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Gallant, Tricia Bertram, Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2008
The historical examination of academic integrity in this monograph demonstrates that student academic conduct has always been strongly connected to faculty work, institutional structures, context, and organizational pressures. Student affairs professionals, faculty, and other campus constituents who have struggled with reducing academic misconduct…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Cheating, Learning Strategies, Integrity
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Astin, Alexander W. – About Campus, 1996
Offers reflections on a former president's remarks concerning service and describes what one university organization is learning about volunteerism and community service on campus. Identifies likely participants in service projects and discusses the benefits of service; ways to promote service participation, service and leadership; and service and…
Descriptors: College Role, College Students, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
Huddart, Stephen; Naherniak, Craig – Taproot, 1996
Cites the benefits of having students care for an animal in the classroom; offers strategies for teaching students the proper care and treatment of animals; and provides guidelines for choosing the right classroom pet and instructions for building a small habitat. Describes a teacher's experience in using a classroom pet to help students learn…
Descriptors: Animals, Educational Benefits, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Development
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Dealtry, Richard – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2004
This article defines the cultural nature and scale of change in learning consciousness that has to take place when the organizationally-based adult learner makes the transition from formal prescriptive learning practice to self-owned, self-directed learning. It articulates some of the learning-to-learn process models that introduce, accelerate,…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Independent Study
Cohen, Andrew D. – 1990
A review of the literature on strategies used by students to learn a second language suggests that the research can offer important insights into teaching learners who do not naturally arrive at successful learning strategies. Raising students' consciousness to the options for language learning is seen as crucial. It is also proposed that learner…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Language Skills
Lens, Willy; Simons, Joke; Dewitte, Siegfried – 2002
This chapter furthers the discussion of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation by contending that learning and studying are multidetermined and that intrinsic motivation is typically accompanied by extrinsic motivation. The chapter begins with a discussion of the concept of future time perspective as a cognitive-motivational personality…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Goal Orientation
Forness, Steven R.; Sweeney, Dwight P.; Wagner, Steven R. – Reaching Today's Youth: The Community Circle of Caring Journal, 1998
Claims that learning strategies and social skills training are likely to be important for most students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, both in regular and special education classrooms. Emphasizes the importance of combining treatment strategies. (MKA)
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Modification, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lightbown, Patsy M. – TESL Canada Journal, 1986
The English-as-a-second-language teacher's role is explored, with five specific areas of responsibility elaborated: (1) providing comprehensible input; (2) preparing learners to cope with nonclassroom language; (3) providing references and resource materials; (4) providing focused instruction in particular areas of language; and (5) providing…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Feedback