Tutors often make use of explanations that do not promote learning. One reason for the ineffectiveness of explanations might lie in tutors' failure to take into account a tutee's understanding in order to individualize instruction. To test whether tutors provide more effective explanations when they are assisted in assessing a tutee's…

This article reports a study designed to appraise teaching styles though students' perceptions. (Author)

This study examined the effects of similarity in competence between model and observer on the effectiveness of observational learning in argumentative writing. Results are consistent with the similarity hypothesis: weak learners learn more from focusing their observations on weak models, whereas better learners learn more from focusing on good…

A direct-instruction approach to computer-assisted instruction is proposed, with the corrective feedback paradigm. Features of the paradigm include adaptive feedback techniques with discrimination training and increasing ratio review. An experiment where 102 undergraduate students learned English-Japanese (transliterated) word pairs demonstrated…

Purpose of this experiment was to examine the effects of three sources of model content and two types of information content in an attempt to further clarify the effects of modeling procedures in teacher training. (Authors)

College students read a description of a male or female teacher of engineering or nursing who used an active, masculine or a passive, feminine teaching style. Ratings were made of variables reflecting the teacher's ability and performance, his or her masculinity, and his or her status. (Author/BJG)