This paper summarizes findings of studies about factors that encourage teacher education faculty to produce research throughout their careers. Steps schools of education can take to foster research interests in graduate students and young faculty members are suggested. (PP)

A study by an undergraduate pharmacy student to gain experience in research methodology and to enhance individual clinical involvement is described. Results of psychological exams of 40 patients from a family practice clinic did not accurately predict patient compliance or noncompliance. (Author/MLW)

The research report approach is suggested as a successful technique for student exposure to a diversity of bioethical issues. These interdisciplinary reports require students to analyze a controversy's components to ensure an intelligent resolution of it. Report format, list of suggested topics, and objectives of completing reports are included.…

Describes a six-week simulation of basic research in which high school students acquire, observe, describe, illustrate, and report on an invertebrate of their choice. Includes chart used to evaluate student monographs, and comments relating to student experiences while engaged in their projects. (Author/JN)

Prescribes steps that can be taken to overcome the problems of teaching the research paper. (JL)

Presents a research activity concerning the "making" of law for secondary U.S. history or government classes. Students select a piece of significant legislation from among 50 completed during President Johnson's administration and write a short essay tracing the legislation's history from its origins through to its final form as law. (AM)

Describes the use of optional group projects for third-year college-level geography students. The authors conclude that this format, besides being intellectually rewarding, teaches students valuable research, problem solving, and social skills. (AM)

Based on the results of an informal survey of 25 faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on the value and publishability of undergraduate research in chemical engineering, it is indicated that while such research is considered an excellent learning experience, fewer than 15 percent of student projects are actually published. (SK)

The teacher's role in promoting student creativity is that of risk-taker and facilitator. As a risk-taker, the teacher is a fellow learner in the search for knowledge. As a facilitator, the teacher provides the opportunity and the environment within which creative thinking flourishes. (SK)

Describes a method by which gifted and able students can conduct research on a topic of interest to them in order to develop their reading and writing skills in a meaningful context. (FL)

Describes technique designed to aid students in introductory, quantitative, college level political science courses interpret simple, bivariate tables. Technique involves simulation of a computer sort. Evaluation of technique indicates that once students have participated in a tangible experience akin to a computer operation, they are better able…

Three activities are presented that provide opportunities for independent research, expanded learning and the exchange of ideas: the "Think Box,""Inquiry Reading" and "Operation Interaction," to give skilled readers the enrichment and challenge they need. (Author)

Examples of opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in mathematical research are demonstrated. All examples are partition identities. (MK)

The stability of the Counseling Services Assessment Blank (CSAB), a self-report questionnaire measuring client satisfaction with counseling, was investigated by computing test-retest correlations for 56 subjects who completed two CSAB questionnaires separated by one month to two years. (Author)

To test differential effects of treating cognitive and emotionality response components of test anxiety, test-anxious college students (N=48) were assigned to one of four groups: an attentional treatment; a relaxation treatment; a combined attentional-relaxation treatment; and a waiting-list control group. Significant performance changes were not…