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Urquhart, Vicki – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2012
You probably recognize this standard definition of a comet: "a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit." Add an accompanying photograph or diagram, and students "get" what a comet is, right? Science textbook publishers expect students to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Visual Impairments, Research and Development
QUILLING, MARY R.; AND OTHERS – 1968
REVIEWED ARE (1) THE ACTIVITIES OF RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION (R AND I) UNITS IN TWO MILWAUKEE SCHOOLS DURING THE 1966-67 SCHOOL YEAR, AND (2) THE RESULTS OF FIELD TESTING OF R AND I UNITS. PART 1 PROVIDES A DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE PROGRAM. PARTS 2 AND 3 REPORT AND EVALUATE THE RESULTS OF TWO CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS OF MOTIVATIONAL…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Closed Circuit Television, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Educational Technology Center, Cambridge, MA. – 1988
The Educational Technology Center (ETC) has devoted the last five years to studying ways of using the computer and other information technologies to teach understanding in science, mathematics, and computing in the nation's elementary and secondary schools. The Center's research has focused on targets of difficulty, topics and concepts that are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education