This paper presents a model for assessing the impact of interaction with faculty on student outcomes. Based on analyses of 1,500 freshman responses to Your First College Year survey, the study identified significant relationships between interaction with faculty and perceived growth in knowledge (r = 0.29, p less than or equal to 0.001); academic…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of students' responses to a cross-cultural science unit entitled "Maintaining health." The unit was designed to help students to build bridges between their traditional practices and beliefs and western science concepts. This paper reports students' responses to a pre-test and…

Background: As an instructional tool, teacher self-disclosure is used widely by teachers. While researchers abroad have conducted a number of studies, scarce literature on teacher self-disclosure has been found. Aims: This study aims to explore the Chinese pre-service teachers' perceived effects of teacher self-disclosure on student learning,…

The goal of the User-Centered Digital Library Project, conducted by the National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) at WGBH, was to adapt the Teachers' Domain online digital library to enable teachers and students with disabilities to more readily use the resources in science classrooms. NCAM added accessibility features such as captions and audio…

This publication consists of two reports that were commissioned by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization as background for its biennial report on world education. The first paper, "Educational Psychology and Teaching Methods in China: Developments and Trends," by Duan Huifen and others, indicates that…

Some personal reflections on instructional design and its relation to constructivism are explored. Instructional design in its present form is out of sync with the times in that its orientation, methods, and research base are behavioristic, or positivistic. However, a constructivist theory of instructional design is possible, particularly if…

This review provides a synthesis of selected research literature addressing the connection between social interaction and academic achievement, and the learning of children in the context of formal schooling. Evidence from approximately 100 research studies is presented which supports the hypothesis that human interaction is a critical factor in…

This experiment was designed to test the effect of immediate and delayed feedback on retention of learning in an educational situation. Four groups of college undergraduates took a multiple-choice computer-managed test. Three of these groups received informative feedback (the entire item with the correct answer identified) either: (1) immediately…

A typology of faculty-student relations is presented that focuses on the socialization process taking place within the cultures of college and university departments. By looking at relationships rather than separate roles, an attempt is made to explain the problem of social distance between and among specialists and ways of adaptation and creative…

TWO STUDIES IN CLOSED-CIRCUIT INSTRUCTIONAL TV WERE PERFORMED AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY. CLASSES SUBJECTED TO THE STUDY WERE SOCIAL SCIENCE AND ADVERTISING. THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO MEASURE COURSE RELATED STUDENT ATTITUDES. THE SOCIAL SCIENCE PROJECT WAS CONDUCTED OVER 3 DAYS. STUDENTS WERE DIVIDED INTO 18 EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS, SOME RECEIVING LIVE…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO--(1) INVESTIGATE AND DESCRIBE THE LEARNING CHARACTERISTICS OF A GROUP OF MENTALLY RETARDED, EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED CHILDREN, AND (2) TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACH TO THE REMEDIATION OF LEARNING DISABILITIES BY COMPARING THREE GROUPS--AN EXPERIMENTAL REMEDIAL TREATMENT GROUP, A COMPARISON…

This USMES unit challenges students to find the best way to learn or teach someone else certain things. The teacher resource book for this unit contains five sections. The first section describes the USMES approach to student-initiated investigations of real problems, including a discussion of the nature of the USMES "challenges" and of classroom…

Research in learning is examined for applications to physics education. Emphasis is placed on the learning of concepts, the organization of knowledge, and programed learning. Recommendations are made for conducting research in the following areas: analysis of the contents of physics in terms of learning tasks; better understanding of the child's…

The syllabus contains detailed information concerning an introductory college course in psychology. The primary objectives are to help the student acquire basic knowledge of vocabulary, concepts, methods and theories used by psychologists, and skills in interpreting psychological knowledge and applying it to daily life, everyday problems, and…

This study investigated the extent to which teachers teach more effectively as a result of practice. Each of 12 experienced teachers taught a three-lesson social studies unit to three successive classes of eight junior high school students. The classes were taught on different days during one week. At the end of the unit each student completed a…