The purpose of the laboratory experience described is to scrutinize the student's commitment to teaching as a profession and to help him overcome areas of personal weakness uncovered by the process. (BY)

Describes a simulated experiment in which a ship's position is determined by the Doppler principle. The formulas derived for the real satellite system are given. (CC)

A New Jersey consortium enables land-locked colleges to give their ecology and oceanography students the ocean as a laboratory. (Editor/HS)

Presents an examination of the function of laboratory teaching in preclinical courses. (HS)

Simulation training, using a modeling format, was designed to induce change in teaching behavior among mature teachers. Charts and references. (RB)

The present study extends the understanding of the level of emotional arousal produced by T Groups by providing a comparison with the college examination. (Author)

Among the effects of trainers on their T Groups was that trainer empathy and security were related to liking for the trainer and perceived member learning. Trainer affection, tendencies to reward and punish, and openess showed no or little relationship to participant learning. (Author)

There is a demand for engineers to understand the manufacture of semiconductor devices and how this knowledge can be applied to systems design. (IR)

Presents training program components for environmental consulting and testing positions: (1) preparation, (2) conducting the training, and (3) evaluating the training. (MCO)

Fear extinction is defined as a decline in conditioned fear responses (CRs) following nonreinforced exposure to a feared conditioned stimulus (CS). Behavioral evidence indicates that extinction is a form of inhibitory learning: Extinguished fear responses reappear with the passage of time (spontaneous recovery), a shift of context (renewal), and…

The process of a successful undergraduate student-faculty research collaboration involving a student with documented learning disabilities is detailed. As the student developed research skills, she also learned how to develop her own learning strategies. At the same time, the faculty member learned strategies adaptable to all student-faculty…