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Cumming, Joy; Kimber, Kay; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – English in Australia, 2011
Attainment of functional English literacy skills by all students has been a focus of Australian national policy since the 1989 Hobart Declaration (MCEETYA, 1989). This focus underpins current educational accountability policy enacted through the National Assessment Program-Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). The Adelaide and Melbourne Declarations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Accountability, Functional Literacy
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Morrison, Mark; Sweeney, Arthur; Heffernan, Troy – Journal of Marketing Education, 2006
Debate over the link between student learning styles and effective teaching has a long tradition, made more interesting by Karns's recent article "Learning Style Differences in the Perceived Effectiveness of Learning Activities." Fundamentally he asserts, in critiquing Morrison et al. (2003), that marketing educators should not adopt "a high…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Teaching Styles, Learning Modalities, Instructional Effectiveness
Dunn, Rita; Griggs, Shirley A. – 1988
Case study observations and analyses of learning styles in U.S. secondary schools comprise the crux of this monograph. The text provides testimony to the accomplishments of schools actually integrating differentiated learning styles into their diverse educational programs and concomitant coursework. With the notion that learning style provides…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Cognitive Style, Educational Change, Experimental Teaching