In this article, the author presents an innovative approach to teaching multiplication facts for children in middle school or younger. After introducing the dangers of some contradictions that persist, relating a brief summary of related research and guidelines regarding math facts and their relation to strategic approaches to more complex math,…

This study reports on New Zealand dairy farmers' access to and use of information as mediated through conditions of risk and trust within the context of their interpersonal social networks. We located participants' reports of their information use within their perceived environments of trust and risk, following Giddens's [1990. The consequences of…

This paper elaborates on the ways self-reflective practices that have sprung from within the postmodern discourse may conduce to meaningful learning, all without forgetting that the truth is idiosyncratic and that the highest human goals are barely teachable. Hence, rather than prescribing methodological "recipes," the paper looks at the…

Although exploring students' thought processes can be rewarding, most teachers rely heavily on reponses to tests and assignments that fail to disclose learners' thinking patterns. Concept maps grouping interrelated ideas can encourage students to demonstrate effective and meaningful assimilation of organized study areas. Includes five footnotes.…

This package contains four FORTRAN 77 programs for Markov Model based learning experiments. One program estimates the likelihood of a one-stage learning model, another delivers estimates for a two-stage learning model. The third and fourth were designed for hypothesis testing the parameter differences between and within experimental conditions,…

Describes a 12-hour workshop for potential 4-H judges in the home economics area. The workshop covered judging philosophy, judging skills, and clothing subject matter. Pretests and posttests were administered to determine knowledge gains and attitude shifts. (CH)

It is proposed that many phenomena of human hypothesis testing can be understood in terms of a general positive test strategy. With this strategy, there is a tendency to test cases that are expected to have the property of interest rather than those expected to lack that property. (Author/LMO)

This paper examines the rationale of the spirit, material, and method of education behind the Project Approach. The paper describes some of the conditions and opportunities offered by project work that support childrens dispositions to become lifelong learners. Also presented is a model of three avenues of engagement--curiosity, creativity, and…

Describes a method of teaching adult educators about learning through an analysis of their own learning processes. After general discussion about learning principles and differences between adults and children, a diagnostic exercise is used to develop a profile of individual learning styles. (SK)

Focuses on learning to be, or forming an identity within communities of practice. Discusses activity theory, re-conceiving an activity system, and technologies that support learning within communities of practices; and illustrates concepts through community-based examples such as universities and schools. (Author/LRW)

Presents efforts in exploring new ways for designing innovative pedagogical scenarios to support learning about complex domains that involve the design of interactive learning environments (ILE) to integrate systems supporting alternative ways of interaction with simulations with an emphasis on support for shared interaction to mediate social…

Considers well-structured problems versus ill-structured problems and presents models for how learners solve them, as well as models for designing instruction to support problem-solving skill development. Information processing theories of learning, an emerging theory of ill-structured problem solving, constructivist learning, and situated…

Reviews research on student learning of science conceptions and presents major findings. Traces changes in science teaching and learning over the last two decades and looks at a variety of teaching schemes that aim to support meaningful learning in science, some based on conceptual change. (Contains 13 references.) (Author/YDS)

Describes examples of how several students achieved their own learning connections across an integrated curriculum. Describes the use of a card-sort activity to help students construct their own connections. Suggests that student-constructed connections offer better learning opportunities for some students than teacher-constructed connections.…

Considers whether current definitions of interactivity in educational software are optimal and suggests a new model of interaction based on how learners interact mentally with new schema and on educational psychology. Discusses knowledge acquisition; production, or the creation of new knowledge; collaboration; and applying the learning interaction…