Focuses on one cognitive strategy, metacognition, and describes the success of this strategy with students of varying ages and abilities. Provides a six-step model for implementing strategy instruction in the classroom. (RS)

Presents the educational rationale for differentiated reading programs for gifted students in reading. Describes gifted readers, delineates general features of differentiated programs, and presents specifically recommended models of reading programs for the gifted. (RS)

A study tested a structural model that involves training variables and work environment variables in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. Data collected from 113 people with a disability in the training program and work environment indicated psychological support and suitability of the training environment positively affected their views of their…

This article suggests how traditional approaches to policy inquiry can be reconsidered in light of the research inquiry and communicative skills needed by all policy researchers. A 15-year review of both policy and discourse processes research suggests ways to conduct policy studies within a communicative framework. (Author/SLD)

The Integrative Processing Model guides students in thinking about their field experiences so that they systematically draw upon various components of their education (such as knowledge, skills, self-awareness, and professional values) to inform their work. The model assists students in maintaining an integrative focus in the field experience.…

Presents eight historical consensus models for teaching chemical kinetics. Models put forth by teachers and textbooks in a Brazilian secondary classroom were analyzed and discussed and found to be hybrids of the historical models. The existence of hybrid models in science teaching is proposed as a new component in science teachers' training…

Describes a model for conducting functional assessment in the home. The model uses a trans-disciplinary technical-assistance team to assess and plan interventions for young children with severe challenging behaviors. Discussion includes the kind of information needed, specific examples of data collection in the home, and the benefits and barriers…

Reports on a theoretical model of structured document indexing and retrieval based on the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence. Highlights include passage retrieval, hypertext, relevance, information needs, implementation of the model, an evaluation scheme designed to test the model's effectiveness, and results of experiments that investigated…

Describes the 6 E's approach which enhances student learning and encourages stronger conceptual connections. Provides step-by-step details of how the 6E Teaching/Learning Model was incorporated during the Make It R.E.A.L. Institute. (CCM)

Conceptualizes a framework for conducting critical classroom-discourse analysis. Critiques the scope and method of current models of classroom-interaction analysis and classroom-discourse analysis and advocates using poststructuralist and postcolonialist understandings of discourse to develop a critical framework for understanding what actually…

This article contrasts the traditional relationships between researchers and subjects in traditional rehabilitation evaluation and research with relationships between researchers and clients-consumers in new methodologies. Collaborative research, characterized by shared power and non-hierarchical authority between client-consumers and researchers…

Describes a one-day psychoeducational group for survivors of a recent organizational downsizing. Principal goal of the group is to prevent "Layoff Survivor Syndrome" through instruction and group exercises designed to normalize common responses and increase awareness of positive coping strategies. Provides descriptions of group…

Discusses the need to develop theoretical models, both behaviorist and constructivist, for distance learning design and methods of assessment. Topics include metaphors; sources of model development and delivery; organization of learning; and sources for research and evaluation, including comparison group research designs and within group variance…

After a discussion of the underutilization of cost analysis in education, this article offers several explanations for the relative scarcity of cost-based evaluations in education and considers the potential for greater use of such studies. Developing frameworks to unpack costs may be a way of bringing about greater use of cost-based evaluation.…

Provides abstracts of 84 presentations on educational models, telecommunications, distance learning, human resources development, research, interprofessional roles, educational challenges, and innovations in allied health. (SK)