Developed by the National Bureau of Standards, OMNITAB is a simplified computer language designed to permit the novice user to solve basic statistical functions after less than an hour of instruction. It was hoped that by providing students in introductory statistics courses with an easily understood computer language, fears of number operations…

After about twenty years of enthusiastic inclusion of both communications courses in college programs and sessions on communications at meetings of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, interest in communications courses seemed to disappear, although the courses often were retained but were given new titles, such as rhetoric.…

The purpose of this practicum was to test the belief that a need existed for a two-year associate degree program at Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College in the area of Human Services. A questionnaire was developed and mailed to 25 community agencies, of which 78 percent responded. Results of the survey showed that nine of the responding agencies…

The first part of this project report, Appendix 1, is the curriculum outline which has been used for the author's course in Economic Development in Latin America. It takes a preponderantly problem-oriented and sectional approach. The main units, following an introductory survey of the Latin American region and its people and institutions, are:…

Much of the responsibility for poor teaching of history at the secondary level lies with those who teach college history rather than those who teach teachers. One approach to new methods of history instruction is the development and use of inquiry models. Crucial to this approach is the involvement of students and teacher in model building--an…

This study was directed toward determining if uniformity existed in the role of the fine arts administrative supervisor and the fine arts program in the Illinois public junior colleges. Answers to the following questions were sought: (1) Is there a uniform interpretation of terminology among the fine arts administrative supervisors to describe…

A directory of college television courseware lists offerings in curriculum areas such as: social sciences, biology, black studies, business, mathematics, sciences, computer science, consumer protection, creative arts, drug education, ecology, engineering, humanities, physics, nursing, nutrition, religion, and vocational education, etc. Each course…

The purpose of this study was to secure the opinions of educators and practitioners as to how helpful advertising educators have been in the past, their potential for help in the future, and, based on this response, how they can be helpful. Members of the Advertising Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and of the American…

In the first section four articles illustrate the basic concepts of the role of the library in college instruction. The library-college movement is discussed; Swarthmore College's "Teaching Library" in particular is examined. The second section contains four articles about actively established programs in library instruction. Following…

This report and its appendices are the results of a study of recruitment and retention "problems" in the various engineering technology programs offered by the community colleges of the State University of New York (SUNY). The focus of the report and all but one of the appendices is upon the recruitment problem. There are five sections…

This paper defines and develops the use of instructional objectives in economic education. Such teaching technique is hypothesized to improve economic understanding through improved learning efficiency and evaluation of learning achieved. Instructional objectives are defined and exemplified, both in general literature and specific practice. In…

A decision to change Indiana teacher certification requirements to include 6 semester hours of preparation in teaching reading produced a need for increased reading courses in all of the state's teacher education programs. This conference paper reports the means used to develop such a program. Initially all 23 Indiana colleges with teacher…

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the present status of programs in 2-year college physical education departments. Questionnaires were sent to a national sample of 140 institutions; 74 or 53% were returned. Besides noting the size of the departments, the type of governance of the schools, and the size of the college communities, data on…

This book discusses various approaches to the teaching of composition from classical and contemporary sources. It is intended to give a comprehensive coverage of the various kinds of oral and written themes students are expected to create in college and high school. The book can be used as a basic text in college composition and rhetoric, for…

Television has been used too much as a classroom aid--practitioners have been content to pervert the new media with old, harmful uses when the new media could be used to change education. If a medium can have as great an impact upon the communicant and the communicator as does the content conveyed, then the modern media are not just tools divorced…