In this article the reader is launched into the story of how the educational village called Parkland Community College came to be. (Author/RK)

Discusses the general design and operation of a quantitative analysis laboratory which is relevant to the student's career objectives and provides reliable and objective criteria for judging student performance. Included are a list of core experiments and a description of student responses. (CC)

Student perceptions of their behaviors in graded courses were compared with those in courses where they received written evaluation. While they reported working equally hard and being equally anxious, they did more of the reading in the evaluation courses and "got more out of" the graded ones. "Getting something out of" a…

Evaluations were obtained with the same questionnaire item in 1968, 1969, 1970, and 1972 at Carnegie-Mellon University. Evaluations varied by drug, but were predominantly "beneficial and helpful" (marijuana, hallucinogens, tranquilizers and barbiturates) or had "no particular effect" (amphetamines, beer, liquor, tobacco, and narcotics). (Author)

Satire appears to be one of the least attractive forms of humorous literature because many readers feel it encompasses negative and ill-mannered comic devices. By virtue of the fact that satire is not considered polite literature, it rarely makes its way into the planned literary curricula until students enter high school English courses. In this…

The objective of this study was to identify, describe, and appraise existing behavior-oriented, vandalism-prevention programs using a case-study approach. This report summarizes an investigation of three programs in Ontario (Canada): Project PRIDE (Pupils Responsible in Determining their own Environment); Operation Aware; and a Diversion program.…

David Bleich's work in reader response and James Britton's composition research provide a theoretical justification for the use of composition in the literature class and for the use of literature in the writing class. Britton has found that talking about writing is valuable since talk is more expressive than writing. In the literature class…

THIS STUDY ATTEMPTED TO EXAMINE THE POSSIBILITY OF INCORPORATING CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION INTO LECTURES PRESENTED THROUGH TELEVISION OR RELATED MODES OF INSTRUCTION. SUBJECT AREAS PROGRAMED WERE SPEECH AND STATISTICS. THE FIRST STUDIES WERE DIRECTED TOWARD THE ROLE OF "BREAKS" IN PRESENTATIONS THAT PERMITTED…