What has been clear from the outset, however, is that the assignments have generated considerable effort on the part of students and a clear improvement in the quality of written products in the courses where they are usedConsider that after completing the journal publication assignment last year, a group of undergraduates have formed an editorial board, issued a prospectus and a call for papers and intend to publish the first issue of a jounral they call The Experiential Learner this fall as hard copy. Plans call for the journal to become electronic in the Spring of 1996. We are confident that efforts to demonstrate the effectiveness of these assignments will be successful. In both assignments, people other than the instructor are in receipt of the product. In the case of the journal publication assignment, practicing teachers read the journal issues.
Clients read the reports generated by graduate students in the case problems assignment.
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