A Manual For The Small Group Program Of The Grace Community Church, Danbury, Connecticut, With A Critical Evaluation

1984 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Engelthaler
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Group Program ◽  
Community Church

Science or Snake Oil? Teaching Critical Evaluation of “Research” Reports on the Internet

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Connor-Greene ◽  
Dan J. Greene
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Small Group Discussion ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Challenges

The proliferation of information on the Internet introduces new challenges for educators. Although the Internet can provide quick and easy access to a wealth of information, it has virtually no quality control. Consequently, the Internet has rendered faculty more essential than ever as teachers of the analytic and evaluative skills students need to become educated consumers of information. In this article we describe an exercise using small-group discussion and individual problem-based learning to teach critical thinking about the Internet. Data from the exercise and from student evaluations support both its need and students' perceptions of its effectiveness.

Sex Counseling with Groups in a General Hospital

1984 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Macaluso ◽  
Anne H. Berkman
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Sexual Problem ◽  
Counseling Program ◽  
Group Program ◽  
Sex Counseling ◽  
Health Related

Meeting a need not served by many hospitals, a sex counselor and a social worker developed a small group program to help patients deal with a health-related sexual problem. Its effectiveness indicates that it can serve as a model for a cost-effective, hospital-wide sex counseling program.

Women and Cultural Learning in Costa Rica: Reading the Contexts

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adele Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Cultural Adjustment ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Student Adjustment ◽  
Group Program

This article reviews research on Costa Rica’s cultural context, student adjustment, and tourism theory as they relate to U.S. women student experiences there. It includes insights from ethnographic observations and interviews collected during three years of residential direction of a shortterm, small-group program in Costa Rica. It introduces an applied anthropological tool, based on a cultural learning model of participant observation, which may be used by study abroad practitioners to guide student cultural adjustment more systematically.

Electron Microscopy of Metal-Matrix Composites

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 404-405
Author(s):  
A. Lawley ◽  
M. R. Pinnel ◽  
A. Pattnaik
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Metal Matrix Composites ◽  
Metal Matrix ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Elastic Behavior ◽  
Matrix Composites ◽  
Directionally Solidified ◽  
Fracture Characteristics ◽  
Broad Program

As part of a broad program on composite materials, the role of the interface on the micromechanics of deformation of metal-matrix composites is being studied. The approach is to correlate elastic behavior, micro and macroyielding, flow, and fracture behavior with associated structural detail (dislocation substructure, fracture characteristics) and stress-state. This provides an understanding of the mode of deformation from an atomistic viewpoint; a critical evaluation can then be made of existing models of composite behavior based on continuum mechanics. This paper covers the electron microscopy (transmission, fractography, scanning microscopy) of two distinct forms of composite material: conventional fiber-reinforced (aluminum-stainless steel) and directionally solidified eutectic alloys (aluminum-copper). In the former, the interface is in the form of a compound and/or solid solution whereas in directionally solidified alloys, the interface consists of a precise crystallographic boundary between the two constituents of the eutectic.

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