This research is an initial investigation into the ways community-based learning increase the cognitive skills central to the exercise of the sociological imagination. In addition to identifying a means to reveal that learning had occurred, we looked for evidence that the students were mastering sociological content, especially the concepts and…

One of the author's most vivid and early memories of "learning about religion" comes from when she was in seventh grade, and her math teacher scolded her and her friend for arguing about religion in the back of the room. Both of them were deeply steeped in family religious practice, and new to each other's traditions. That experience was…

This paper examines how two sites of adult learning in the food movement create educational alternatives to the dominant U.S. food system. It further examines how these pedagogies challenge racialised, classed and gendered ideologies and practices in their aims, curricular content, and publically documented educational processes. The first case is…

Project CRISS[R] (CReating Independence through Student-owned Strategies) is a professional development program for teachers that aims to improve reading, writing, and learning for 3rd- through 12th-grade students. The implementation of Project CRISS[R] does not require a change in the curriculum or materials being used in the classroom, but…

Relatively few studies have focused on two-year college BSN transfer students and the unique features that predict their educational outcomes. Conducting one-on-one interviews with seven students from one of three University of Wisconsin baccalaureate institutions who had transferred to a four-year institution from either a two-year University of…

This interdisciplinary project examined how students think and feel about their learning in race-related diversity courses. Students in four classes (literature, psychology, geography) reflected on cognitive and affective dimensions of their own and their classmates' learning. The Color Blind Racial Attitudes Scales (CoBRAS) confirmed qualitative…

THIS IS AN ANECDOTAL STUDY BASED UPON PUBLISHED WORKS OF BIOGRAPHERS, HISTORIANS, AND ETHNOGRAPHERS PLUS UNCONTROLLED AND UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEWS AND REMINISCENCES OF PEOPLE WHO REPORTED EXPERIENCES IN TRYING TO TEACH MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES. THE STUDY WAS ENTIRELY EXPLORATORY AND DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HYPOTHESES ABOUT THE CONDITIONS…

This article presents the results of a three-year study of "Gamestar Mechanic" (www.gamestarmechanic.com), a flash-based multiplayer online role-playing game developed for the MacArthur Foundation's digital media learning initiative by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Gamelab in New York. The game's objective is to help children…

THE EFFECTS OF INTERPOLATED ITEMS ON THE LEARNING AND RETENTION OF INDIVIDUAL STIMULUS-RESPONSE (S-R) UNITS IN PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING WERE INVESTIGATED. EXPERIMENTS WERE DESIGNED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF INTERFERENCE PRODUCED BY OTHER ITEMS WHICH OCCUR NATURALLY WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A STANDARD PAIRED-ASSOCIATE TASK. IN ADDITION, SEVERAL…

THE EFFECTS OF INSTRUCTIONS, TYPE OF LABEL, TYPE OF CONCEPT, AND SEQUENCE OF CONCEPTS BY TYPE UPON CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION WERE INVESTIGATED IN THIS STUDY. PERFORMANCE WAS ANALYZED IN TERMS OF FOUR TYPES OF TEST ITEMS. INSTRUCTION, FOCUSING ON THE CONCEPT TO BE ATTAINED AND THE CONCEPT NATURE, WAS FOUND TO FACILITATE CONCEPT IDENTIFICATION…

THE EFFECTS OF TWO TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING CHILDREN'S LITERATURE TO SAMPLES OF FIRST-GRADE CHILDREN WERE INVESTIGATED. THE EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT WAS BASED ON LAWRENCE KUBIE'S MODEL OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS. THE CONTROL GROUP RECEIVED THE CONVENTIONAL PRESENTATION OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WITHOUT KUBIE'S EMPHASIS ON METAPHORICAL AND PRECONSCIOUS…

THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO COMPARE THE CONCEPT ATTAINMENT BEHAVIOR EFFECTS OF (1) OPTIMAL AND MINIMAL INSTRUCTION, (2) TWO LEVELS OF MONETARY INCENTIVE, AND (3) HIGH AND LOW COMPETITION. EIGHTY COLLEGE STUDENTS WERE GIVEN TWO CONCEPT ATTAINMENT TASKS. ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE WAS USED TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF INSTRUCTIONS, MONETARY…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO IDENTIFY AND CLASSIFY THE STRATEGIES OF INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS IN ATTAINING CONCEPTS AND TO RELATE THE VARIOUS STRATEGIES TO EFFICIENCY OF LEARNING. THE PROJECT, CONSISTING OF A SERIES OF 10 EXPERIMENTS, WAS CARRIED OUT OVER A 3-YEAR PERIOD. IN EACH SUCCESSIVE SEMESTER AND SUMMER SESSION, STUDENTS ENROLLED IN EDUCATIONAL…

THE VALUE OF A NEW PROCEDURE FOR ASSESSING VERBAL PERFORMANCES OF SUPERIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WAS STUDIED. THE INSTRUMENT CONSISTED OF TWO PARTS. IN PART A, THE STUDENT WAS GIVEN AN ANALOGY AND ASKED TO IDENTIFY THE MOST LOGICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO ELEMENTS IN IT. HE WAS THEN ASKED TO WRITE A DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATIONSHIP IDENTIFIED.…

PROBLEM-SOLVING THEORIES IN THREE AREAS - TRADITIONAL (STIMULUS-RESPONSE) LEARNING, COGNITIVE-GESTALT APPROACHES, AND COMPUTER AND MATHEMATICAL MODELS - WERE SUMMARIZED. RECENT EMPIRICAL STUDIES (1960-65) ON PROBLEM SOLVING WERE CATEGORIZED ACCORDING TO TYPE OF BEHAVIOR ELICITED BY PARTICULAR PROBLEM-SOLVING TASKS. ANAGRAM,…