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Download full textRPISE Reporter, 1988
Each issue of "PRISE Reporter" offers a feature article on educating handicapped students and provides descriptions of other information sources, continuing and completed research, and promising practices. The December 1987 issue contains an article by Martha Thurlow titled "A Skeleton in Our Closet? The Special Education…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Consultation Programs, Cooperative Learning, Disabilities
Instructional Exchange, 1990
The six editions of the newsletter provide a forum for the sharing of research findings and instructional strategies by faculty of Western Michigan University. Topics addressed include: active learning; lecture variations; lecture techniques; grading student participation; leading discussions; overcoming silence; discussion challenges; course…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Testing, Course Descriptions
Maxwell, Martha – Review of Research in Developmental Education, 1990
Studies suggest that developmental students like peer tutoring, are more relaxed with peers, and feel that peer tutoring helps their grades. However, the small number of studies on college tutoring provides no consistent evidence that underprepared students who are tutored improve either their grades or grade point averages. The students who do…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, High Risk Students
Peer reviewedAhrendt, Kenneth M., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1987
This collection of essays addresses various themes related to developmental education in two-year colleges. The collection contains: (1) "Responding to Criticism of Developmental Education," by Arthur M. Cohen, which answers six criticisms commonly leveled against remedial education; (2) "The Politics of Remediation," by Dennis McGrath and Martin…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Testing, High Risk Students
Hurst, Darrell, Ed.; Jobin, Robert, Ed. – VCCA Journal, 1991
This issue of the "VCCA Journal" contains the following articles: (1) "Dear Andrei--Dear Patricia: International Education in English Composition I," by Robert Kilmer; (2) "The Cultivation of Critical Thinking: Some Tools and Techniques," by Russell Crescimanno; (3) "Assessment Partnership: A Model for Two-Year…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Accounting, Administrative Organization
New Horizons in Education, 1995
The bilingual (Chinese/English) journal published annually for Hong Kong educators contains articles in a wide range of areas and at all levels of education. Articles include: "Micropolitics in Managing Bi-Sessional Primary Schools: A Case Study of the Interactions between Partner School Heads" (Cheung Wing-ming); "On Features of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Design, Distance Education, Educational Change
Woodward, Tessa, Ed. – Teacher Trainer, 1994
This document consists of the three issues of the journal "The Teacher Trainer" published in 1994. This journal is designed for those interested in modern language teacher training. It makes use of a variety of formats: article, letter, comment, quotation, cartoon, interview, spoof, Haiku ideas. Typical article topics during 1994…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Computer Oriented Programs
