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Learn, Cheryl Demerath – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1994
A discussion of distance education in nursing and pharmacy fields looks at the history of distance education; issues in program design (resources, politics, student populations, policy); planning (finances, curriculum, technology, resources, faculty); implementation; evaluation; and outcomes (graduates, career mobility, institutional image).…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), College Outcomes Assessment, Distance Education
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Knight, Eileen Quinn; Becker, Joe – Teaching Education, 1994
Describes a course in which female preservice educators were encouraged to participate socially and teach elementary mathematics in such a way as to make it personally meaningful. The paper discusses Paulo Freire's views on student oppression and empowerment, noting how they relate to these students' experiences as recorded through observation and…
Descriptors: College Students, Consciousness Raising, Education Courses, Elementary Education
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Demastes, Sherry; Wandersee, James H. – Bioscience, 1992
Examines the proposed definition of biological literacy as the understanding of a small number of pervasive biological principles appropriate to making informed personal and societal decisions. Utilizes the content of a major daily newspaper to adjust biology instruction to focus on this notion of biological literacy. Discusses benefits and…
Descriptors: Biology, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation
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Hegarty-Hazel, Elizabeth; Prosser, Michael – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Reports on the relationship between students' propositional knowledge, measured by concept mapping tasks, and their study strategies, measured by self-report questionnaires, as it relates to the concept of photosynthesis as presented in a first-year biology course. Results indicate that involved, purposeful study strategies, prompted by relevant…
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Concept Mapping, Context Effect
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Hale, Janice E. – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 1992
Maintains that educators need to dignify the language and cognitive experiences of African-American children. Asserts that African-American culture emphasizes charismatic and stylistic uses of language. Teachers must understand African-American cultural styles if they are to create cultural continuity for African-American children who attend…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Early Childhood Education
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Wager, Walter – Education and Urban Society, 1992
Considers educational technology's role in designing effective instruction. Instructional design that supports systematic determination of instructional goals and methods for accomplishing those goals and for assessing success requires consideration of four variables associated with instruction: (1) learner characteristics; (2) learning task; (3)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement
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Coldevin, Gary; And Others – Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 1993
Describes a study that examined the extent to which different levels of instructional control and varied learner characteristics affected performance and time on task, using interactive video in a college biochemistry course. Prior knowledge and learner internality/externality are discussed, and interaction between learner ability and…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Biochemistry, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Piette, Mary I.; Smith, Nathan M., Jr. – Reference Services Review, 1991
Describes Project FORE (Focus on Research and Evaluation), a hypermedia program developed at Utah State University for library use instruction. Topics discussed include guidelines for designing instructional courseware, lesson objectives, recall of prior learning, feedback, enhancing retention and transfer of learning, visual design, learner…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Behavioral Objectives, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development
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Carswell, Linda; Thomas, Pete; Petre, Marian; Price, Blaine; Richards, Mike – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2000
Compares the experiences of a group of Internet students to those of conventional distance learning students in the same Computer Science course at the Open University (United Kingdom). Discusses learning styles; background questionnaires that included computer use, email experience, programming, education, and attitudes; learning outcomes;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
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He, Peter Wei; Jacobson, Trudi E. – Internet Reference Services Quarterly, 1996
Library staff at State University of New York at Albany surveyed 96 patrons in a 2-month period regarding their Internet usage. Gender, college status, and prior experience were sources of differences in searching and browsing behavior and in attitudes toward Internet usefulness. Libraries should actively create new Internet access points and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Style, Higher Education
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Boucheix, Jean-Michel; Guignard, Helene – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2005
We study the comprehension of a multimedia technical document about gear functioning by young pupils. The research is focused on the effect of three factors on the construction of a mental model: illustration format (animated versus static) signaling cues (presence versus absence) learner-control of information delivery (three rhythms of…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Students, Research Methodology, Memory
Evans, Norman – 1994
This book overviews experiential learning in the various contexts in which it has developed over the last decade. Experiential learning involves the knowledge and skills acquired through life and work experience and study, which are not formally attested through any educational or professional certification. The first chapter defines the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Wolfson, Gloria Krupnick – 1996
This project investigated the acceptance of innovation and change as it related to a specific education change of prior learning assessment (PLA) at the University College of the Fraser Valley (UCFV) in British Columbia, Canada. The study explored the barriers that existed against students who wanted to have experiential and workplace learning…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Change Strategies, College Credits, Education Work Relationship
Kang, Hee-Won; Gillotte, Helen – 1993
This paper presents several methods of reading instruction that teachers can use with young readers, particularly learners of English as a Second Language (ESL), to help them cope with potential negative effects of background knowledge. Insufficient or inaccurate background knowledge may cause readers to make inferences or interpretations that are…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Individual Characteristics
Resnick, Lauren B.; And Others – 1991
Early results are reported for an effort to use a reasoning-based mathematics program in the primary classroom. In the preschool years, children develop knowledge about quantities of material, referred to as protoquantitative reasoning. Integrating counting with the protoquantitative schemas seems to occur as early as 4 years of age. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classroom Techniques, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary School Mathematics
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