North Carolina State University (UNC) has been on the forefront of long-distance education by offering a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with a Mechatronics Concentration at its remote campus located at UNC Asheville. The program demonstrates that long-distance laboratories are feasible and should not be a stumbling block to offering…

Traditionally nuclear chemistry appears in the last few chapters of chemistry textbooks and is not normally considered a mainstream topic. In addition, some science teachers lack the training or equipment to teach nuclear chemistry. Yet nuclear chemistry is a very important topic that should be taught in all chemistry classrooms. Learning about…

Increasingly, business and education professionals recognize the centrality of oral communication in everyday activities, and such a competency is best developed through repeated instruction and application. However, few colleges or universities have implemented speech communication laboratories, and where they do exist, they are often constrained…

Three outcome studies were conducted in order to evaluate various treatment procedures for subjects experiencing dating anxiety. The treatment procedures of specific focus was a skills training package using modeling, behavioral rehearsal, feedback, and in vivo practice as major components. The data from two studies indicates the skills training…

This document, a collection of guidelines for clinical experience in teacher education, is divided into eight sections with two appendixes. These sections are as follows: Frame of Reference; Aims of Clinical Experiences, which stresses that the experiences should be complementary to the humanistic, behavioral, and pedagogical studies for becoming…

This experimental program is composed of a series of projects: the 1971-72 phase titled, "Leadership Training for Multicultural Understanding," and the 1973-74 phase, "Leadership Training to Influence Peer Behavior." Funding has come from HEW grants--Emergency School Assistance Program and the Emergency School Aid Act. The…

The Task Force responsible for this document was established to study 2 major questions: (1) How should the minicomputer be used in the undergraduate classroom and laboratory program? and (2) What type of minicomputer facilities are needed to carry out the recommended program? The first question is treated in Part 1. Two types of applications are…

The process of involving social work graduate students specializing in planning and administration in the design of management simulations is described. Focus is on the integrative capacity of the simulation to combine knowledge and skills acquired in both classroom and practicum experience, and a detailed description of a student guide to…

Describes a remedial physics laboratory course for students operating at the concrete Piagetian level of cognitive development. (SL)

The authors present the case for improvement in the teaching of oral communication skills to business students. They describe a successful model laboratory approach to teaching these skills. (CH)

On the basis of the parameters measured in this study, students completing a curriculum in medical technology with a shortened clinical laboratory phase plus structured courses in basic clinical science performed as well in an employment situation as students completing a curriculum with a full year of clinical laboratory experience. (Author)

A discription of GAMEgame which teaches various aspects of designing, adapting and evaluating instructional games and simulations. (Author)

Four sessions of a program for business executives were studied to compare effects of T Group training versus a lecture discussion approach to interpersonal relations in organizations. Both programs produced equal change in participants' beliefs about effective interpersonal behavior. T Group training showed greater effects on perceptions of self…

A laboratory learning intervention in a new high school had a durable effect upon both faculty and students; (a) teachers exhibited greater interpersonal openness and acceptance of conflict, and (b) students saw the faculty as more receptive and themselves as more responsible and coactive, both in and out of the classroom. (Author)

The equal employment opportunity sensitivity workshop seems to be a useful training device for getting an organization started on developing black and white change agents. A report on the establishment of such a workshop at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command (TACOM). Includes charts of design, characteristics, analysis of results, program…