Discusses the problems involved in teaching reading skills to remedial readers, then offers a model for skill instruction. Provides a lesson plan that uses the model for phonics instruction. (FL)

Responding to McQueen (this issue), Epstein notes that the Cognitive Levels Matching project in Shoreham, New York, is entirely independent of his brain studies, which merely provide corroborating physiological evidence for a theory grounded in educational psychology. (TE)

Eight educational activities based on social learning and social support theory were used as part of a comprehensive cardiovascular risk reduction program for families with children in the elementary grades. Activities focused on changing behavior with regard to diet and exercise. (Author/PP)

Concludes that individuals can read unfamiliar but relatively easy material at high rates with high accuracy of comprehension, but they do not provide strong support for rauding theory. (FL)

Against the background of the variety of language teaching methods currently in use, the actual daily classroom situation and the communication rituals it adopts are examined. Teachers are encouraged to draw on and expand classroom communication practices. (MSE)

Describes how individually paced instruction (IPI) works, the major assumptions of IPI and difficulties encountered with them, and problems with measuring only behavioral objectives. Concludes that IPI is useful for courses that have fixed knowledge content. (ND)

A program of inquiry training is evaluated as helpful in enabling teachers to develop skills needed to implement knowledge of subject matter, learning processes, and teaching methods in the classroom. (GW)

The evidence from studies of component selection in paired-associate learning is reviewed and then considered in relation to Martin's (1968) hypothesis of encoding variability and Rudy's (1974) model of variations in the associative process. Component-selection tasks are also compared to verbal concept-formation tasks. (Editor)

Discussion about teaching to psychology students the Watson and Rayner study in 1920 on fear of rats. (ND)

Discusses the goals, the theoretical base, and the implementation of the Personalized System of Instruction in speech communication courses. (MH)

This study aims to investigate Instant Messaging from the new rhetorical genre perspective. Considering IM as a primary genre (Bakhtin, 1986) I intend to examine its social motive and social and textual features. Also, using Vygotsky's (1978, 1986) concept of situated learning, I will explain how IM users learn the genre to communicate through it.…

The number of children and adolescents accessing the Internet as well as the amount of time online are steadily increasing. The most common online activities include playing video games, navigating web sites, and communicating via chat rooms, email, and instant messaging. A theoretical framework for understanding the effects of Internet use on…

The main purpose of this article is to introduce a critical curriculum design approach for bringing curriculum change for Blended Learning in higher education. Furthermore, the strategies, principles and challenges of this approach are also presented. This paper provides a perspective on such serious concerns as whether curriculum change should…

This paper explores one student's attempt to apprehend an abstract mathematical structure (similar to Z[99]). We discuss Karmiloff-Smith's theory of representational redescription as a model for the development of structural understanding and contrast this with existing process-object theories. We use two cycles in Molly's movement from an action…

In this report we present the methodology used in a study that investigated the tacit-explicit dynamic in learning processes. We have analyzed an episode related to a discussion about the difference between plane figures and spatial figures promoted by the teacher in her mathematics classroom (the students are aged 11 to 12). The data analysis was…