Survey investigated the attitudes, expectations, activities, and recommendations for pharmacy fellowships of 66 preceptors and 57 fellows. There was some discrepancy between preceptors and fellows in activities perceived as being accomplished during fellowship training and in program strengths and weaknesses. Most fellows were very satisfied with…

Illustrates the importance of "passionate detachment" (passionate about being detached from one's position on a topic) when addressing advocacy in the classroom by describing "Introduction to Social Policy," a course on poverty. Explains that the course aims at developing an understanding of poverty, not just a list of proposed solutions. (CMK)

Highlights an interviewing techniques course that facilitates professional skills likely to contribute to success in fieldwork. Provides a description of the course including the role of the instructor, course activities, and evaluating skill development. Describes the course assessment and discusses the survey results. (CMK)

Presents the results from a survey, of alumni who majored in economics at Davidson College, designed to assess the value of the types of assigned writing in writing intensive (WI) economics courses. Describes the WI economics courses offered at Davidson College. Discusses implications of the survey results. (CMK)

Offers instructors a model for presenting meta-analysis to students within an undergraduate experimental psychology course that can be covered in approximately 90 minutes. Discusses the prerequisites for teachers and students, outlines a lecture, and describes an in-class exercise that gives students practice in meta-analytic procedures. Offers an…

Describes a course entitled "The Trial of Napoleon Bonaparte" that focuses on a fictitious mock trial of Napoleon Bonaparte to answer the question: did Napoleon pervert or preserve the gain of the French Revolution? Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the course. (CMK)

Describes a classroom experiment in which students see how competitive markets underproduce in the presence of a positive externality. States that this experiment is used in a principles of economics course to introduce the idea of market failure. Explains that participants take the role of buyers of education, sellers of education, or interested…

Examines university student motivation and goals related to preferences for course requirements and evaluation methods in introductory psychology courses. Reports that student expectations of preferences were sometimes contradictory, were different across subgroups (goal, age, and gender), and did not match faculty goals. Includes references. (CMK)

Explores six methods for incorporating into courses published autobiographies written by individuals suffering from mental disorders: (1) outside readings; (2) examples for classroom lectures; (3) primary texts for discussion sections; (4) remedial or extra-credit assignments; (5) information resources; and (6) source books for topical seminars.…

Describes an online, for-credit information literacy class developed at the California State University, Hayward library to meet student needs and to explore the potential of distance education. Describes course content and discusses findings that suggest that students are less prepared to function in a Web-based distance education environment…

Discusses current technology standards for teacher preparation programs. Describes the standards, performance profile, and statement of basic principles/actions developed by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE). Addresses the program standards developed by…

Focuses on the value of a multicultural counseling prepracticum course for counselors in training at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond). States that the course helps students develop their skills in multicultural counseling. Offers suggestions for teaching the course and discusses course objectives, course content, and student responses.…

Describes a system that involves randomly administered quizzes and offers suggestions for its implementation in classes of any size. Presents data in support of the effectiveness of this technique stating that students completed their assigned reading at impressive rates when motivated by randomly administered quizzes. (CMK)

A course to prepare nursing students to identify health and safety needs of farm families used a model with eight subsystems. Students were trained to gather assessment data from a variety of sources in each subsystem; then they developed diagnoses and planned interventions. (SK)

Explores using videos to teach mass media and society from a critical sociological perspective. Discusses the content of the course from focusing on analysis of corporate capitalism and media producers to analyzing popular media texts on gender, race, the working class, and sexuality. Addresses the evaluation of the course. (CMK)