Describes the use of a scientific phenomenon related to the concept of surface tension as an intriguing vehicle to direct attention to useful problem solving techniques. The need for a definite building process in attempts to solve mathematical problems is stressed. (EB)

The purpose of this paper is to provide a rationale for involving school counselors in the provision of feedback facilitated relaxation training. Focus will be on the nature and use of electromyographic feedback to teach muscle relaxation and the potential application of this training to educational settings. (Author)

This review focuses on instructional applications of computers, and their role and effects in the educational environment found in schools, colleges and universities. (Author)

In considering the use of open education to meet the needs of present and future generations, this article attempted to answer a few basic questions: 1) Why will not the old ways do? 2) Where is it all leading? 3) What are the characteristics of this new system? 4) What should this new system be like? (Author/RK)

The author reminds us that actions in education are based on ideas. The problem is to select those ideas (and ideals) of greatest value. (Editor)

Author reports on the movement towards children taking on the role of teacher. (Editor/RK)

The direction that college and university instruction must move to is to a more informal structure of teaching procedures. Moving from a formal to an informal classroom can be accomplished by use of a series of changes that can be implemented easily over a short period of time. (Author)

Article focused on making connections and showing people connections and helping them see and make their own connections within the school system as well as their social environment. (Author/RK)

Discussed the Learning Community, a minischool dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to academics. (Author/RK)

When a teacher strikes a child, he teaches the child that violence is a means of problem-solving. Discipline must not be spontaneous reactions to isolated incidents, but consistent actions that arise from a set of concepts and principles of behavior that are used inplanning and practicing the teaching-learning process. (Author/SDH)

The purpose of this study was to investigate how some ways of making sense of the world get privileged over others when teachers and students use specific educational films in specific learning environments. The methods of formalist and ideological film analysis are used to describe how educational films are distinct in their form and style from…

A study investigated the effect of providing students with varying forms of feedback during reading on students' estimates of understanding, actual comprehension scores, and students' use of rereading and reading rate adjustment. The 67 subjects were presented with passages to read, and their reading behavior was monitored via computer. Although…

The objectives of the 2-year Thinking Skills Project were to provide teachers and students with a set of thinking skills, to develop and validate a model of cognition for teachers, to devise a Measure of Questioning Skills, and to establish a normative base for this instrument. The model of essential thinking skills covers the basic processes: (1)…

Several researchers have examined the relationship between scales of the Inventory of Learning Processes (ILP) and the academic performance of college students. This study sought to determine whether there were significant correlations among levels of processing, locus of control, and achievement for college students. Subjects (N=50) enrolled in…

Adolescent underachievers may be, in fact, victims of insomnia or other types of sleep disorders. Insomnia is a greatly overlooked affliction that affects approximately 13% of the adolescent population, creating daytime side-effects that could impair intellectual functioning, such as imposing learning constraints. Poor sleepers among the…