A study with 21 internal medicine residents at 1 teaching hospital found that the students perceived an even balance between the service and education functions of their night-call activities. No significant difference was found between first-year and senior (second-, third-, and fourth-year) residents. (Author/MSE)

Two recent reports, the Association of American Colleges'"The Challenge of Connecting Learning" and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's "Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate," urge higher education to reshape the college curriculum and refocus its attention on what constitutes faculty…

Discusses changes in models of education and teaching that affect the roles of educational technologists. A review of schooling models of the past, present, and future emphasizes a shift from traditional teacher and student roles to more democratic, individualized instruction; and McBeath's transformational model for change is considered. (15…

Discusses the use of computer-mediated communications for student learning and for teacher collaborations. The use of local area networks and electronic bulletin boards is described, new networks that will serve the needs of students and teachers are discussed, and theoretical and practical approaches to research and analysis are considered. (20…

Reports on the value of Project Work in INSET as practiced on 10-week courses at the Institute for English Language Education, Lancaster University. The two roles in which the student is addressed during the project (participant as writer or participant as researcher) are questioned. (six references) (GLR)

Summarizes the Big6 Skills information problem-solving approach: (1) Task Definition; (2) Information Seeking Strategies; (3) Location and Access; (4) Use of Information; (5) Synthesis; and (6) Evaluation. Discusses parent and student roles in information problem solving, the value of assignments, and technology and the Big Six. (PEN)

Discusses staff development in the area of technology integration in secondary schools. Highlights include how the new technology can be useful; staff motivation; training considerations, including staff needs; and student participation in producing videos on various educational technologies for staff to watch. (LRW)

Examined the complex interactions among student engagement, scientific-thinking practices, and student role taking and social interaction in the context of school-based science lessons. Found that students in an intellectual-roles plus audience-roles condition were more active in initiating engagement episodes than those in intellectual roles only…

Offers five suggestions to college presidents for enhancing the college-community relationship: attending most community or neighborhood meetings to which invited; having the public affairs staff build a mailing list of community representatives; being prepared to do special favors; building an institutional tradition of community service; and…

Discusses issues related to the integration of technology into today's classrooms, focusing on issues for traditional and constructivist pedagogies: changing classroom environments; computers as part of the classroom and curriculum; dynamic student products involving technology; expanding teaching and learning environments; constructivist…

Asserts that arts programs must be strong in themselves in order to survive; arts programs thrive through the collaboration of teachers, administrators, parents, students, and the community. Gives a multitude of steps, from program quality to informing the community, as a way for arts educators and advocates to take a stand. (CMK)

Explores how children's ideas in science affect elementary science instruction by investigating whether and how three primary teachers recognize and react to student ideas. Finds that the experienced teacher with the highest level of content knowledge had the largest repertoire for eliciting and addressing student ideas, and the intern teacher's…

Describes a study that examined teacher's and parents' beliefs across several dimensions of the classroom learning environment, including assessment, knowledge, student role, and pedagogy. Discusses results that indicated parents held more traditional views than teachers, and considers implications for instructional designers, curriculum…

ITELS is an intelligent system for foreign language terminology learning aimed at enhancing learners' conceptual knowledge as well as in understanding specific terminology. Three agents--each of them characterized by specific roles with respect to the system functioning--take part in the instructional process supported by ITELS: the human teacher,…

Revisions a set of data from a longitudinal study of children who were prenatally exposed to crack/cocaine. Shows that the foster mother most often positioned herself as a leader or expert, the child positioned himself as a successful student, and the researcher was positioned by these two as a recipient of information. (RS)