field experience programs grow larger, the basic principles of assuring educational quality remain the same. One large field experience program, the Washington Center for Learning Alternatives, and the method of educational quality control developed by that program, are described. (Author/SF)

Empathy skill was operationalized using a videotape of client-worker interviews and a questionnaire. Two conditions for the development of empathy skill, (1) an experiential-didactic course, and (2) a structured meditation experience, are described. Positive change in scores was found with meditation attainment. Limitations and implications are…

Research on cross-cultural learning helps to explain some of the variables with which program planners and evaluators must work to make attitudinal and adjustment elements of cross-cultural experiential learning successful. Clear delineation of program objectives (affective, cognitive, behavioral) and on-site contact persons are recommended. (MSE)

Describes the student-centered approach to cooperative education at Montclair State College which evolved in response to a diverse student population. (LRA)

Investigated the relative effectiveness of two curricular approaches to alcohol education. Both experimental groups produced significantly higher levels of responsible attitudes and knowledge about alcohol. In a comparison of group means, the experiential group consistently scored higher in responsible attitudes and lower in negative consequences…

Clinical settings are more important in teacher education than simply as arenas in which meaningful instruction behaviors are practiced. Training of teachers must be viewed as a process of induction into the classroom environment, in which the clients (students) work very powerfully on the trainees. (FG)

Describes the Minority Research Apprentice Program which has placed 200 minority science students in summer apprenticeships in the biomedical research laboratories of some of America's top scientists. (LRA)