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Fostaty Young, Sue – International Journal for Academic Development, 2008
A key component of academic development is the improvement of teaching with the express purpose of improving student learning. To achieve that end, we work toward helping faculty members develop increasingly sophisticated and complex conceptions of teaching so that they might more readily think about teaching in new ways. Models of learning and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Faculty Development, Epistemology, Cluster Grouping
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McAuley, J. D.; Johnson, James – Education, 1972
Descriptive method proved more effective than the inquiry method in presenting concept clusters. (MB)
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Ability, Concept Formation, English (Second Language)
Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. Div. of Vocational, Technical and Adult Education. – 1972
This teaching guide for the elementary grades contains summaries, in a four-column format, of (1) concepts, (2) activities, (3) resources and references, and (4) linking content, for career education activities in the following fields: (a) community industries, (b) agricultural occupations, (c) distributive education, (d) health occupations, (e)…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Career Awareness, Career Education, Cluster Grouping
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Fulcher, Glenn – System, 1997
Addresses the accessibility of texts produced by the Overseas Development Administration. This research analyzes a corpus of texts and shows that factors making the texts difficult include poor linguistic structure, contextual structure, conceptual structure, and unclear operationalisation of the reader-writer relationship. (18 references)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audience Awareness, Cluster Grouping, Concept Formation