Since it is assumed that students' classroom behaviors reflect learning modalities and attitudes, this investigation was undertaken to assist teachers in identifying their students' individual differences. (Author/NCR)

Describes various projects that are part of a movement to return geography to a central place in the curriculum of America's schools. Focuses on the Geographic Education National Implementation Program (GENIP), sponsored by the National Geographic Society and other geography interest groups. (IW)

Illustrates sequential stages of composing and discusses appropriate teaching methods for each stage. Presents the steps: (1) an initial prewriting phase including a stimulating experience, development of awareness, and expressive creation, then (2) a second teacher-guided phase, including a cooling off period of analysis, revising, proofreading…

The student-teacher relationship in college instruction, when subjected to psychological analysis, may be more like a parent-child relationship. Through transactional teaching techniques an instructor may be more effective in improving student attitudes toward learning and study. (MSE)

A study of one university's faculty attitudes toward research examined the expressed reasons for doing research, perceived pressure to publish, sources of that pressure, satisfaction with the research experience, and number of publications. A large increase in publications was found, and the probable causes and implications of this finding are…

Discusses the need to teach undergraduate students the critical thinking processes necessary to formulating and researching a topic, rather than the technicalities of online catalogs. The development and design of an online catalog at Dickinson College, which forces students to make informed choices throughout the search process, is described.…

256 undergraduate students of Spanish responded to questionnaire concerning their: (1) experiences with Spanish and other languages in and out of the classroom; (2) comfort level in various aspects of using Spanish; and (3) motivation for taking Spanish courses. A significant relationship was drawn between student's outside experience and his or…

Describes an eight-week intensive course for incoming graduate students at the Asian Institute of Technology that helps students learn how to develop a piece of research in English. (LMO)

Article is based on the keynote address of the 1987 annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Suggests that George Polya left a legacy which has not only touched knowledge and abilities in mathematics and problem solving but also had significant effects on thoughts about teaching. (PK)

The article describes the triarchic theory of human intelligence, which is composed of three subtheories: componential, experiential, and contextual. Deficient cognitive strategies and inadequate knowledge in certain domains may result from the inability of the learning disabled to selectively encode, compare, and combine information, or from an…

Investigates the evaluation processes used in preschools, focusing on such issues as the extent to which (1) teachers use standards to support their evaluations; (2) whether standards teachers use are congruent with those that research and theory suggest would be used by preschool children; and (3) the extent to which teachers make causal…

Discussion of developments in information storage technology likely to have significant impact upon library utilization focuses on hardware (videodisc technology) and software developments (knowledge databases; computer networks; database management systems; interactive video, computer, and multimedia user interfaces). Three generic computer-based…

Investigates the effect of sex of the teacher on 925 secondary foreign language students. Indicates that the sex of foreign language teachers makes no difference to professional attitudes held or classroom practices in learning. Male and female students reject the idea that one teacher sex is preferable to the other. (TRS)

Ninth-grade Francophone students (N=95) living in a bicultural milieu responded to tests including scales of ethnolinguistic vitality, attitudes, motivation, self-confidence, and second language competence and usage. Analyses indicated that contact with Anglophones and self-confidence with English as a second language were related to motivation,…

Utilizing ethnographic data, three dimensions of the experience of Black females attending community colleges are explored: (1) motivation for attending; (2) perceived behavior of women and men within the institution; (3) academic outcomes. Explanations are offered for characteristics of Black female culture and community colleges' failure to…