In a six-week study involving seventh- to ninth-grade students in a summer corrective reading program, neither the holistic nor the subskill treatment had a significant advantage in improving student reading comprehension or attitude toward reading. (JT)

Strategies to develop creativity were given to high school teachers in a graduate course, Developing Creativity in Teaching. Higher degrees of creativity emerged when the groups used the instructor's clues to write a story and when group brainstorming and writing, as opposed to individual writing, were done. (Author/SJL)

A study of the impact of two methods of pelvic examination instruction on student performance and anxiety revealed no significant difference between the group that used professional patients and the control group that used clinic patients. However, a second anxiety instrument did reveal differences, and the instructional costs for the control…

This article compares three theories of the creative process taken from aesthetic philosophy: aesthetic enjoyment (D. W. Gotshalk), aesthetic experience (John Dewey), and aesthetic knowledge (Susanne Langer). Each shows different versions of the learning that accrues from creative activity. From this, curriculum planning and teaching suggestions…

In these studies, the structured content overview positively affected students' upper and lower level comprehension scores as compared to either vocabulary preteaching or control (no prereading) treatments. Vocabulary preteaching appeared to be more important with science than with history materials. (Author/SJL)

Three types of instructional guidelines (verbal, nonverbal, and demonstration) were tested to determine the type of instructional strategy that would result in junior and senior high school students' acquiring the largest amount of abstract learning related to a technical concept in industrial arts. Findings differed for the two age groups.…

Compared Introductory Physical Science (IPS) and Modified approaches to teaching physics concepts. Found that students' preinstruction ideas of matter and density were organized in commonsense theories that constrained understanding of density. Both curricula promoted quantitative understanding of mass, volume, and density, but the Modified…

Traditional diagnostic intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) are usually intended to be used as standalones whereas nondiagnostic tutors are designed for collaborative learning among students and between teachers and students. This article describes diagnostic and nondiagnostic ITSs, proposes a framework for comparing features of diagnostic and…

This article defines learning style, reviews the research on the learning styles of Asian-American adolescents, identifies the cultural values that appear to have an impact on their academic achievement, compares cognitive styles of major cultural groups, and discusses the implications of these findings for teaching and counseling. (Author/LRW)

Three types of higher education lecturing styles are described and their differences are discussed in the context of current conceptions of teaching and pedagogical principles. The three lectures are subsequently characterized as content-driven, context-driven, and pedagogy-driven. Evaluation data suggest that the more pedagogically oriented the…

Summarizes Hillock's findings regarding first-language composition instruction and compares them to research into second-language composition instruction. The article discusses implications for teaching writing to English-as-a-Second-Language students and recommends a process/product, task-based approach to writing instruction. (20 references)…

Discussion of evaluating academic journals for collection management decisions focuses on a methodological framework for evaluating journals not ranked by impact factors in Journal Citation Reports. Compares nonranked journals with ranked journals and then applies this framework to a case study in the field of medical science. (LRW)

Describes a quantitative study that compared the performance of two groups of advanced English-as-a-Second-Language students in a second semester composition course at the City University of New York (CUNY). Results suggest that students were twice as likely to pass into the second semester course when they were evaluated by portfolio rather than…

Presents the results of a study focusing on comparisons between teachers using a conventional, formal, direct approach when teaching five-year old children mathematical skills ("Official" method) and teachers employing a more interactive, collaborative, supportive approach ("High Scope" method). Includes references. (CMK)

Two models are presented to compare trainee and expert assessment strategies. The use of these procedures in assessment training programs is illustrated in a study of 5 postgraduate students in an environmental education course who were required to rate the work of 20 students. (SLD)