North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) describes constructivism as an approach to teaching and learning based on the premise that cognition (learning) is the result of "mental construction." In other words, students learn by fitting new information together with what they already know. Constructivists believe that learning is…

Tac Tix is a board game for two players having a mathematical optimum strategy for play. The strategy can be discovered by application of general problem solving techniques. (JP)

Equating cheating with clever solutions, copying with learning from observing a neighbor's work, and the notion that noise in a room is not conducive to learning are discussed. The author describes workshop situations in which teachers became aware of the burden such misplaced taboos places on their students' learning. (JP)

Studies are cited indicating better adjustment of handicapped students after courses in sex education. Surveys show that parents and teachers are aware of the need but little is being taught in the special education classes or in schools for the handicapped. Some basic principles of sex education are listed along with suggestions for teaching the…

This paper reevaluates the role of the counselor in light of the emergence of career education. A number of problems relating to career education and what the counselor should do about them are delineated. (RP)

Two functional dialects possessed by the same person must function concurrently in the education of the disadvantaged. The problems involved are discussed. (Editor)

Grade nine students (n=116) were assigned to five different algebra word problem test versions: textbook, student, pictorial, textbook plus pictorial, and student plus pictorial versions. Analysis by IQ levels yielded results different from those obtained in previous studies. (JP)

The advantages that the case study techniques offer to social studies teachers and to environmental education are pointed out from the experiences of a teacher education program in California. (Author/KM)

Explores strategies for developing self-concept in secondary school students with reading disabilities and possible personality problems. (RB)

Discusses uses of the process approach to teach problem solving techniques to education students enrolling in a noncalculus physics course. Indicates that the prospective teachers are given opportunities to do real problem solving with the hope that they can foster in secondary school youngsters a better inquiry approach to science. (CC)

The complete lesson enables the teacher to relate teaching strategies to levels of cognitive behavior, and stems from the belief that higher levels of cognitive behavior are developed only after a learner first acquires information and then puts that information to use. (Author)

Changing students' negative attitudes toward working story problems through a special weekly problem-solving activity is described. (DT)

Identified are misconceptions of behavior modification procedures according to which behavior modification is connected mistakenly with noncontingent reinforcement, partial change of a teacher's behavior, decelerations of inappropriate behaviors only, dependency producing technology, teacher dominated activity, a single type of classroom…