The main purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of conceptual change text (CCT) oriented instruction over traditionally designed instruction on students' understanding of electrochemical (galvanic and electrolytic) cell concepts. The subjects of the study consisted of 64 students from the two classes of a high school in Turkey.…

Many conceptions of the educated person have been suggested by philosophers and thinkers on education. A brief overview of a selection of these conceptions appears in the first section of this article, and sets the analytical stage for the presentation of the conception of the educated person embodied in the Theory of Question Oriented Education…

How learning is understood in everyday schooling and conceptualized in research varies a great deal, as does the way in which writing is used for enhancing learning. This paper reviews recent research conducted mainly in Europe, North America, and Australia to outline what kind of challenges research is facing at the moment. The paper begins with…

This annotated bibliography on "Speaking across the Curriculum" cites resources by topics. The bibliography is divided into the following topics: (1) Centrality of Speaking/Listening to Learning (9 citations, 1967 to 2002); (2) Public Relations (4 citations, 1995 to 1999); (3) Speaking/Communication across the Curriculum Programs (39…

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning has embarked on a journey to build literacy-focused high-performing learning communities--defining high-performing learning communities as organizations that have: shared vision; challenging curriculum aligned to instruction and assessment measures; a culture of continuous learning and improvement;…

This study investigates the difficulties first year chemistry students have with learning the concept of energy. Students have difficulty understanding heat and work as path functions and energy as a state function. Textbooks analysis, the evaluation of current practice and teaching experiments, and epistemological analysis were conducted during…

Is the way being lost in teaching science? Many primary schools do not have a well developed culture of science teaching and learning, there is a declining interest in science over the years 7 to 10, and there are proportionally fewer students continuing onto science in the senior years. In response to these concerns, the Victorian Department of…

This reader brings together work by Howard Gardner and his colleagues at Project Zero (Harvard Graduate School of Education) to provide a coherent picture of what has been learned about the educational applications of multiple intelligences theory from school projects and formal research over the past decade. The chapters are: (1) "In a Nutshell";…

This paper focuses on the process of knowledge formation and scientific inquiry. Science laboratory settings may provide opportunities for students to participate in scientific inquiry. With scientific inquiry, students develop their beliefs according to experiences in which they use their prior knowledge, experimentation, and problem solving…

Article describes a career program evaluation model which emphasized an employer evaluative data base. (Author/RK)

In a nonmetric multiple-cue probability learning task involving 2 binary cue dimensions, it was found that Ss can learn to use configural or pattern information (a) when only the configural information is relevant, and in addition to the configural information, one or both of the cue dimensions are relevant. (Author/RK)

The present experiment uses a variation of the repeti design of Hebb (1961) to ask the question of the fate of individual items in the Brown-Peterson task at a time when, if interference does indeed dissipate, the old items that produce interference should no longer be available to compete with new items. (Author)

Different groups of 27 Ss learned lists of high- or low-imagery nouns or adjectives in a part-whole transfer experiment. (Editor)

Examined the role of school experiences in the preparation of teachers. (Author/RK)

Article concentrated on the academics of the Learning Community and mini-courses within the Community. (Author/RK)