The Socratic method uses skillfully arranged and worded questions that, in sequence, lead the answerer toward some revelation. So that students may be exposed to their own and each other's views on legally and ethically acceptable journalistic responses to complex coverage situations, this document describes how the Socratic method may be used in…

Potentially effective and trainable learning strategies were identified by analysis of a specially developed learning strategy inventory and a survey of educational and psychological review literature. Four aspects of the learning process suggested the usefulness of special training: identification of important or unfamiliar material, applications…

This book provides history teachers with an understanding of the nature of historical inquiry and suggests approaches to the teaching of history. The discipline is described as an art and a science, narrative and analytical, sometimes bordering on myth. Consideration of historical evidence, ranging from concrete facts to oral sources, is seen to…

The purpose of this study was to state several desired teacher behaviors relative to the development of cognitive skills in young children and to determine the extent to which those behaviors could be achieved. The study involved 16 students in a graduate course, all of whom were currently or had been teachers. Each graduate student recorded a…

Ways that reading evaluation programs can bring reading success to individual students are presented. Each chapter is written by an authority on one of the following topics: what evaluation is, who does it, and when it should be done; reading program goals as the basis for evaluation; informal techniques for assessing prereading behavior; use of…

Presented are four modules (from Appendix A), developed for a study at Central Michigan University, focusing on competency-based materials in science methods education for elementary school teachers. The Teaching Tactics Module is an attempt to combine process teaching skills and inquiry. Four teaching tactics are emphasized: initiating, focusing,…

This study was designed to investigate the nonverbal teacher behavior of wait-time. Wait-time is the silence in a conversation following a teacher or student utterance. The primary purpose of the investigation was to document some of the behavioral and cognitive effects of wait-time and to delineate the interrelationships between the various forms…

This document is a compilation of abstracts of 28 research papers presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The major portion of the reports concerned methods of instruction; nine were related to college mathematics, ten on secondary school mathematics, and two at the elementary school mathematics…

A program called Experiment Writer (EW) was designed to enable students to use the computer to sample a range of experimentation situations. EW was used by 20 students in an Advanced Experimental Psychology course; hardware consisted of a PDP-10 computer, and a PDP-15 computer with 12K of core memory and two time-shared stations. Experimental…

A study was conducted to characterize the problem-solving processes of individuals with high scholastic aptitudes and individuals with low scholastic aptitudes. From a group of 532 Chicago area high school juniors, a group who scored high on the Differential Aptitude Test and a group that scored low were selected. They were given nine problems to…

The purpose of this study was to examine the classroom questions of teachers of science, English and social studies and to determine whether the frequency and types of questions were related to changes in pupil critical thinking. The author hypothesized science teachers would ask more questions and higher level questions than teachers of English…

The purposes of this study were to replicate the effects of question placement, either before or after, on the acquisition of critical and incidental material with grade school subjects and to determine the effects of paragraph length on learning with children. Two variables, question placement (BA) and pacing (PL), were combined in a 2 x 4…

This paper discusses the implications of two studies on the questioning behavior of preservice secondary school science teachers. The first study indicated that preservice teachers could benefit from participation in an instructional procedure designed to enable them to develop skill in several questioning strategies. The second study was designed…

The membership of the Undergraduate Studies Committee of the American Council of Industrial Arts Teacher Educators and the Research Committee of the Industrial Arts Division of the American Vocational Association have formulated jointly this national study in order to obtain accurate data as a basis for program innovations. Information was…

The study reported here builds on, and overcomes certain difficulties in, a previous study by Hunkins. The major focus of the research was to determine the relative effects on learning of two teaching techniques: one using 70% knowledge-level questions and 30% higher-level questions (Treatment A); the other using the reverse ratio (Treatment B).…