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Waterman, David C., Comp.; Gibbs, Vanita M., Comp. – 1981
Focusing on reading for enjoyment, the seven articles in this collection were drawn from the Tenth Annual Reading Conference held at Indiana State University. Topics discussed in the articles are: (1) reading aloud to students, (2) how to have fun while teaching vocabulary, (3) the enjoyment and affective dimensions of "EAS into Reading," (4)…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Enrichment, Literature Appreciation, Motivation Techniques
Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1979
This report presents a synthesis of a day-and-a-half interactive conference on research and development in reading attended by a group of reading specialists from Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas representing their state departments of education. It includes the two presentations "A Sampling of Research Within Reach"…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Class Organization, Classroom Techniques, Conference Reports
New England On-Line Users Group. – 1978
The proceedings of this meeting on online service administration comprise the three papers presented: one written by Helen G. Drinan concerning costing and budgeting for online information services; one by Robert McDermand on marketing, publicizing, and other service aspects of online searching; and one by Donna R. Dolan pertaining to the training…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Information Retrieval, Information Services, Library Administration
Florida Univ., Gainesville. Coll. of Education. – 1974
This collection focuses on the issue of collaboration in teacher education. Essays, program descriptions, materials development reports, and educational policy discussions debate the role collaboration may play, and argue the relative effectiveness of various programs based on cooperative effort of different genres. The Florida model in particular…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum
Figurel, J. Allen, Ed. – 1963
This book is a collection of 75 papers presented and discussed at the 1963 International Reading Association conference, which promoted "Reading as an Intellectual Activity" as its theme. Papers from the conference are presented in the following four groups: main addresses, thirteen sequences of papers on different facets of reading…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Content Area Reading, Intellectual Development, Linguistics
London Univ. (England). Inst. of Education. – 1975
Some of the difficult problems related to introducing greater accountability for teaching were assessed and tentative policies considered at a British conference on higher education held in April 1975. R.C. Tress, Peter Kennedy, R. Rickett, Tom Driver, Marcus Merriman, and Alastair Stewart are the authors of the first set of papers entitled…
Descriptors: Accountability, Case Studies, College Faculty, College Instruction
Jelinek, James J., Ed. – 1973
The proceedings of the 21st annual meeting of the Far Western Philosophy of Education Society in 1972 are presented. The proceedings consisted of 20 addresses and responses. Titles include (1) Presidential Address: Competency-Based Education: Consensus Cognoscenti Versus Reconstructio Experientiae; (2) A Role for Philosophy in California and…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Conference Reports, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
1974
Six lectures presented by TESOL experts for the 1973 Annual Defense Language Institute are summarized and discussed here. The first paper, by John B. Carroll, "Some Suggestions from a Psycholinguist," concerns the relationship between learning and memory. Albert H. Marckwardt, in "The Dictionary as an English Teaching Resource," recommends the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Conference Reports, Dictionaries, English (Second Language)
Seittelman, Elizabeth E., Ed. – 1974
This booklet provides abstracts of the proceedings of a conference on reading conducted on 27 April 1974 by the Department of Teacher Preparation of York College of the City University of New York. The following conference presentations are discussed: "Reading Readiness--What Do I Believe?" (Lilyan Peters), "Preschool as a Language…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Childrens Literature, Conference Reports, Elementary Education
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Walsh, Mary Roth – Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1988
Reports on the American Psychological Association preconvention workshop, New York City, August 1987. Among the speakers were Mary Walsh, Janet Hyde, Bernice Lott, Margaret Matlin, and Juanita Williams, all of whom discussed strategies they employ in teaching the psychology of women. (BJV)
Descriptors: Activism, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies, Females
Linehan, Patrice; Markowitz, Joy – 2002
This document presents the proceedings of a February 2002 policy forum on whole class reading strategies for students with disabilities. The forum was convened in conjunction with the last of three satellite teleconferences on reading instruction. The forum focused on identifying challenges of using whole class strategies with students with…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role
Mays, Marilyn Elaine, Ed. – 1998
Presented at a 1996 conference on the implications of the Human Genome Project for community and technical colleges, the 30 papers included in this monograph describe methods for incorporating genetics studies into the two-year college curriculum. Among the papers provided are: (1) "Facing the Unknown: The Ethical Challenges of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, DNA, Educational Strategies
Dayton-Sakari, Mary, Ed.; Miller, Carole S., Ed.; Liedtke, Werner, Ed. – 1997
This proceedings contains 19 papers presented at the second annual faculty conference at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). Papers cover a wide variety of disciplines, including preschool education, classroom communication, mathematics instruction, theater, attention deficit disorders, distance learning by rural home schoolers,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Educational Strategies
Fix, Michael, Ed.; Turner, Margery Austin, Ed. – 1998
This collection is based on the fact that employment, housing, and consumer rights and opportunities are often inextricably linked and mutually dependent. The papers explore aspects of creating a national report card on discrimination, assessing the role that testing and other social science methodologies might play in its formulation. The papers…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Evaluation Methods
Janosik, Steven M., Ed.; Creamer, Don G., Ed.; Alexander, M. David, Ed. – 2000
This monograph contains the invited papers of the major speakers at the Educational Policy Institute's Invitational Conference on Quality in Higher Education held at Oxford University, summer 2000. The purpose of the conference was to discuss how quality is being defined and measured in the context of higher education. The papers are: (1) "Quality…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Distance Education, Educational Quality, Equal Education
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