Catalogs of 322 US colleges and universities for the years 1957 and 1967 were analyzed to determine the range and frequency of prevailing undergraduate curricular practices on a national level. The institutions chosen for the study were representative as to type, control, size, geographic location, and accreditation region in proportion to the…

The College Entrance Examination Board's advanced placement course in European history is described in this pamphlet. Briefly discussed are suggested instructional materials, the scope and content of the course, and the desired achievements of the students. Sample multiple-choice and essay questions from the examination for the course are…

This paper describes a contract approach to teaching a graduate course in educational psychology at Kent State University. The instructor, operating from a set of four premises, offered students a choice of differentially weighted project tasks, with specific criteria, which must total a minimum of 50 points. Options included a film critique (5…

For training and protection in any economic sector, a cooperative society is an appropriate organization. In such a society, members give mutual aid, exchange experiences, and benefit from the direct advice of civil servants. The African countries need a cooperative society. Cooperatives for handicrafts, credit, consumers, housing, and agriculture…

A course of study, developed by teachers to make home and family education more meaningful and interesting to students, and focusing on privileges, responsibilities and characteristics of an effective babysitter, is presented. Contents include: the job; child development and guidance; accident prevention; and community and parental responsibility…

Systematic experimental manipulation of the four components of the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) approach and required lectures gives results suggesting that dropping any one component is undesirable. (Author)

Teachers at all levels are encouraged, if not required, to produce and use behavioral objectives. The author offers several useful suggestions for doing so. (Editor)

Gives a typology of various possible approaches to grammar teaching, involving grammars for learning, for skill acquisition, and those which look at course organization, media and teaching aids. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Based on the need for extensive services in a sparsely populated region, the University of Northern Colorado established a Dual-Competency program to prepare the prospective teacher to teach both academic subjects and orientation and mobility to the visually handicapped. (SBH)

This article seeks to examine: (1) the relevance of and necessity for inclusion of an undergraduate course on the intergenerational shift in political power; and (2) the methodology best suited to involve students in the problem and potential solutions, both through traditional research methods and through "hands on" community interaction. (BSR)

Describes a course dealing with issues of institutional policy analysis which is the study of government reform and its consequences. Explains that the course is organized around three sets of choices: value choices, methodological choices, and institutional choices in which students question their own decision-making processes. (BSR)

Compares Organizing Principle, multi-syllabus, and modular approaches to second language course design and suggests a modular course design that offers the greatest flexibility for both the instructor and for future course planning by allowing the instructor to link various elements of this approach according to methodology and student needs.…

Proposes a media economics model to structure mass communications survey courses. Presents five assumptions valuable in creating an economic framework, and discusses how these concepts from microeconomics can apply to mass communications. (MM)

Paper reports the development and application of a framework for assessing course characteristics. Discussion focuses on the usefulness of the framework for predicting variance in students' performances and constructing, evaluating, and revising curriculums. (RB)