Twenty teachers of English in Iran Girls' College (Tehran) grouped students homogeneously to attack the problem of overcrowded classes of students with diverse abilities and achievement levels. Hopefully, pupils would identify with their groups and strive competitively for greater proficiency in the English language. School personnel and…

The lack of attention to the student marriage relationship and its impact is documented and guidelines for an outreach program involving married students are presented. Objectives of such a program include: (1) to study student marriages and define more clearly the psychological variables that constitute a growing, healthy marriage, and (2) to…

For a study of students' reaction to the New College program, questionnaires were sent to 504 students who made up the New College entering classes of 1960-1964. There were 203 respondents to the questionnaire which consisted of: 1) a face sheet designed to obtain information regarding educational experience after New College; 2) a rating scale…

The purpose of this study was to determine (1) the differences between college students' literary responses while reading a poem as measured by a free-association technique and their responses in a group discussion, (2) the effects of completing the free-association assignment with a poem on a subsequent discussion of that poem compared to merely…

A Master's degree program in engineering in Portland, Oregon, was taught by faculty members who commuted from the School of Engineering at Oregon State University 80 miles away. The one three-hour meeting per week schedule maintained by this program didn't produce the quality of course that resulted from on-campus instruction by the same…

Several literary models from both contemporary and standard books that influence the adolescent are presented. The discussion is divided into three broad model categories: the question of morality, the search for self, and values and needs. The novel is the principal literary mode discussed, but other genres are also included. The exploration of…

The attitudes and life-style characteristics of 58 undergraduate nonusers of illegal drugs were evaluated through comparisons with 47 regular marijuana users. The nonusers were found to be more settled in their values, more goal-directed, and more involved academically. They also had higher Grade Point Averages. The nonusers appeared to be both…

Designed to assess the effects of self-grading on undergraduate learning and evaluation in a one semester constitutional law course, this study indicated that self-grading had no significant impact on learning but that it did encourage self-graders to evaluate themselves significantly higher than instructor graded students. (Author/DB)

Although students did not recognize Canadian poetry to any important extent, those students who made any differentiation between poems favored the Canadian poems. (DD)

An analysis of the conceptual development of children between the ages of five and six. The interrelationship of such concepts a big, long, small, and short is discussed. (JLH)

College students were asked to indicate whether they guessed, used memory, or thought processes when answering a multiple choice exam. The results indicate that the perceptions students have of what mental function questions require of them could be vital in developing types of questions to stimulate particular cognitive processes. (JMD)

The ecosystem model for assessing student perceptions of their environment was developed by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. The purpose of this report is to discuss the application of the ecosystem model at Arizona State University and to make recommendations concerning how to expedite the model's application. (Author)

The technique of listing behavioral objectives for a teaching syllabus is briefly described. A list of 38 objectives is given for a previously described practical microbiology course and student reaction to them is discussed. Clearly written objectives are considered a powerful tool for the teacher, benefitting both teacher and student. (Author/MA)

Evaluates the Cooperative Experiential Education Program introduced at Marymount College, New York, in 1970. In this plan, the student combines off-campus work with on-campus study. The program's goals are to enhance the classroom study of the student, help her identify long-range career objectives, and assist the student in locating employment…

In this study, designed to explore the relationship between pleasure and cognitive challenge, 32 normal first grade children and 32 MA-matched familial mentally retarded children were given puzzles representing four difficulty levels. (Author/SB)