Provides a rationale for the workshop format in teaching technical writing. Discusses the benefits in areas such as motivation, audience awareness, and voice development and provides an outline for workshop sessions. Sessions include editing writing by others, writing a short paper, and group interaction. (HTH)

Results are presented of an impromptu exploration of polar formulas for volumes of revolution for certain plane regions. The material is thought to be unique, and to offer room for student exploration. It is felt pupil investigation can lead to increased pupil interest in both polar coordinates and calculus. (MP)

Analyzes the positive and negative features of mastery learning and its place in competency-based education. (Author/WD)

"Beat the Record," a structured math testing/learning station activity, directs the learning disabled student's emphasis from a specified goal to one that surpasses a previous achievement. The student is motivated to participate in the testing process, and the teacher controls the variables which reduce performance (materials, physical setting).…

A three-year bachelor's degree curriculum is recommended for motivated and well-prepared college students, for some majors. Advantages foreseen include savings in time and money, an improved college atmosphere, higher persistence rates, and less need for departments to lower standards and resort to mass marketing efforts. (MSE)

A two-step control procedure is demonstrated in which the experimenter first identifies the most appropriate control group for the investigation and then employs multiple covariates to adjust the dependent measure(s) for these sources of error. This procedure is demonstrated in a learning strategy experiment. (GK)

Several methods of numerical mappings other than the usual cartesian coordinate system are considered. Some examples using parallel axes representation, which are seen to lead to aesthetically pleasing or interesting configurations, are presented. Exercises with alternative representations can stimulate pupil imagination and exploration in…

Course instruction was manipulated to yield two different levels of structure in an analysis of the effects of course structure on student satisfaction for 166 introductory educational psychology students. Results suggested that student satisfaction for different degrees of course structure depends on personality attributes. (Author/LC)

Discusses the applications of Russell G. Stauffer's work to the teaching of reading. (JL)

This article discusses the critical developmental factors in the modeling of motor skills and suggests practical implications for teachers of young children. Major factors for successful modeling involve the students' cognitive-developmental level and the students' motivational orientation. CJ)

A problem-posing approach is used to change a door problem that involves a linear hallway into one in which doors are in a circle. The new problem is noted to relate mathematically to concepts behind the spirograph. It is hoped the material will encourage teachers to use problem-posing. (MP)

Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI), such as PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operation), TICCIT (Time-Shared Interactive Computer Controlled Information Television), Computer Managed Instruction (CMI), and representative military applications of computers are described and discussed. (KC)

Subjects were clients of a university counseling center. Intake counselors' liking of clients was related to their rating of the realism of clients' stated goals, clients' motivation for counseling, and clients' physical appearance. Low correlation was found between liking for clients and clients' positive ratings of experience and counselor.…

The question is asked, "How many gifts in total were given in 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' song," and is shown to relate to several other problems. Most of the number patterns and partitions dealt with are viewed to be usable with students in junior and senior high school. (MP)

Three ideas are shared: using geometric figures in motivational practice of order operations with prealgebra students; constructing a test with a holiday theme to increase student interest; and coding greeting cards for students that can be solved mathematically through the use of previously learned concepts. (MP)