Since instructional materials are important to the educational development of students, their proper selection and use is fundamental. Each student should be considered individually, and course materials should be made available on levels which provide a variety of reading experiences, encourage critical thinking, and motivate creative activity.…

Fifty, secondary school English, mathematics, history, and science teachers participated in a content-area reading inservice program which lasted for two academic years. The study was designed to determine how the program influenced teachers' attitudes and concerns about, and knowledge and use of content reading instructional strategies. Results…

The problem dealt with here is that of developing evaluation procedures that will determine, through objective evidence, the merit of a demonstration project that uses an infusion approach to career education in an ongoing school system. The design of this process has emerged from the Occupational Competence Access Project. (Author)

Study examined how secondary student teachers in history read and interpreted historical texts, constructed truthful accounts, and approached an epistemology of history. Subjects read and thought about the same eight documents. Results indicated that the nature of student teaching may not lend itself well to reflection on epistemological matters.…

Results are reported from a study of the learning styles of 306 high school students. The study examined learning style characteristics (abstraction, concreteness, reflection, activity); comparisons between adolescent and adult learning styles; and differences between freshmen and seniors, males and females, and slow-track and fast-track learners.…

Researchers revised a psychological assessment of organization in memory to measure organization in thinking. Secondary students viewed a videotape, wrote essays, then created word trees using provided words that eliminated the memory component in their original task. The ordered-tree technique reliably measured organization in thinking.…

Twenty-two undergraduate student teachers participated in a question-answer strategy training program. This study evaluated the effects of that training on teacher questions and learner responses. Methodology and results are reported. (JL)

Preservice teachers worked in groups containing diverse personalities and participated in laboratory experiences that applied classroom knowledge. Surveys indicated students considered the laboratory activities more valuable and influential than field experiences in many ways. The most diverse cohorts reported stronger, more positive feelings…

This study used qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the effects on students' learning, motivation, attitude, participation, and critical thinking when prediction activities were used in teaching genetic concepts in high school biology. The prediction activities enhanced students' critical analysis, interest, and participation.…