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Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2015
In this webinar, Dr. William Schmidt of Michigan State University discussed helpful instructional tools for promoting the higher order conceptual thinking found in the Common Core Standards. The PowerPoint presentation and webinar recording are also available.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Common Core State Standards, Mathematical Concepts, Thinking Skills
Understanding Our Gifted, 2007
Joyce VanTassel-Baska is the Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education and the Jody and Layton Smith Professor of Education at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. For the past 20 years, the Integrated Curriculum Model, based on research of what works with gifted learners, has been the foundation of curriculum…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Units of Study, Gifted
Ruyle, Kim E. – 1988
Expert systems have made remarkable progress in areas where the knowledge of an expert can be codified and represented, and these systems have many potentially useful applications in education. Expert systems seem "intelligent" because they do not simply repeat a set of predetermined questions during a consultation session, but will have…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Authoring Aids (Programing), Expert Systems, Individualized Instruction
Ediger, Marlow – 2003
While a science teacher needs to be thoroughly grounded in science content and methodology, the science teacher also needs to be a reading teacher. Science experiments and demonstrations need to be integrated with reading in the science curriculum. Reading in science helps students with comprehension, the development of concepts and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Problem Solving
Ediger, Marlow – 2002
Reading in the content areas is a basic in the curriculum. The ability to read well involves a plethora of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Measurement of instruction involves the use of highly specific objectives in reading instruction. With a measurement philosophy of instruction, the following are important to consider: whatever exists, exists…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction
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Ohlsson, Stellan – Instructional Science, 1986
Research on intelligent tutoring systems is discussed from the point of view of providing moment-by-moment adaptation of content and form of instruction to the changing cognitive needs of individual learners. Implications of this goal for cognitive diagnosis, subject matter analysis, teaching tactics, and teaching strategies are analyzed. (Author)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation, Diagnostic Teaching
Tsai, Chia-jer; Derry, Sharon J. – 1987
An understanding-based approach to teaching arithmetic word problems is used in the Training Arithmetic Problem Solving Skills (TAPS) research project, for which four semantic schemas or problem representations have been revised and adopted: Combine, Compare, Change, and Vary. It is hypothesized that a good problem solver identifies the schema of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Drills (Practice), Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
International Society for Individualized Instruction, Chico, CA. – 1986
Papers presented at this conference focus primarily on the development of critical thinking and problem solving skills. Topics related to critical thinking include metacognition, curriculum development, and teaching strategies in foreign languages; teaching critical reading of literature to develop critical thinking skills; use of guided design in…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Critical Thinking, Humanities, Individualized Instruction
Smith, Stuart L. – 1982
The inabilitiy of the traditional education system to pay attention to the individual needs of students has been a central obstacle to effective education since the demand for universal education first led to the formation of rigidly-structured, large schools and classrooms. Use of computers now removes the need to teach all students the same…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Change
Levin, Barbara B. – Curriculum Review, 1985
Discusses specific ways to maximize microcomputer use in elementary and secondary schools including peer tutoring, individualized feedback, cooperative and discovery learning, tournament competition, drills and practice, student developed materials, creative problem solving, creative writing, databases, keyboarding, and student software…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Databases, Discovery Learning
Grobe, William J. – National Middle School Association (NJ3), 2005
In this article, the author discusses seven characteristics of classrooms that encourage maximum student participation in the education process: (1) democracy; (2) scientific method; (3) creativity; (4) change; (5) individualization; (6) socialization; and (7) problem solving. Using these concepts to make students part of the instructional…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Instructional Development, Thinking Skills, Scientific Methodology
Fletcher, Dexter – OSSC Report, 1984
Although many people in education are intimidated by the use of computer-based instruction (CBI), others are committed to exploiting the opportunities it provides. Three areas comprise CBI: instruction about computers, instruction by computers, and instruction using computers; the first two areas have received the most attention. (1) Attention to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction
Public Policy Inst., Albany, NY. – 1991
This report discusses the potential for computers and other educational technologies to aid in school restructuring in New York State. Issues involved in such a restructuring are examined and include: (1) the need for a common effort in creating a state program; (2) current practices and current realities in the classroom; (3) current uses of such…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Courseware
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Raven, John – British Educational Research Journal, 1990
Advocates revamping the British educational system from technical-rational content model to student-centered process programs designed to promote critical thinking, individual initiative, and communication skills. Discusses obstacles to this educational reform, emphasizing research orientation. Urges the British Educational Research Association to…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Flournoy, Don Michael – 1982
Trends in U.S. higher education, including the expansion toward and then withdrawal from the goal of universal educational opportunity, are examined. Problems are being experienced with regard to colleges and the commitment to flexibility in higher education, along with alternative education systems that operated parallel and complementary to the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, College Planning, College Role