The integrated approach to facilitating student achievement undertaken by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) is described. The goal of SEDL's Programmatic Theme on Facilitating Student Achievement is to contribute to the improvement of programs and activities in the Southwestern Region for teaching reading, writing, and…

Three issues of a literacy magazine contain articles written by and for individuals learning English writing skills. Most of the articles are personal narratives or accounts of significant personal experiences. These pieces are divided into sections according to skill level. One section consists of student writings with brief commentaries on style…

The purpose of this study was to provide data on teacher induction and to find ways in which a college/university may provide assistance to a school with teachers in their induction year. The study was conducted in three parochial schools that had requested a teacher induction program because of a large influx of new teachers. Descriptions are…

Recent research in classroom discipline tends to show that discipline is a by-product of effective instruction and classroom management. The five publications reviewed in this annotated bibliography explore aspects of the complex classroom environment that relate to student discipline. Walter Doyle's chapter on "Classroom Organization and…

A descriptive study of teacher perceptions of critical thinking skills and implementation of teaching behaviors that foster critical thinking was carried out. Participants were 30 teachers at an elementary school in a small, affluent community in the San Francisco Bay area. Data were gathered by means of a questionnaire administered to a consensus…

To examine why citizens today do not understand the U.S. Constitution and its provisions, a survey was conducted among 153 high school social studies, journalism, and English teachers to examine, among other things, how they taught about constitutional rights and how they rated their students' knowledge of the subject compared to students'…

Intended for forensic educators and debate teams, this document details how one university debate team, at the University of Iowa, makes use of computer resources on campus to facilitate storage and retrieval of information useful to debaters. The introduction notes the problem of storing and retrieving the amount of information required by debate…

The status of research on computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is explored beginning with a historical perspective of research on the language laboratory, followed by analyses of applied research on CALL. A theoretical base is provided to illustrate the need for more basic research on CALL that considers computer capabilities, learner…

The progress theorists have made toward developing models of second-language acquisition suggests that researchers need to pay more attention to classroom data. Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) can link theory to practice. A review of the connections between second language acquisition theory and CALL points out several factors,…

A literature review examined research on the acquisition of word identification and vocabulary understanding. One of its major themes was that children's understanding of words is best understood from the perspective of developing sensitivities to the English language. A second major theme is that acquisition of word identification skills and…

A study was undertaken to derive, demonstrate, and appraise a form for pragmatic studies of schoolteaching--a form defined as eclectic deliberation on a practical problem in schoolteaching. The exploration of the pragmatic form addressed the problem of beginning the year in the introductory biology courses of a high school. The analysis framed the…

Although much has been written about the potential applications for computers in the classroom, instructional computing has not so far affected classrooms and teaching practice in the manner or to the degree in which it was foretold. An analysis of the discourse surrounding educational computing reveals conceptions of teaching and prescriptions…

Now in its third year of implementation, the new secondary education teacher preparation program at Kansas State University (KSU) is designed to enhance the climate for educational reform. The program includes liberal arts studies, a defined course of study for each secondary teaching discipline, and three sequentially ordered semester blocks of…

This paper examines the claim that instruction specially adapted to the "visual learning styles" of Native American students results in improved learning. Substantial cross-cultural research suggests that Native American children have special strengths in spatial abilities and visual memory and that observational learning is an important…

According to the neo-Marxist critique, action researchers often neglect to take into account the historical, social, political, and cultural forces which silence students and protect the status quo in schools. One way to overcome this criticism is to link teacher research and emancipatory pedagogy, such as that advocated by Paulo Freire, in which…