The basic purpose of the present study was to study the effectiveness of using trained peers to lead small process groups in freshman orientation. A sample of 253 freshman students from East Central State College in Ada, Oklahoma, were used for the experiment. The instrument used to determine whether perceptions of the college campus climate…

Student prepared questions were used in this examination experiment that proved quite beneficial to student learning. (HS)

Offers questions to serve as an intellectual springboard for those involved in the planning, implementation, or evaluation of experimental colleges. (HS)

A program devised to involve college sophomores in activities to help residents of a ghetto area is discussed. (CK)

Illustrates the construction of a classroom demonstration of the moving cube illusion. Gives details for building this three-dimensional figure that appears to be a solid cube but is actually a hollow figure. Suggests ways in which this display may be used in the classroom or as a permanent exhibit. (KO)

Author suggests that in increasingly difficult times for higher education, innovators need to take care in formulating problems, in proposing ways of tackling them and in costing these proposals. (Editor)

FOUR ESSAYS, EACH BY A DIFFERENT AUTHOR, PRESENT PARTICULAR ASPECTS OF INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION. TOGETHER THESE ESSAYS PROVIDE AN INSIGHT INTO THE PURPOSES OF BOTH THOSE WHO SEEK INNOVATION AND THOSE WHO RESIST IT, A SUMMARY OF RECENT INNOVATIONS CURRENTLY IN OPERATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION, AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS OF…

This document discusses the plans and the implementation of plans for the National Conference on Curricular and Instructional Innovation for Large Colleges and Universities, held at Michigan State University, November 6-11, 1966. The purposes of the conference were (1) to identify through discussion and demonstration promising curricular and…

The document comprises collections of experimental instructional projects generated by teachers at the Big Ten universities. The projects are usually aimed at improving the conditions for learning in a particular disciplinary area, but many of these arrangements can be easily adapted for use in other departments. The entries in Section 1;…

This report comprises a collection of summaries of exploratory efforts by college professors at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation member institutions to develop new and better ways of teaching. Usually these are local experiments aimed at improving the conditions for learning in a specific subject-matter area, but many of the procedures…

Describes an overseas field instruction experiment in social work. (PG)