Students from the University of Montevallo, Alabama's public liberal arts university, re-created the Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862) approximately twenty miles north of Corinth, Mississippi. For ten weeks in a classroom environment, nineteen students studied strategy, operations, and tactics that affected events nearly 143 years prior. Then,…

Although self-regulated learning is considered as a characteristic of individual students, the question may be raised as to whether a community of learners with its emphasis on inquiry learning in teams of students provides an appropriate environment to acquire and develop active and dynamic self-regulation strategies. Two cases of communities of…

These four papers by a reference librarian discuss the potential for students at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oswego to engage in a positive academic career that will have a significant impact not only on their growth as people, but also on their future endeavors. The first paper, "Self-Definition: Naming Yourself in a College…

In 1983, 100 members of a second-year marketing class at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) participated in a market research project to determine the views of BCIT and other postsecondary institutions held by various groups outside of the college, to analyze the findings, and to prepare recommendations for action by BCIT. A total of…

THIS STUDY AIMED AT--(1) CHARACTERIZING PROBLEM-SOLVING PROCESSES OF DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS AND (2) DETERMINING THE EFFECTS OF TRAINING ON THE SUBJECTS' APPROACHES TO THEIR PROBLEM-SOLVING PERFORMANCE. THE DESIGN INCLUDED 50 NINTH-GRADE STUDENTS AND 50 COLLEGE FRESHMEN DIVIDED INTO EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS IN WHICH SUBJECTS WERE MATCHED ON…

A FOLLOWUP STUDY ON THE PROFILES OF INDIVIDUALS 25 YEARS AFTER THEY ENTERED COLLEGE IS REPORTED. APPROXIMATELY 650 INDIVIDUALS RESPONDED TO QUESTIONNAIRES. DATA WERE COLLECTED AND COLLATED, AND DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIOUS SUBGROUPS AND COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE GROUPS MADE OF SCHOLASTIC ABILITIES, ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, INTERESTS AND ADJUSTMENTS,…

The focus of this report is a normative profile of Jewish freshmen entering college in the fall of 1969. Using data obtained from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), information was secured on Jewish freshmen. This data was compared with data collected in previous years. The basic approach in this report was to include the…

This document offers a list of mathematical periodicals which has been prepared for the use of research students in mathematics in the universities of the United States. The selection has been made after consultation with a number of professors in those universities that have most to do with directing research work in mathematics in this country,…

Undergraduate men and women judged to be either high or low in creative ability were given the Tennessee Self Concept Scale and an ideal other questionnaire. Highly creative males gave TSCS responses similar to those of females with minimal creative ability. Highly creative females had the lowest self-esteem. (Author)

Describes a project on Covent Garden, an area in London's West End, carried out by a class of low intermediate students of English as a Second Language. The project consists of these students interviewing people there or investigating the area's buildings and history. (nine references) (Author/CK)

Explores the development of the sociology of college students in higher education institutions in Russia, focusing on the students as an object of sociological-biographical analysis. Discusses studies of college students that were conducted at the start of the twentieth century. Includes seven references. (CMK)

Discusses the use of oral history within a North Dakota state history course at the University of North Dakota (Grand Forks). Addresses how the students are prepared to conduct oral history interviews. Relates the information students found within their oral history interviews and the benefits of oral history. (CMK)

Gains in research self-efficacy for 60 Social Work and 75 Speech-Language Pathology students were compared. Our interest was to investigate whether students enrolled in both research and practice courses made greater gains in research self-efficacy over a semester, as compared to students enrolled in practice courses only. Findings indicated that…

Student projects in both research and statistics classes promote active learning and critical thinking not found in more passive types of course delivery. Students start the dialogue of researchers as they internalize the process of conducting research projects with "real world" issues of interest to them in introductions to research and…

Arguing that the primary means of integrating the library with classroom instruction is the library assignment or research paper, this paper takes a practical look at what constitutes an effective library assignment. It begins by debunking various misconceptions about the library and students' library skills which tend to undermine library…