A language teaching record scheme that is intended to describe second language teaching as it occurs in a variety of teaching settings without reference to global methods is presented. (Author/HP)

Argues that the kinds of information we can pick up with our eyes are superior to and outnumber that collected by the ears; and presents a series of guidelines for increasing and improving the use of visuals in instructional materials. (VT)

Since 85 out of every 100 women will be on their own at some time during their lives, society should prepare girls for careers with skills, fostering attitudes, accepting environments, and a sense of self-sufficiency. Ten suggestions are given for teachers to help girls identify goals and acquire needed skills, life purpose, and meaning.…

Explains how simulation games clarify the relationship between the abstractions of sociological theory and everyday experience. Illustrates cognitive and affective benefits of simulation by examining graduate students' reaction papers after playing a cultural awareness game. (Author/AV)

Outlines the feminist perspective within political science and evaluates the influence of the feminist point of view on mainstream political science teaching. Concludes that additional dialogue is necessary between feminists and their teaching colleagues to alleviate stereotypes and biases regarding womens' political behavior and theoretical…

Elaboration and overt rehearsal are compared as instructional paradigms for memory retention. Superior long-term retention was produced in the elaboration condition when the initial acquisition effects were statistically removed. Short-term data suggest acquisition was complexly affected by experimental condition, I.Q., and task. Elaboration…

High cognitive processing capacity (CPC) students were superior to low-CPC students in prose learning. Of the four learning modes--programmed instruction (PI), control, chunking study outline, and adjunct questions--PI was the most effective. Substantial CPC and performance correlations and poor long-term retention suggested that PI was not best…

Structured Learning Therapy (SLT) teaches aggressive adolescents prosocial skills (negotiation, self-relaxation, and anger control) by modeling, role playing, social reinforcement, and transfer of training. This article summarizes initial application of SLT with psychiatric clients, includes guidelines for improving trainee-trainer-treatment…

This article is a general overview of desegregation. Discussion first centers on the weakening of desegregation by federal housing programs, school board policies and opportunistic politicians, and then proceeds to the relationship of desegregation and poverty. (Author)

Presents learning activities to help secondary school students understand problems involved in deciding sentences for crimes. The specific objective is to increase students' awareness of alternative punishment for offenders. (DB)

In 1976 a nationwide survey of social science instructors in community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and universities was conducted to determine whether community college instructors were using more innovative teaching methods than their counterparts in universities. Few differences were found in the use of innovative methods among these…

This paper explores the relevance of theories in developmental psychology, cognitive development, acquisition of verbal skills, studies of fantasy, and in personality for research in composition. The basis of this essay is that composing is a dynamic process central to normal human functioning rather than a simple product of expression. (Author/RK)

In place of sending thousands of teachers to developing countries, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) now gives educational assistance by training Third World people to manage their own training and education systems after the Canadian advisors have left. CIDA projects in Bangladesh, Jamaica, and St. Lucia are described. (MF)

The author taught in an open-space classroom at Argyle Junior High in Montgomery County, Maryland. Here is a candid look at the inner workings of a room without walls. (Editor/RK)

Reports on research into ways of encouraging and evaluating students' creative development in adult art classes: development of visual perception, manipulative skills, ability to generate metaphorical images, and acquisition of relevant knowledge. (MF)