Reports on a technical writing course which is conducted in conjunction with the senior-level unit operations course required of chemical engineering students. (BB)

Describes the requirements of a course entitled "Technical Reporting," offered for seniors in the Civil Engineering Department, and covers a variety of techniques in report writing and editing. (GA)

Discusses a proposal writing project in a technical writing course, in which students develop and actually submit a proposal for possible implementation. (GW)

Calculations and diagrams are given for determining parameters useful for the operation of screw pumps. (BB)

Many college administrators feel that they need to start planning for the possibility that some faculty members may decide to work longer when the retirement age is lifted. They are concerned that a study by the National Academy of Sciences has stalled. (MLW)

An interview with the Illinois State director of research and evaluation, covers issues related to commissioning and using evaluators. Pancrazio's position is with the State Board of Education. Focus is on the preparation of research reports to facilitate decision making and policy making. (TJH)

Describes the services and products provided by the National Technical Information Service, which collects, organizes, and markets technical information generated by U.S. and foreign governments in all areas of science and technology. (CLB)

There has been a decrease in "sex difference" studies in anthropology, education, feminist studies, psychology, and sociology since the mid-1970s but an increase in research on how gender relationships are created, maintained, and transformed through education. Social interactionism and sociocultural reproduction have become increasingly…

Investigates the circumstances under which answer changing is beneficial or detrimental to test performance. Analyzes the success of answer changing in relation to the reasons offered for changing. Concludes that students who reported guessing as their reason for changing answers were not nearly as likely to benefit from changing as were students…

Discusses logical errors, such as converse reasoning, that are made by students in mathematics and science courses. States that many students apply incorrect forms of reasoning to concrete mathematical problems. Concludes that material should be taught as concretely as possible, and that mathematics students should be made aware of reasoning…

Investigated were the effects of spatial training on calculus achievement, spatial visualization ability, and the use of visualization in solving problems on solids of revolution. Sex differences were found favoring women in calculus achievement and men in spatial visualization ability. (MNS)

Government-appointed education commission reports are seriously flawed and have resulted in misleading impressions that significant reforms have occurred as a result of commission efforts. The commission approach to educational change and improvement is compellingly reasonable but deceptively simplistic and general. (Author/CB)

Women from five Canadian universities overestimated their final grades less often and underestimated them more often than men did. No sex-related difference was found in level of confidence to complete the bachelor's program, but women expressed less confidence in their ability to obtain the doctorate. (MNS)

Review of existing research on the general cognitive outcomes of Logo training concludes there is little data-based or empirical evidence on the effects of teaching Logo to children. It is suggested that current research on Logo should be more directly tied to outcomes related to learning a structured computer language. (MBR)

Studies the fate of scientific observations as they pass from original reports intended for scientific peers into popular accounts aimed at a general audience. (FL)