This study was conducted to determine whether or not a lack of emphasis on grammar instruction and exercises would impede students' abilities to overcome basic writing deficiencies. Both groups of students (intensive grammar instruction and minimal instruction) showed significant improvement in correcting high frequency errors in grammar and…

Presents a method for solving problems related to gas laws, the mole concept, molarity, heats of reactions, and other chemical concepts. Also presents another method which was devised to simplify the teaching of stoichiometric calculations using conversion factors. (JN)

How secondary students can be taught to think critically about the music they are performing is described. Classes must be structured to involve the student in analysis of performance options, experimentation, and conducting, as well as critical analysis of the teacher's interpretative decisions. (RM)

Discusses three techniques for improving students' research skills: "I" research or personal history, skimming and notetaking in library research, and interviewing. (HTH)

Expands the usual notion of critical reading from just the judgments readers make about the text to include judgments they make about their "reading" of the text. Describes activities to develop "executive" metacomprehension skills. (HTH)

Describes the Whimbey-Lochhead approach to help students develop problem-solving skills, providing instructions for using the approach in instructional programs. Includes a list of 70 tactics or heuristics used (or misused) in problem solving. Other ideas and information from books and articles on problem solving are included. (JN)

This third article in a series of six articles on typewriting as a communication skill discusses the following strategies for teaching/learning writing: Group Approach--Related Learning Guides, Reteach, Alternative Learning Materials, Dyad Learning (Peer Tutoring), Tutorcards, Involvement of Others, and Realistic Composition. (HD)

Effective teaching is systematic and well planned and student learning depends not only on student-based factors such as ability and prior knowledge, but also on the teaching context and on good management. Often, students need to be supported in gaining mastery in skills and new concepts. This paper outlines six examples of providing World Wide…

This digest focuses on teaching integrated skills in the English-as-a-Second/Foreign-Language classroom (ESL/EFL). Segregated-skill instruction is examined and two types of integrated-skills instruction are highlighted: content-based instruction and task-based instruction. The advantages of integrated-skill instruction are discussed, and five…

Outlines the academic premises made in traditional engineering education in comparison with the educational objectives of practice-directed curricula. Suggests that the practice-audit-study learning mode should be adopted in place of the lecture-homework-exam-grade system. (CC)

Article describes a math game for developing problem-solving skills and strategies in the classroom math lab. (Author/MM)

One teaching idea that has served to develop aesthetic sensitivity within the performance program involves the utilization of conducting by all students as a means of developing musical perception and responsiveness. (Author)

Describes the development of the Computer Tutor project in Palo Alto, California, a computer literacy pilot program in which tutors are used to teach high school students and other interested persons computer programing. (JJD)

Research suggests that good writers differ from poor writers. Teachers who develop prewriting exercises, emphasize multiple draft assignments, help the student think about revision, and evaluate the product can help undergraduates write and think more clearly. (Author/AM)