This conversation guide is the second companion piece to the Foundation for Child Development's "Getting it Right: Using Implementation Research to Improve Outcomes in Early Care and Education" (ED606115) and "Getting it Right: The Conversation Guide for Preparing the Next Generation of Implementation Researchers" (ED615900)…

Provides a content model for the study of technology, described as a body of knowledge and the application of resources using a systematic approach (the technological method) to produce outcomes in response to human needs and wants. (Author)

Presents three pages on the relationship between teaching and the writing of history. Conclusions are that teachers involved in historiography better understand their students; writing history and teaching history are two steps of the same process; and the relationship between history as it is written and taught is tenuous to students. (Author/KC)

The authors review some of the literature which discusses the controversy over the value of homework and then offer 11 prescriptions for teachers to follow when making homework assignments. They suggest the need for additional research into the learning processes in children. (KC)

Metacognition has received recent attention by researchers and teachers alike because of the possibilities for successful instruction and intervention for readers at all levels. This paper explores the area of metacognition as it relates specifically to reading comprehension. The paper addresses six areas: (1) the definitions of metacognition,…

The article outlines a series of mathematical tasks for gifted students (aged 7-12 years), stressing the value of research and inservice education that is firmly teacher and classroom based. (Author/DB)

Teleconferencing as a teaching topic lacks suitable textbook readings and research with educational, rather than business, applications. Discusses reasons for the shortage, informally surveys existing materials, and suggests a model for future research that the teacher can apply and use. (PD)

Suggests a method for introducing university students to the notion that apparently straight-forward scientific research may contain ideological flaws. Explores researchers who have undertaken debates in their literature and classifies their ideologies as either aware or unaware. (Author/KC)

Contends that shared teaching is an innovative way to balance teaching and research. Provides a review of the literature on the topic and examines two distinct shared teaching models. Proposes opportunities for further study looking at whether shared teaching is more effective in graduate or undergraduate courses, and whether some areas of…

Provides suggestions for college science faculty that may encourage educational research in postsecondary science education with an emphasis upon what kinds of research questions are worth pursuing. (PR)

Advocates cooperative learning as an instructional model for use by middle and high school social studies teachers to improve students' understanding of content and encourage students to become actively and constructively involved in the learning process. Describes five cooperative learning strategies appropriate for the social studies classroom…

Intended to help students overcome their reading and spelling difficulties, this booklet describes teaching reading and spelling using the notion of five types of English words and presents extensive word lists to teach each type of word. The five types of words discussed in the booklet are "simple" (words that follow regular phonic…

Written for teachers, researchers, and theorists who have grown up in a world radically different from that of the students they teach and study, this book addresses the importance of developing within children and adolescents a critical awareness of the social, political, and economic messages emanating from the different forms of popular…

When English instructors functioning simultaneously as researchers study the reading and writing processes of their own students, it is important that they fully describe the context within which the study takes place and the effect that the dual instructional/research environment has on the participants, who are, similarly, functioning as both…

Louise Rosenblatt's reader response theory can be applied effectively to film study in the classroom. Although there are differences between film and literature, the processes that one uses to make sense of literature and film are similar, and Rosenblatt's theory provides not only a valuable addition to film theory, but teachers of film study will…