Describes experiences of launching and publishing a student sociology journal at Wayne County Community College in Detroit for the past four years. Recommends it as a rewarding educational experience that should be done at all schools. (Author/CK)

Reports on a teaching technique that emphasizes the logical, sequential developments involved in business report writing by having students follow a model business report as they work on their own research projects. (RL)

Suggestions are listed for using similes as bases for learning activities in science. Adages such as "as wise as an owl,""as busy as a bee," and "as blind as a bat" are discussed as topics for library and reading skills, science, and communicative arts. (CS)

Describes the techniques used in an English methods class to make informal researchers of the in-service teachers attending the class. (DD)

"Trick" your students and treat them to an uncustomary classroom celebration. (Editor)

Suggests primary sources for studying local ethnic groups when conventional textbooks omit or distort information. Primary sources include church and census records, city directories, oral tradition, pictorial records, programs, and artifacts such as statues and plaques. (AV)

Proposes an examination of the motives in having biochemistry students perform practical laboratory exercises. Suggests that a typical course should be viewed as a progression of skills development culminating in a final year, open-ended research project that demands that the skills be used competently and efficiently. (DDR)

Describes the solution to a geometric problem by two ninth-grade mathematicians using The Geometer's Sketchpad computer software program. The problem was to divide any line segment into a regular partition of any number of parts, a variation on a problem by Euclid. The solution yielded two constructions, one a GLaD construction and the other using…

Describes a student research project that determined concentrations of lead in water drawn from selected drinking fountains and in selected soil samples on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (18 references) (DDR)

Offers 10 suggestions for high school teachers who want to take their high school students to a college or university library. (SR)

Discusses how one college professor incorporated the voices of marginalized students into her course, "Race, Culture, and Class." Ex-gang member students were invited to participate in an ethnographic research project in which they interviewed gang members from their communities and shared findings with their more privileged classmates.…

Notes that student journalists face a challenge in gaining the respect needed from sources to glean a high quality of information. Contends that in addition to researching the specifics of articles before interviews, part of the preparation needs to be classroom instruction on source cultivation and interpersonal skills. Provides 10 commonsense…

Outlines the attempts of two fictional journalism students to learn the correct way to interview. Emphasizes the importance of doing homework and researching multiple angles. Explains that thinking of questions and taking careful notes are important steps in the process. (PM)

Investigates students' (N=277) performance and the effects of pre-training on tasks rated high in ambiguity, in particular those where the solution to the tasks cannot be arrived at through predictable algorithms. Findings show pre-training to be a significant factor in improving students' ability to plan and carry out open-ended investigations.…

Reports on a study that tested the efficacy of an information retrieval system output summary and visualization scheme for undergraduates taking a Vietnam War history course who were in Kuhlthau's Stage 3 of researching a history essay. No significant difference was found between the mean marks for students in the visualization scheme group or the…