Describes the use of an autobiographical writing assignment to orient older, non-traditional students, and students in social work-related fields, to the library and its resources based on experiences in a graduate gerontology course at Wayne State University. Appendices include skill and values objectives and advanced research skills that were…

Describes a one-year course to develop students' research skills at the Arkansas School for Mathematics and Science. The course offers a combination of rigorous content (optics and optical instrumentation), interdisciplinary curriculum, and hands-on experiences in meaningful, nontraditional learning in real-life research settings. (Author/DB)

Discusses telecollaboration (working with others at a distance) or teleresearch (finding and using information from distantly located data sources - most commonly online). Suggests guides to help teachers design activities incorporating online research for K-12: to practice information-seeking skills, answer questions, review multiple perspectives…

Outlines progress initiated by the University of South Africa (Unisa) library to develop online support to distance-education users. Topics include a library skills training program delivered via the World Wide Web; research information skills; Internet course development; current awareness service; the library's home page; electronic libraries;…

School nurses occupy a unique position in relation to school health policy. In addition to facing the demands of promoting and maintaining the health of students, they collect the information that is used to document the implementation of school health policy. Effective school health policy is guided by reliable, credible data regarding what…

If producing quality research and meeting the attendant demands of thesis and dissertation writing is a difficult process for native speaker students, it is often doubly so for non-native speakers. ESL/EFL students may have the level of language proficiency for admission to their course of study, without yet possessing the necessary textual…

In an effort to enhance students' understanding of research, a collaborative learning approach was employed in an upper division social psychology course at State University of New York's College at Buffalo. Students worked together in small groups to develop hypotheses, design simple correlational studies, and interpret results, while each…

A media specialist and third-grade teachers developed a 2-week student-driven, resource-based inquiry unit that offers students a perspective about women's contributions to society, both historical and current. The unit uses the KWL model (what do you Know, what do you Want to know, and what have you Learned), oral interviews, children's…

This paper opens with a brief description of three administrative options for implementing bibliographic instruction programs for college level students: (1) composition instructors teach their students research methods without working with librarians; (2) librarians offer separate library skills courses to the general student body; and (3)…

Descriptions of 155 programs supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education are provided. In addition to a brief statement of the scope of each program, the project director, address, and phone number are identified. Topics addressed by the programs include: ensuring adequate math preparation for college work through…

An institution's innovative plan for staff utilization, which represented a forced coalition between the offices for institutional research and university advancement, is described. Funding cuts eliminated staff in both of these offices. An institutional research/planning staff team (team A) identified current skills and resources and determined…

A federally funded project at the University of Alabama, Project Growth, was developed in response to the need for more participation by women and minorities in educational research and leadership. The project emphasizes both professional and personal growth experiences, with broad exposure to a variety of research topics. A comprehensive,…

This four-part report describes a federally funded program at the University of Alabama which provided postgraduate personal and professional development activities to women and minority group scholars. The goals of Project Growth are described: (1) to provide opportunities for advanced study and research of significant educational problems; (2)…

Project ASSERT, an experimental project conducted at San Diego State University (California), was designed to prepare, demonstrate, and disseminate strategies to increase the participation of women and minorities in education research. The program trained faculty researchers in advanced research methodologies and provided practitioners with…

The primary purpose of the Joint Hampton-Michigan program was to train 15 post-doctoral minority and women faculty members from the Hampton Institute (Virginia) and the University of Michigan in educational research skills. A secondary purpose was to investigate the effectiveness of several models through which the researchers were trained. The…