The American Board of Internal Medicine's experience with the evaluation of clinical skills from 1971 to 1975 based on visits with the administrators of 166 residency training programs is described. Included are the evaluative methods employed by the programs, minimum standards of performance, and the benefits to training in internal medicine…

Students in undergraduate surgery at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston participated in a comparison study of bedside teaching and small group seminars. No special advantage for bedside teaching could be documented when two very similar groups of students were evaluated. (LBH)

In response to an earlier article advocating the elimination of fractions from the curriculum, the author argues for their retention. He points out examples of their use in music and physic, and discusses methods of presenting operations on fractions. (SD)

A method of bisecting an angle by construction of an isosceles triangle and its axis of symmetry is described. (SD)

This study, using selected activities from the "Students Toward Environmental Participation" (STEP) program, compared the attitudes of forty-one preservice science and social studies teachers toward activities in environmental/ecological field trips. No significant differences existed between the attitudes of perspective science and social studies…

A method for teaching students to solve complex algebraic equations is described. The method, which relies on sequentially reducing the complexity of the problem has been successfully used with secondary students and in remedial college courses. (SD)

The author argues that undergraduates, and especially those not planning to pursue mathematics, are not ready for a definitional approach to mathematics. He interprets data on student attribution of five terms (theorem, law, fact about numbers, definition, axiom) to definitions in support of his argument. (SD)

Two methods of teaching mathematics to engineering students were investigated. The first used tutorials, written materials, and lectures, while the second used computer exercises instead of tutorials. Both were effective with students entering the program with low mathematics achievement. (SD)

This paper examines (1) the problems of program design and implementation in relation to evaluation design, the confusion between research and evaluation design, and the overemphasis on quantitative data; (2) clarifies misconceptions about these problems and the evaluation process; and (3) suggests ways of avoiding these problems in the future.…

The author discusses the difficulties inherent in testing procedures when used for classifying children as handicapped, and procedures which could be used to insure that such tests are applied, evaluated, and interpreted in a nondiscriminatory manner. (MB)

Discusses the first two parts of a three-part course. The first part addresses the problems of the growing social complexity in classrooms, the alternative and competing value systems operating among school participants and the effects of teaching within an extended bureaucracy. The second part places those problems within the social contexts of…

Six deficits of this model are discussed: disparity in proponent prowess, fallible arbiters, excessive confidence in the model's potency, difficulties in framing the proposition in a manner amenable to adversary resolution, "a cat's-paw for biased decision makers," and, excessive costs. (Author/JM)

Illustrations are given of ways in which cultural and social information can illuminate the literary texts used in foreign language teaching. (RM)

This article outlines ways of helping students to develop informal or expressional features at the non-verbal level of communication. (DB)

Existing legal doctrine, the author argues, provides no clear solution to the conflict between freedom of association and freedom from racial discrimination in cases regarding racial discrimination by private clubs and schools. Examines alternative policies toward the conflict and their likely impact on the opposing interests. (JT)