A study examined the impact of high school sophomore students' mastery of public speaking skills through sociodrama. Student attitudes toward role-play was also surveyed to provide more background information on sociodrama's impact upon student learning. A class of 26 students in southern Cook County, Illinois, prepared role-play characterizations…

Engineering is the science, art, and business of designing and getting things done; engineers are required to make things happen through interpersonal relationships. At Monash University (Australia), a new course, Management for Engineers, was set up in 1990 to encourage a more holistic approach to the process of engineering. The course included…

This workbook, designed for workplace literacy courses, covers effective reading and writing. Introductory materials include objectives, a topical outline, sources, and information on time for the course and continuing education credits. The 16 sessions of the course cover the following topics: job terms; abbreviations, acronyms, and pictorial…

This workbook, designed for workplace literacy courses, contains materials for a mathematics review course focused on helping participants understand the meaning of numbers and arithmetic operations. Strategies are provided for increasing accuracy when doing computations with whole numbers, decimals, and percents. Applications to real work…

This workbook, designed for workplace literacy courses, contains materials for a mathematics review course of basic number concepts focused on helping participants understand the meaning of numbers and arithmetic operations. Strategies are provided for increasing accuracy when doing computations with whole numbers, decimals, and percents.…

A comparison of the socialization and skill development of engineers in France and Japan reveals clear differences in the education/training, status, and professional/career development of engineers in the two countries. In France, engineers complete more than 5 years of initial training after the baccalaureate degree and subsequent entry into…

This handbook provides a description of the national and Texas initiatives for building a world-class competitive work force using education and training programs that are driven by industry via the National Skills Standards, SCANS (the Secretary of Labor's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills), and the Texas Skill Standards and Certification…

This document suggests that efforts must be made, within the context of social studies curricula, to help children and youth perceive and interact with distant phenomena, either real or simulated interaction, so that they begin to understand the complexity and importance of the total global lifespace environment upon them both singularly and…

The materials contained in this document are intended for use in a training session for adult educators. The document is designed with the following objectives in mind: inspire adult educators to increase their knowledge of critical thinking in distance education, stimulate participants to foster critical thinking in adult learners, and provide…

A strategic plan for integrating state human resource, economic development, and job training services is intended to stimulate increased productivity within the U.S. workplace. Long-term solutions to the competitive challenges can be achieved by changing thinking and behavior of organizations. High performance businesses that have achieved…

This storybook/workbook presents a communicative-based approach to learning German as a foreign language. It is intended for developing the reading skills of the young learner of German in Alberta. The text concerns the adventures of a child. Interspersed throughout the story are various exercises in which the learner is engaged to fill in or…

Reading and writing have traditionally been treated as separate processes, but some research on the relationship suggests that the two processes should be taught together. It is also proposed that skill in recognizing a text's main idea is a summarizing skill, demanding the cognitive and linguistic prerequisites appropriate to the text type. Good…

This curriculum guide contains course content recommendations for Arkansas high schools in the following social studies subjects: American government/civics, American history, Arkansas history, contemporary American history, economics, global studies, psychology, sociology, world cultures, world geography, and world history. Each subject is…

This book draws on recent theory and research to suggest ways teachers (grades K-12) can raise the levels of thinking involved in classroom activities and give students practice in higher mental operations. Taking the position that helping students understand their own mental processes also helps them function at higher levels in the English…

This study evaluated a cognitive-process approach used to train three secondary-aged students with moderate mental retardation on a social skill involving response to criticism. The cognitive-process approach teaches a generative process of social behavior rather than specific component behaviors; relies on receptive and expressive language…