Publication Date
| In 2026 | 2 |
| Since 2025 | 402 |
| Since 2022 (last 5 years) | 2059 |
| Since 2017 (last 10 years) | 4897 |
| Since 2007 (last 20 years) | 8944 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
| Practitioners | 3282 |
| Teachers | 2897 |
| Students | 241 |
| Researchers | 179 |
| Administrators | 160 |
| Parents | 76 |
| Policymakers | 44 |
| Counselors | 13 |
| Media Staff | 11 |
| Community | 4 |
| Support Staff | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Location
| China | 365 |
| Australia | 263 |
| Canada | 261 |
| Turkey | 201 |
| California | 199 |
| Indonesia | 184 |
| Japan | 156 |
| Taiwan | 144 |
| Iran | 143 |
| Texas | 137 |
| United Kingdom (England) | 134 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 24 |
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 43 |
| Does not meet standards | 21 |
Download full textMerlin, Shirley B. – 1993
This document contains the performance report, external evaluation, and curricula for the Career Enhancement Program, a workplace literacy partnership conducted by James Madison University and Massanutten Technical Center for five companies in Virginia. The performance report describes how the project delivered individualized workplace literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs
Smutney, Joan Franklin, Ed. – ICG Journal, 1991
This theme issue contains 17 articles which provide a diversity of views on the nature of creativity and how best to nurture it. Five initial articles are: "Creatively Gifted, disadvantaged Children: Their Desperate Need for Mentors" (E. Paul Torrance); "Creative Productivity: Understanding Its Sources and Nurture" (Donald J. Treffinger);…
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Childrens Literature, Cooperative Learning
Kuy, Kathy; Thomas, Bob – 1985
This guide assumes a basic familiarity with some principles, techniques, activities, materials, and lesson planning strategies for teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to adults. The approaches, techniques, ideas, resources, and information in the guide are designed to provide guidance for the teaching of literacy to adult students. After…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)
Himburg, Susan P. – 1989
The purpose of the Health Sciences Recruitment and Retention Program at Florida International University is to increase the numbers of qualified Hispanic and black students applying to the health sciences programs and to admit and retain them. Fields of study include dietetics, medical technology, and occupational and physical therapy. The…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Allied Health Occupations Education, Black Students, Developmental Studies Programs
Whitlock, Roger – 1987
Peter Elbow's concepts of "pointing,""summarizing,""telling," and "showing" can form an effective method for training students to give reader-based feedback to peer writing. In pointing, students jot down all the words and phrases they can remember from an oral reading of a draft. These lists stimulate…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Expository Writing, Group Discussion, Group Dynamics
Florida International Univ., Miami. Coll. of Education. – 1989
The guide contains a competency-based English-as-a-Second-Language/literacy curriculum, including coordinated lesson plans for three instructional levels (beginning, intermediate, pre-literacy) and an employability counseling component. The curriculum is arranged in an order reflecting the job search process. The competencies in the curriculum are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design, Difficulty Level
Parker, Walter C.; And Others – 1987
Twenty-four eleventh grade students attending a month-long, summer civic-leadership institute in a Pacific Northwest city participated in a study that examined their dialectical reasoning on civic issues. This reasoning was elicited through written scaffolding, with students guided explicitly to compose essays arguing for or against a position on…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Citizenship, Civics, Content Analysis
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Language Services Branch. – 1986
The English language and literature transition course is intended for high school students at the intermediate or advanced proficiency level in English as a second language intending to pursue further English language arts and literature courses. It builds on the communication skills introduced earlier in the English-as-a-second-language course…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Classroom Techniques, Course Content, Curriculum Guides
Cambourne, Brian; Turbill, Jan – 1987
Exploring questions about how the classroom environment affects young learners, this book describes how young children from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds have coped with the conditions surrounding them in process oriented writing classrooms. Chapter 1 describes the kinds of activities in which children engage in seemingly chaotic…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
Maryland Univ., College Park. Univ. Coll. – 1984
Eighty papers from a 1984 international conference on improving university teaching are presented. Topics include the following: predicting achievement and overcoming disadvantages for first-year students, the impact of technology on higher education, using student conceptions of learning and teaching, problems and solutions for teaching…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Administration, College Faculty, College Freshmen
Raphael, Taffy E.; And Others – 1986
The second phase of a 3-year project examining the effect of a process approach to writing instruction on students' expository reading and writing skills, a study determined the impact of three writing programs that emphasized different aspects of a process-oriented writing environment. Data were gathered from 159 fifth and sixth grade students…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Comprehension
Handscombe, Jean, Ed.; And Others – 1983
The conference papers presented in this volume explore various aspects of a central question: how will computers be used in language teaching or, more broadly, who will be in control? The volume is divided into three sections: Critical Interactions, Promising Approaches, and Political Influences. Papers included within each of these categories are…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Bilingual Education, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 38 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) how writing centers succeed and fail; (2) the effects of scoring method, topic, and mode on grade 12 students' writing scores; (3) analysis of the peer…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Annotated Bibliographies, Assignments, Computer Assisted Instruction
Tennessee State Dept. of Education, Nashville. – 1987
As part of the language arts curriculum framework developed in accordance with "Rules, Regulations, and Minimum Standards" of the Tennessee State Board of Education, this standard English curriculum guide contains the goals, concepts, and terminal objectives for grade 10 English courses. Following an introduction, a description of the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Objectives, Decoding (Reading), English Curriculum
Tennessee State Dept. of Education, Nashville. – 1987
As part of the language arts curriculum framework developed in accordance with "Rules, Regulations, and Minimum Standards" of the Tennessee State Board of Education, this standard English curriculum guide contains the goals, concepts, and terminal objectives for grade 11 English courses. Following an introduction, a description of the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Objectives, Decoding (Reading), English Curriculum
