College professors achieve the best academic results by matching their teaching methods with those learning styles most prominent in a particular class, or ideally, placing every student into a learning situation that best fits his most effective learning style. (JD)

Investigates effectiveness of advance organizers for teaching functioning and use of compilers to undergraduate students in computer science courses. Two experimental groups used the advance organizer while two control groups did not. Findings indicate that an explicitly concept-directed organizer is effective in providing a framework for…

Describes characteristics of distance education which promote lifelong learning, and introduces criteria for promoting lifelong learning in traditional university instructional settings. Topics discussed include the role of distance learning in higher education, teaching methods and learning strategies for both types of instruction, and Faure's…

This study showed that male and female physical education teachers in British Columbia, Canada, employ different teaching strategies. Male physical educators exert discipline and focus upon well-specified goals; female teachers avoid the use of forceful discipline and endorse broader, more diffuse goals. (RM)

Explains why cultural literacy, the shared information literate people take for granted, should be an educational aim. (EL)

Describes a program in which students were immersed in Russian culture and history in an effort to help them better understand the text of Turgenev's "Mumu." (FL)

This brief paper offers an overview of strategies, with practical examples, to infuse multicultural content into the curriculum for gifted students. It proposes a framework for multicultural gifted education based on the four levels or approaches of J. Banks and C. Banks and within each approach, the six levels of B. Bloom's taxonomy. The four…

Asserting that the ability to compare is basic to any cognitive process, this paper draws on Reuven Feuerstein's theory of mediated learning experience to guide teachers in encouraging the development of young students' spontaneous comparative abilities. Teachers are to provide students with concepts, labels, operations, and relationships to…

This volume makes the case for using culturally responsive teaching to improve the school performance of underachieving students of color. Key components of culturally responsive teaching are discussed. The chapters are: (1) "Challenges and Perspectives"; (2) "Power Pedagogy through Cultural Responsiveness"; (3) "The Power…

This document addresses frequently asked questions and issues and promotes greater understanding by administrators, teachers, and parents of the potential benefits of education standards for the rapidly increasing population of students whose first language is not English. The standards movement challenges educators and the public to understand…

A procedural task was demonstrated via videotape in two formats - one with motion, one using a series of still photographs. The sound tracks were identical. In two experiments the motion treatment was superior for some subjects and cuing arrows made no difference. (Author)

This study examines the effects of four different types of visuals used with television, slide-tape, and programed instruction (printed booklet) presentation. The same script was used with simple line drawings, detailed shaded drawings, photographs of a heart, and photographs of a heart model. In general, results favored programed instruction.…

Results indicated that females in the retention index treatment retained significantly more than females in either the choice or fixed group, while males in the choice treatment retained more than males in the other groups. (Author)

Contains citations of numerous references for curriculum guide writers. (RD)