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Alert professional workers in teacher education are constantly seeking ways to help the young teacher gain greater insights with respect to the students under his direction. A technique not commonly presented at the preset-vice level has to do with the interpretation of sociometric test data. Mr. Ohlsen, director of student teaching in the College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana, clearly describes a procedure and cordially invites experimentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a seminar in the teaching of psychology that can be used by other academic departments as an initial model in the training of their teaching assistants. The seminar entitled "Principles and Methods of Teaching Psychology," was inducted at the University of Illinois in 1964. The seminar is open to any student who has completed at least one year of graduate work in psychology and is required to all students who is expected to be teaching assistants in the Department of Psychology. The objectives of the seminar are to help students prepare for jobs as teaching assistant, to improve the performance of those teaching assistants, and to teach and help students prepare for the various teaching positions.

With the data from two institutions, student ratings of courses and instructors were correlated with an index of productivity, a weighted bibliographic count. By using a highly reliable instrument for student evaluations, the University of Illinois ratings had small, statistically significant, linear correlations with research productivity. However, with an instrument of unknown reliability, the Indiana University data showed no statistically significant correlations between RPI and either global or comparative measures of teaching effectiveness. As might have been expected from the [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article profiles Kenneth E. Anderson, dean of the school of education at the University of Kansas. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 2, 1910. Anderson attained his Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts and Ph. D. degrees in 1932, 1934, and 1949 respectively. He has had numerous publications relating to education and science education in various educational publications, and had numerous experience in teaching. He was elected as the twenty-second president of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) at the 27th Annual Meeting of the NARST in Chicago, Illinois.