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Achilles, C. M.; And Others – 1990
A process model for the restructuring of educational administration preparation programs is described, with a focus on program content, delivery, and context. Recommendations are made for utilization of a problem-solving, andragogical approach and for structured administrator preparation programs based on the integration of theory and practice.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Education, Andragogy, Cognitive Development
Gross, Janet Finck – 1990
One teacher's experiences in incorporating non-hierarchic learning assumptions and values in the second language classroom, especially through the use of dialogue journals, are reported. In the first part, observations of accuracy-based classroom language teaching are contrasted with the meaning-based acquisition model. Six salient characteristics…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Dialog Journals, Educational Strategies
Williams, James D.; Snipper, Grace Capizzi – 1990
The mechanisms and issues in literacy are identified and analyzed as they relate to bilingualism. A wide range of current theory and research is synthesized, and concrete suggestions are made concerning the development of literacy skills in bilingual classrooms. The book is divided into nine chapters. The first chapter discusses varying…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Intelligence
Download full textBelanger, Joe – 1987
Although the relationship between reading and writing proficiency has interested scholars for two centuries, the exact nature of this relationship has resisted discovery. The persistance of statistically significant correlations across a broad range of subjects, measures, and experimental settings leaves no doubt that a moderate link between…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Learning Theories
Gillespie, Junetta B., Ed. – Studies in Language Learning, 1985
The extent to which video has come of age with respect to language learning is the focus of this special issue, which provides information on sources of materials and offers practical ideas for the effective and creative use of those materials in second language instruction. Articles include: "Video and Language Learning: A Medium Comes of Age"…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Techniques, Communications Satellites
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 25 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the integrated short story collection as a genre; (2) lyric definition; (3) trope density in Newbery Award winning books and selected Children's Choices from…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliotherapy, Childrens Literature
Whaples, Gene C.; Rivera, William M. – 1983
These proceedings contain 47 papers presented at a conference focusing on nonformal adult education. Papers deal with 12 adult/continuing education content areas. These content areas and representative paper focuses are adult development (the role of gerontology programs in life transitions, the impact of development on adult learning), aging…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Aging (Individuals)
Anderson, Philip M. – 1982
The middle school and junior high school years are extremely important ones in the language, cognitive, and personal development of students. During this time, students should begin using longer sentences with more sophisticated embeddings and showing greater awareness of audience and organization in writing, speaking, listening, and reading. At…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English Instruction, Junior High Schools, Language Acquisition
Crawford, John – 1975
The effects of response mode and complexity level of instructional materials, and the effects of student ability (as indicated by grade point average) on learning performance were studied. Four programmed instructional units on an unfamiliar subject, physiological psychology, were presented to 159 college students. Three of the units required the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, College Students, Difficulty Level
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1982
Selected college and university programs established to assist adults in continuing their education, earning their degrees, and learning about whatever interests them are described, and an essay on lifelong learning is presented. In "Curriculum Development for Lifelong Learning," Charles S. Claxton describes how life cycle research,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Andragogy
Teubner-Rhodes, Louise A. – 1977
This study deals with word retrieval problems of aphasic patients. This word-finding difficulty is a common characteristic of aphasics and many methods have been used by aphasia clinicians to attempt to remediate word retrieval skills. Cueing, one of the methods used, presumably facilitates word-finding by supplying additional information to the…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Cues
Brown, William H., Ed. – 1978
The document comprises two issues of a journal devoted to learning and adolescence. Each issue contains articles which were contributed by participants in a conference on learning and adolescence held at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, in 1977. Articles in the Spring issue deal with formation of adolescents' values, observations of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Groups, Cognitive Development, Educational Objectives
Bloom, Lois – 1976
This paper proposes a broad outline of a variable model of language development and explores several particulars of such a model in the language behavior of four two-year-old children. The process by which information about language is progressively transformed and integrated rather than merely being added together can be seen in the shifting…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedLomon, Earle L.; And Others – School Science and Mathematics, 1977
The two articles dealing with problem solving and technology in this publication should be useful to those developing the kinds of materials, experiences, and thinking that elementary school industrial arts offers children. The first article accepts problem solving as an educational goal and reports a timely and universally acceptable approach.…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Development
GROTELUESCHEN, ARDEN – 1967
AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO ASSESS THE EFFECTS ON ADULT LEARNING OF DIFFERENTIALLY STRUCTURED INTRODUCTORY COGNITIVE LEARNING TASKS AND MATERIALS, AND THE INTERACTION OF INTELLIGENCE WITH THE EXPERIMENTALLY MANIPULATED MATERIAL AND TASK CATEGORIES. ABOUT 96 ADULTS WHO WERE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE CONCEPT OF NUMBER BASES WERE CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO A 4X3X4…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence, Learning Theories
