The speech given at the awards ceremony of the Midwest Talent Search Project, addresses gifted and talented students about issues in their education. The speaker urges students to be assertive in fighting curricular inflexibility and to understand the complementary functions of acceleration enrichment. He discusses the benefits of summer courses…

In this paper, the authors view mentorship not as the traditional one-to-one relationship between mentor and mentee, but "from the next scale up" as a large systematic collection of mentor-mentee pairs. This concept, borrowed from the graphic arts and called "macro-mentorship," is adopted as a means for obtaining new insights…

This paper discusses the conceptual reform of university-based graduate level administrator preparation programs. The functionalist, interpretative, and critical approaches to social science have important implications for the study of motivation, decision-making, communication and leadership. Interpretative and critical approaches must be woven…

Two professors provide a duography of their former faculty-student relationship that confronted existing mentoring practices. They explore duography as an arts-based form of qualitative research to extend ways of thinking about and practicing the mentorship of graduate students. Duography is defined as a retrospective written account that two…

If his or her manuscript is carefully prepared and the prospective journal judiciously selected, the graduate student will find the publishing process fulfilling and professionally valuable. Submitting papers to conventions is a good place to start, particularly if the convention specifically requests debut papers, papers written by those who have…

Although women are a crucial element in national rural development, their role continues to be neglected in plans and programs for change--especially in Third World countries. In addition to the burden faced by rural people generally in developing countries, women carry a double burden because of their low social status, high illiteracy rate, lack…

This student-oriented instructional booklet provides strategies for students for notebook organization, time management, note-taking, reading and highlighting assignments, homework completion, and test-taking. The booklet's first section, "Preparing for Classes," offers tips for keeping a notebook, an assignment sheet, a calendar, a daily and…

This report provides a summary of the accredited programs in library and information science in the Federal Republic of Germany. Discussions consider the expansion of education programs in such fields as electronic data processing and information and communications technology; the shifting trend in course development from more general to very…

Animation is being used extensively for instructional purposes; however, it has not been found to be effective on measures of higher order learning (concepts, rules, procedures) within the knowledge acquisition and knowledge integration domains. The purpose of this study was to examine the instructional effectiveness of two visual scaffolding…

This information packet contains sections from a high school advisor/advisee handbook and the accompanying student planning guide. The introduction explains the roles and responsibilities of advisors, lists four goals of the advisement program, and lists three areas of focus of the program: (1) self-awareness; (2) career awareness; and (3) school…

Recognizing that jobs are changing quickly during this second revolution of bookmaking and printing and that students must become aware of the new information technologies before they graduate, this brief report written in German presents examples of how to develop research and education in the study of books and printing using the most up-to-date…

This speech, presented to undergraduate students who serve as mentors and tutors to high school students, emphasizes the need for increased high school graduation rates in order for the United States to remain competitive in the world economy and points out the importance of the mentoring program at the Hudson-Mohawk Association in furthering this…

This paper opens with the following questions: "How prepared are you as a student affairs professional for information communication technology (ICT)? Do you understand such concepts as portals, e-business, Napster, computer use policies, and wireless communication? Will student affairs be shaped by ICT or will student affairs help shape ICT on…

This report describes the implementation and operation of a 6-month peer coaching program, "Collegial Coaching: Transfer of Learning through Reflective Practice," at Estacado High School in Lubbock (Texas). The program was originally designed to assist teachers to improve their own management and instruction in the classroom. However, it…

Of interest to curriculum developers, the materials in this paper pertain to the communication component of the prelaw curriculum initiated in the 1979-80 school year at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The materials include (1) a brief decription of the prelaw program; (2) information sheets for students considering the program;…