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An, Heejung – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2007
Heejung An describes the pedagogical framework underpinning the design of an interactive Web-based HTML coding tutorial geared for novice learners attending a technical college. The author discusses the ways in which the tutorial was designed to support the learners' initial stages of cognitive skill acquisition. Of primary interest are the three…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Technical Institutes, Formative Evaluation, Exhibits
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O'Malley, Colleen J.; Blankemeyer, Maureen; Walker, Kathleen K.; Dellmann-Jenkins, Mary – Journal of Family Issues, 2007
There is increased interest by parents in communicating with their children about political violence. However, limited attention in the scholarly literature has focused on parent-child communication about war and terrorism. In response, the purpose of this study is to assess, within their respective ecological contexts, American and Northern Irish…
Descriptors: Parents as Teachers, Parent Child Relationship, War, Terrorism
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Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth – Journal of Career Development, 2007
Through study of 32 students' narratives about coping with external threats to their career goals (e.g., denial of admission to the major of their choice), this study examines the following issues: (a) the coping mechanisms student use when faced with threats that loom large, (b) the relation between coping methods employed and whether the goal is…
Descriptors: Coping, Career Development, Personal Narratives, Theory Practice Relationship
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Depaepe, Fien; De Corte, Erik; Verschaffel, Lieven – International Journal of Educational Research, 2007
Changing perspectives on mathematics teaching and learning resulted in a new generation of mathematics textbooks, stressing among others the importance of mathematical reasoning and problem-solving skills and their application to real-life situations. The article reports a study that investigates to what extent the reform-based ideas underlying…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Textbooks, Problem Solving, Norms
Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers, 2006
A child with a disability is expected to take tests along with his or her non-disabled classmates. The child may receive accommodations or modifications, if needed. Some children may take alternate assessments. Some may take tests that measure progress in alternate standards. Your child must recall facts quickly and correctly to do well on tests.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Long Term Memory, Mnemonics, Teaching Methods
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Longo, Matthew R.; Bertenthal, Bennett I. – Infancy, 2006
Do 9-month-old infants motorically simulate actions they perceive others perform? Two experiments tested whether action observation, like overt reaching, is sufficient to elicit the Piagetian A-not-B error. Infants recovered a toy hidden at location A or observed an experimenter recover the toy. After the toy was hidden at location B, infants in…
Descriptors: Observation, Error Patterns, Infants, Toys
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Kannass, Kathleen N.; Oakes, Lisa M.; Shaddy, D. Jill – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2006
We longitudinally investigated the development of endogenous control of attention in 2 types of tasks that involve competition for attentional focus at 7, 9, and 31 months of age. At all 3 sessions, children participated in a multiple object free play task and a distractibility task. The results revealed both developmental differences and…
Descriptors: Play, Attention Control, Infants, Longitudinal Studies
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Ou, Sheue-jen – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
In many nations educators are fighting to build a curriculum that reflects the knowledge and beliefs of all peoples rather than a dominant political power group. This perspective is particularly significant when examining school discourse in Taiwan, a country with a long-standing multicultural population and a diverse history of alien occupations.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Identification (Psychology)
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Vlach, Haley A.; Carver, Sharon M. – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2008
Education programs have fostered advanced levels of graphic representation ability in young children but have not detailed the specific mechanisms responsible for the accelerated growth. Research suggests that between 6 and 8 years of age children begin to observe more carefully before drawing and that observation prompts aid children's…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Observation, Scores, Early Childhood Education
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King, Susan E. – Physical Educator, 2008
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of peer-generated feedback versus visual feedback in inspiring preservice physical education teachers to produce reflections that are more critical than technical. The participants were junior-, senior-, and graduate-level health and physical education majors enrolled in an instructional…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Education Majors, Preservice Teachers, Physical Education
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Roehrig, Alysia D.; Duggar, Staci Walton; Moats, Louisa; Glover, Marsha; Mincey, Brian – Remedial and Special Education, 2008
The phenomenon of using progress monitoring data to inform literacy instruction was explored in the context of four schools during their 2nd year of Reading First implementation. Open-ended interviews and surveys from 10 teachers, purposefully selected for maximum variation in effectiveness and skills and resistance to using data to inform…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Classroom Techniques, Literacy, Teachers
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van de Sande, Carla; Leinhardt, Gaea – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2007
Free, open, online homework help sites appear to be extremely popular and exist for many school subjects. Students can anonymously post problems at their convenience and receive responses from forum members. This mode of tutoring may be especially critical for school subjects such as calculus that are intrinsically challenging and have high…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Error Correction, Help Seeking, Calculus
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Flynn, Naomi – Literacy, 2007
This article explores the fine detail of practice by three teachers, all recognised as effective teachers of literacy. The three were observed during nine literacy lessons (three lessons each), working with Year 2 classes (6/7-year-olds) in successful inner-city primary schools in the south of England. Data collection took place in 2003, just as…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Literacy Education
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Erchul, William P.; DuPaul, George J.; Grissom, Priscilla F.; Junod, Rosemary E. Vile; Jitendra, Asha K.; Mannella, Mark C.; Tresco, Katy E.; Flammer-Rivera, Lizette M.; Volpe, Robert J. – School Psychology Review, 2007
Consultation has been shown to be an effective means to deliver school-based psychological services. The purpose of this study was to link patterns of consultant and teacher verbal interactions to consultation outcomes. Relational communication (Rogers & Escudero, 2004) was the research perspective taken, and the source of the consultation…
Descriptors: Psychological Services, Elementary School Students, Interpersonal Communication, Intervention
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Finn, Jerry; Dillon, Caroline – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2007
This paper describes methods for teaching content analysis as part of the Research sequence in social work education. Teaching content analysis is used to develop research skills as well as to promote students' knowledge and critical thinking and about new information technology resources that are being increasingly used by the general public. The…
Descriptors: Social Work, Teaching Methods, Research Methodology, Methods Courses
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