Describes two workshop models used at the Oregon Institute of Technology for new and adjunct faculty in engineering and engineering technology. Provides a breakdown of the percentage of time devoted to the various topics and methodologies addressed in the workshops, along with outlines of both sessions. (TW)

The Bronx Community College's Department of Student Development has provided an array of developmental minicourses to help incoming freshmen acquire coping skills and a new social support system. These courses foster cognitive, affective, and interpersonal development. (TE)

Six issues of a current awareness bulletin published occasionally by the ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies are combined in this document. The various issues, written in 1973 and 1974, deal with emerging topics of interest in future studies, legal education, womens studies, minicourses, global studies, and school ethnography. Each four page…

Compared two group career decision-making courses with a comparison group on such factors as occupational certainty and satisfaction, appropriateness, and information-seeking behavior. Results were mixed, but generally the 20-session course was favored by study participants over the 10-session course. (Author/TE)

Describes a number of programs designed to help adults, mainly women, get back into the educational system through short courses to prepare them for return to work, self-development, or higher education. Different institutions' courses vary but all include recognition of counseling needs and approach at a mature level. (MF)

Describes the Multiple Abilities Program at the University of Alabama, in which preservice teachers team with general and special elementary education classroom mentors to teach students with average and above average abilities and students with mild learning or behavior problems. The program involves preservice teachers in developing enrichment…

Presents a story about an extension worker with the Ghana Ministry of Agriculture and discusses a short course in extension developed for the Ministry by the University of Ghana Agricultural Extension Department. Training focus was on active field practice to demonstrate class subjects and techniques. (MF)

Maintains that direct instruction can improve significantly undergraduates citing of primary and secondary sources. Students were tested concerning definitions of primary and secondary sources, judgement of citation acceptability, and identification of samples. Students receiving posttest instruction showed marked improvement. Recommends early…

Since 1971 Edison Junior High School in Janesville, Wisconsin, has developed and used an innovative social science curriculum for junior high students. Process of the Social Scientist (POSS) is a 2-year program for the combined sixth/seventh grade which places primary emphasis on the process used by working social scientists rather than on the…

Describes an interdisciplinary minicourse on dinosaur fossils, morphology, ethology, and energetics. Suggests and provides examples of hands-on activities for junior high school- through college-level students. (DS)

Individualized learning is one of the current educational trends. This approach is an answer to the differences found among students in terms of their abilities and disabilities, learning styles, objectives, and interests. Individualized instruction calls for a synthesis of strategies, which should be categorized in a hierarchy projecting all…