A two-year study of students' and physicians' rejecting behaviors during medical interviews found that participation in a workshop on supporting behaviors resulted in a long-term decrease in or abolishment of those behaviors. (MSE)

Discusses qualities necessary for good science education television, presents criteria that can be used by program makers and viewers to judge the outcomes, and describes study that used interviews with teachers and students to evaluate three British educational science programs aimed at 14- to 16-year-olds. (LRW)

Discussion of conditions under which simulation games promote changes in attitudes focuses on identification theory as a predictor of attitude change. Incentive theory and cognitive dissonance theory are discussed, and a study of community college students is described that tested the role of identification in changing attitudes. (LRW)

Provides a detailed account of role of the peripatetic remedial teacher as perceived by those in daily contact with her. Examines the role within an educational context to raise issues about developing the role to accommodate changing expectations resulting from the implementation of the 1981 Education Act (England), in respect to children with…

High school students' misunderstandings of the conceptual machine of the BASIC programming language were examined using a screening test and structured interviews to determine their understanding of fundamental concepts such as variables, assignments, loops, flow and control, and tracing and debugging. (MBR)

This study investigated the delayed effects of LOGO programing on the cognitive abilities and achievement of children in the primary grades. Results of tests administered 18 months after first graders participated in either LOGO computer programing or computer-assisted instruction treatments and interviews five months after testing are reported…

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's report on collegiate education, "College," is discussed by Ernest L. Boyer. The undergraduate experience and quality, college teaching, assessment, the quality of campus life, student development, and general education are discussed. (MLW)

The effects of microcomputer use on preschoolers' knowledge of pre-reading concepts and attitudes toward microcomputers were investigated. Seventy-seven preschoolers were randomly assigned to three treatment conditions: (1) adult-assisted microcomputer instruction; (2) unassisted microcomputer use; and (3) no computer use. Analysis of pretest…

Forty tenth graders from a high achievement track and forty from lower achievement tracks of a suburban high school were interviewed concerning their use of self-regulated learning strategies during class, homework, and study. Fourteen categories of self-regulation strategies were identified from student answers that dealt with six learning…

When the author was in fifth grade, she and the other students took a field trip to a nursing home; each child had to interview an elderly person. She discusses the impact of the assignment on her life to illustrate the effectiveness of field trips and interviews as teaching methods. (RM)

Examined are problems confronted by women who try to rise in social class from their class of origin to a higher class, and the strategies they employ while making this transition. Data are derived from biographical interviews with German women, who as adults achieved the school certificate called the "Abitur." (RM)

A study of the predictive capacity of the medical school admission interview, based on first-year performance, suggests that elimination of the interview did not adverse the medical school's ability to recruit a diverse and academically successful student body. (MSE)

Describes an investigation of whether grades in an intensive French course could be predicted by combining information obtained in a brief interview conducted by the teacher with information from academic records. Results showed that overall grade point average is the best single predictor of performance in foreign language courses. (SED)

A series of interviews with 532 faculty, department heads, and upper-level administrators on 38 campuses revealed attitudes about general and specific elements of faculty vitality and aspects of institutional administration that promote it. (MSE)

Dr. Allen discusses computer based instruction, today's educational software, qualifications for software designers and the importance of the author in the purchaser's view, courseware authoring tools and subject matter, interactive videodiscs, predictions on future hardware characteristics and capabilities, and the microcomputer as a catalyst for…