Advice is given to the individual college about three main kinds of variables to take into account in analyzing all the economic effects of programs for awarding credit to students in recognition of prior learning: process variables, student variables, and institutional variables. (Author/MSE)

Life/work planning can be an individualized process for self-analysis, decision, and action. It uses the same approach for any experience desired, by considering an individual's skills, goals, and values and by combining work, learning, and adventure. (MSE)

A broad-based task force at the University of Delaware has systematically developed both a theoretical and a programmatic model of career development. From its findings a coordinated, universitywide career development program with an experiential component has been implemented. (MSE)

A description of a new program for legal education is described which combines classroom simulations of lawyering tasks and skills with a series of externships with practitioners. Traditional classes for learning the substantive knowledge of the law are conducted in conjunction with the experiential aspects. (Author/MLW)

An institution's chief academic officer can encourage faculty to be responsive to student enthusiasm for experiential learning. Faculty participation in policy formation should be encouraged, keeping these standards close to all other educational standards. (MSE)

Undergraduates can play a large role in their peers' experiential learning. A peer facilitator program must use sound principles of recruitment, training, supervision, and evaluation, and can have both immediate and lasting benefits for the students involved. (MSE)

Research on the conceptual notions of fractions held by students at various levels of schooling is discussed. A method of approach to instructing students on fractions that seems to hold considerable promise is also covered in detail. (MP)

Research evidence has pointed to the efficacy of integrating academic subject matter with movement experiences for children. Since language is the most important skill children learn in school, a methodology which uses learning centers, simulations, games, and other learning modes involving movement needs to be developed. (JN)

Reports how new professionals in one institution experienced the three first-year tasks--job mastery, social adjustment and professional development. (Author)

Presents four experiential excercises based on Native American culture for use in education, communication training, and counseling. These excercises are intended as vehicles for personal growth and aids to learning about Native American culture. (RC)

Describes an experiential activity in which students enrolled in an interdisciplinary (history and anthropology) prehistory course at Leeward Community College (Hawaii) could simulate prehistoric conditions in a remote area. Presents a rationale based upon the influence of experiential learning on self-esteem and academic success of…

Claiming that as educators have developed alternatives to traditional education they have also thrown out the babies of cultural insight with the bathwater of educational bureaucracy, this paper explores two heresies--the "learning by doing" and "reforming by doing" heresies--that limit and may ultimately threaten the…

Introducing exemplary theory and research findings bearing upon adult experiential learning, this article describes three emerging learning models that are "active" oriented. Implications for the future in terms of individual learning and postsecondary institutions are highlighted. (Author/DS)

In general, "hurt" individuals emerged from programs involving here-and-now social interaction, confrontation, rejection, low structure but with some support, and anxious trainers. Positive outcome was related to programs involving low dynamism, low confrontation, little interpersonal feedback, and high structure with nonanxious…

Calls for increased and systematic efforts in educational research to provide for meeting the new tasks of education. Enumerates five types of changing conditions that affect schools and colleges today. Emphasizes that educational development, evaluative research, and wide utilization of new knowledge are essential to the attainment of new…