A review of some recent educational and research activities is presented in this publication. Major articles compiled in this review include: An Innovative Approach to Laboratory Instruction; An Evaluation of the Mastery Strategy for General Biology Students, Food Science as a General Education Course in Biological Science; The Phase Achievement…

This study focuses on the nature of educational development in the United States as determined by an analysis of the available literature. There is general agreement that educational development has not achieved the status now accorded to the general avocation of research by educators. This appears to be the result of a relatively short history…

The Exploratory Field Experience in Education program is a field-based program for those students who indicate that they wish to pursue a professional career in education. The aim of the program is to assist the student in making an intelligent career choice early in his college years. The program is set for the first semester of the sophomore…

It was the purpose of this investigation to ascertain and evaluate the response of graduate students in Counselor Education and Rehabilitation Counseling to their experiences in an introductory course in Human Relations. This course was an integral part of their counselor preparation program. We wished to consider the implications of these student…

This paper traces the growth of the concept of a mathematics laboratory and reviews recent research and developments in this field. The first section quotes several interpretations of the term and discusses some of the activities advocated by its proponents. The second section quotes extensively from E. H. Moore (1902) and McLennan and Dewey…

This collection of papers investigates various aspects of the library as a Learning Resource Center. The first paper focuses on targets for innovation and points to the administrators of Learning Resource Centers as agents for constructive change in their junior colleges. The second paper shows that the library takes on a dynamic teaching function…

This collection of selected papers covers a variety of community college topics taken from a series of conferences sponsored by Northern Illinois University. The first describes a systems approach to individualized instruction in which appropriate learning experiences are assigned each student based on the results of a set of diagnostic…

If students have control over learning devices such as tape recorders, do they learn more? That was the question which this experiment tried to answer using three different situations. In situation A, the subject had no control over the tape playback once the lesson had been started. In situation B, the subject could stop the lesson to take notes…

This pilot teaching unit is one of a series developed for use in elementary school science programs. This unit is designed to provide children with experiences which involve both balanced and unbalnced conditions. The unit begins with some activities designed to increase the children's awareness of body balance. Later activities involve equal-arm…

This project was designed to prepare teachers to exert leadership as change agents in the development of elementary school educational programs containing components suggested by Phase I projects of the USOE model Elementary Teacher Education Project. These components include 1) individualized learning with emphasis on large group and small group…

This laboratory manual for junior high school students encompasses concepts found in manufacturing. Developed under a contract from the U.S. Office of Education, it is the second part of a 2-year integrated program, and together with the first course in construction technology, provides an introductory study of industrial technology. This manual…

Learning activities supplementing those found in the curriculum resource handbook, "Learning Laboratories for Unemployed, Out-of-School Youth," and useful for occupational guidance are suggested. Activities suggested concern: (1) Conducting orientation procedures, (2) An alternative method for organizing the interaction seminar, (3) Establishing a…

This is a report of the centennial conference of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Included are details of centennial activities, topics of discussions, the highlights of a speech by Karl Massanari on performance-based teacher education, and highlights of discussions, even down to transcripts of group discussions. Topics and problems covered in…

This study was designed to investigate and compare the effects of two laboratory approaches in biology upon prospective elementary teachers in their understanding of the social aspects of science, achievement in selected biological principles, understanding of science as process, and ability in critical thinking. The two approaches compared were…

This revised and expanded version of a similar manual first published in 1969 is designed to acquaint students at both junior and senior levels with some of the problems and effects of air pollution and the practical means of overcoming them. The 38 experiments comprise a group of exercises which can be selected according to the interests of the…