The role of self-advocacy in educational decision making is explored. A student's involvement in the individualized education program (IEP) development is considered. (CL)

Discussion of educational restructuring focuses on four areas of possible change, considers implications for teachers and teacher training, and examines why change efforts may fail. Topics include the teacher's role, the student's role, school structures and processes, and technology use. Contains 70 references. (LRW)

Explores student interaction with the educational system and shows why large numbers of students have incentives to undercut the intent of educational reforms. Describes the kind of educational structures and policies that create pathways to competent adulthood and have a chance of bringing about the reformers' goal of educational excellence. (SLD)

Adult learners juggle multiple roles while attending institutions of higher education. Adult students' roles and the implications for adults' success in college are discussed in this chapter. (Contains 13 references.) (Author)

Contends that without the reminders and reassurances in the masthead of a student publication, a staff opens itself to all kinds of difficulties. Explains that the following should be part of a masthead: a statement establishing the paper as a "public forum"; a statement distinguishing district employees from student editors; a letters policy; a…

Finds that students ask more interpretive predictive questions than literal or applied predictive questions. Finds that teachers ask more literal prequestions than interpretive or applied prequestions about the same expository selection. (RS)

Discusses specific points from and provides a critical review of "Lessons from the Learner," an ideas resource book for learning, coming from the learner, that is meant to help teachers empower students to produce and work with their own material/preparation. (GLR)

Expands the description of the teaching-learning process to a teaching-studying-learning process that emphasizes the active role of the student. Suggests that interaction is the central concept in this process and considers direct and indirect interaction. (SLD)

Proposes the metaphor of professional/client rather than student-as-customer to characterize the relationship between professors and students. Uses examples of fitness trainer, management consultant, accounting service, and mountain guide to illustrate faculty and student roles. (SK)

Adult health/medical-surgical nurses (n=54) and mental health/psychiatric nurses (n=54) were surveyed about contributions of nursing students in clinical placements. Students provided clinical staff with opportunities for mentoring, reciprocal learning, and professional development and made direct contributions to patient care. (SK)

Considers how visual metadiscourse provides design criteria for authors when considering the needs and expectations of readers. Notes the author's discussions of textual metadiscourse in technical writing classes since 1995. Notes an improvement in the cohesion and considerateness of student writing after rethinking their role as writers and the…

Details a student-led conferencing model developed by one middle school faculty that engages students as active participants in facilitating their conferences with parents and teachers. Considers conference goals, preparation, and evaluation. (JPB)

Describes research that was conducted to discover principles for the design of educational tasks that provoke collaborative argumentation, concentrating on the relationship between question asking and argumentation. Discusses results from experiments with three different collaborative learning tasks involving university students and examines the…

Explores, using the framework of Negotiated Order Theory, critical interactions between faculty and students when students are experiencing difficulties in managing school and family/work responsibilities. Demonstrates that childcare concerns most often trigger students to initiate negotiations with faculty members. Discusses limitations and…

Relates the stages a new intern goes through to become an "insider." Relates the socialization of newcomers to writing and editing internships. Suggests ways in which the socialization of interns can be improved through intervention from academic advisors and an active role on the part of the interns themselves. (SC)