In many school districts, the pressure to raise test scores has created overnight celebrity status for formative assessment. Its powers to raise student achievement have been touted, however, without attending to the research on which these claims were based. Sociocultural learning theory provides theoretical grounding for understanding how…

Education is the key to young people becoming full partners in shaping a global future and in shaping the nation's future. Quality basic education for young people is key to maintaining Alberta's standard of living and ensuring competitiveness in the world market. The education system must focus on what all students need to learn and be able to…

Computer-supported discursive learning (CSDL) systems for the support of asynchronous discursive learning need to fulfill specific socio-technical conditions. To understand these conditions, we employed design experiments combining aspects of communication theory, empirical findings, and continuous improvement of the investigated prototypes. Our…

Innovation is crucial to the competitiveness of the economies of Europe, and learning is crucial to innovation. The most important trend shift is not that knowledge is becoming more important but that it is becoming obsolete more rapidly than before, so that firms and employees constantly have to learn and acquire new competencies. This involves…

At mid-twentieth century, the dominant framework for lesson design--the programmed instruction format--was derived from efforts to apply operant conditioning to human learning. Cognitive psychology soon offered an alternative view, represented by Robert Gagne's Events of Instruction, which became the dominant framework through the end of the…

Educational belief, events, and associations in the lives of Parker and Dewey establish the existence of a debt owed to Parker for the pedagogy Dewey implemented in his experimental work at the University of Chicago's model laboratory school. (Author/CM)

To ensure that cooperative education is academically sound, a unique learning methodology has been developed. Students are required to express insights from the cooperative experience which illuminate, reinterpret, or extend classroom learning. (JOW)

The author appraises the new materials for ages 9-11, "Nuffield Combined Science Themes for the Middle Years," and reflects on teaching tactics for the 1980s. (Editor/SJL)

Parallels between accepted educational practices and the provisions of Public Law 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) are presented. Each of the nine provisions of the act are stated and discussed, including areas such as individualized educational programs and mainstreaming. (PHR)

It is suggested that feasible current approaches to language teaching are "principled," in that there is perhaps a finite number of general, widely accepted, research-based principles upon which classroom practice is grounded. Twelve such principles--categorized as cognitive, affective, and linguistic principles--are discussed. (13 references) (LB)

Presents an allegorical and humorous story about the development of teaching methods (traditional and discovery) in Paleolithic culture. (SR)

Outlines the concept and development of environmental education and the future implications to teachers in Bophuthatswana. Defines and discusses an integrated approach to teaching approaches in environmental education. (Contains 17 references.) (MDH)

Despite huge efforts to position information and communication technology (ICT) as a central tenet of university teaching and learning, the fact remains that many university students and faculty make only limited formal academic use of computer technology. Whilst this is usually attributed to a variety of operational deficits on the part of…

This article (re)introduces readers to some of the extensive literature written in English on the theory and practice of feminist pedagogy in higher education. Whether feminist pedagogy is conceived of as a strand of critical pedagogy, a particular variant of student-centred teaching, or a vital dimension of the Women's Studies project, its impact…

The educational system of the future must embrace a learner-centered perspective to maximize high standards of learning, motivation, and achievement for all learners--for both students and their teachers. The learner-centered perspective begins with a focus on knowing and understanding each learner in the context of a deep understanding of the…