There has been little research into interventions to increase participation in donating items to food-bank bins. In New Zealand, there has been an increased demand from food banks (Stewart, 2002). This study demonstrated that point-of-sale prompts can be an effective method of increasing donations to a supermarket food-bank bin. (Contains 1…

This article describes how one substitute teacher traveling the United States as a meet intern with USA Track and Field, a classroom teacher with an eager group of fifth graders, one stuffed Punxsy Phil groundhog, the Pennsylvania Academic Standards and a digital camera combined to form a collaborative classroom travel project entitled,…

This research investigates the usefulness of two major types of interactional feedback (elicitation and reformulation) in dyadic interaction. The focus is on the different ways in which each feedback type is provided and their relationship with learner repair. The participants were 42 adult intermediate English as a second language learners and…

This study examines children's social responses to gender cues in synthesized speech in a computer-based instruction setting. Eighty 5th-grade elementary school children were randomly assigned to one of the conditions in a full-factorial 2 (participant gender) x 2 (voice gender) x 2 (content gender) experiment. Results show that children apply…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an animated agent that provides instructional scaffolding strategies via a story mnemonic or cuing question with feedback versus instructional scaffolding strategies alone on student achievement of different educational objectives in multimedia learning. Specifically, the study investigated…

Regulating closed-captioned videotape prompt rates as a technological approach to improve reading comprehension/retention skills in "at risk" elementary school students is addressed. It is a within factor experimental design which examines retention of learning from closed-caption videotape with regulated prompt rates. Two groups…

Children, ages 5 to 8 years (n=71), were required to listen and detect errors out of a partly wrong sequence of tape-recorded French number words from 1 to 100. Children (from several schools near Montpellier, France) were from preschool, grade 1, and grade 2. Results show that wrong syntactic rules were better detected than omissions, whereas…

This paper provides a rationale for the selection of illustrations and visual aids for the classroom. The theories that describe the processing of visuals are dual coding theory and cue summation theory. Concept attainment theory offers a basis for selecting which cues are relevant for any learning task which includes a component of identification…

This book provides information about reading and reading instruction from kindergarten through the elementary grades that is specific enough to be helpful to anyone who is, or will be, teaching reading. Chapters in the book are: (1) The Reading Process; (2) The Reading Teacher; (3) Reading: Silent or Oral?; (4) Easing Young Children into Literacy;…

The encoding and decoding of verbal and nonverbal cues is basic to the process of social interaction. A method of teaching about verbal and nonverbal communication--the Interpersonal Perception Task (IPT)--consists of a videotape divided into 30 brief scenes. After each scene viewers answer an interpretive question by decoding the verbal and…

Memory for everyday conversational speech may be influenced by the nonverbally communicated emotion of the speaker. In order to investigate this premise, three videotaped scenes with bipolar emotional perspectives (joy/fear about going away to college, fear/anger about having been robbed, and disgust/interest regarding a friend's infidelity) were…

Forty undergraduate judges watched videotaped interactions of couples and rated their marital satisfaction based on certain behavioral cues. Results indicate: untrained judges were able to discriminate marital satisfaction/distress with significant validity; judges' ratings were correlated with couples' aversive behavior; and the actuarial…

Assessed organizational strategies for recall by comparing lists designed for recall by children in kindergarten, third and sixth grade with ordinary free associations, and by observing whether the lists served as units of organization in a subsequent free recall task. (Author/SDH)

An investigation of size accuracy and spatial accuracy of depth perception in a total of 227 African, Chinese and European children between 4 and 10 years of age. The pattern of results varied little between cultures. (Author/SDH)