This study addresses preservice teachers' perceptions toward online experiences, specifically, their perceptions about utilizing an online science methods curriculum versus a traditional methods curriculum. Thirty-eight senior level preservice teachers at a midwestern U.S. university completed surveys about their experiences during their methods…

This article explores the effects of the Time To Know program, a comprehensive technology-rich learning environment, on low socio-economic status (SES) students' learning achievements in Mathematics, Hebrew, and English as a Foreign Language (EFL)in Israel. The study is based on the assumption that one of the possible solutions for bridging the…

This study extrapolated from Liberman's (2004) calibration model and Kimball and Metcalfe's (2003) conceptualization in order to evaluate students' judgment of learning (JOL) of material presented in either an expository or a constructivist format. The purpose of this study was to determine if students have differing degrees of JOL based on the…

Developments in the laboratory-based teaching of physics and astronomy are resulting from the collaboration between conventional and distance teaching universities. The collaboration, piCETL, is one of the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning established as a result of a broad initiative by the Higher Education Funding Council for…

The common teaching goal of two different phantom head courses was to enable the students to provide an all-ceramic restoration by the means of computer technology. The aim of this study was to compare these two courses with regard to the different educational methods using identical computer software. Undergraduate dental students from a single…

Traditional methods of teaching spelling emphasized that pupils might write each new spelling word correctly and repeatedly from a weekly list in the spelling textbook. Some weaknesses in this approach are that rote learning is being stressed without emphasizing application of what has been learned, and that there is nothing which relates the…

Problems of environment studied in an interdisciplinary approach forms essence of academic plan of University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. The UWGB plan requires a return to the common ground of fundamental principles as precondition to a realistic study of environmental problems. (Author/EK)

A POST-TEST WAS USED TO COMPARE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO METHODS OF TEACHING THE USE OF "WEBSTER'S SEVENTH NEW COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY." STUDENTS IN ONE SECTION OF A READING AND VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT COURSE WERE GIVEN A PROGRAMED LEARNING SEQUENCE FOR STUDYING DICTIONARY USAGE AND WERE TOLD THAT THEY WOULD BE TESTED PERIODICALLY ON THE…

The problem of this study was to determine if a significant difference existed between the mean achievement scores, on the Gates Primary Reading Tests, of two equated matched pairs of culturally deprived first grade children after the experimental group had used a programed approach to reading instruction and the control group had used…

Programed instruction, as compared with conventional classroom teaching, is more effective for the students who belong to a lower social economic status (SES) than for other students. This hypothesis was tested and supported by a study conducted in a suburban school of Honolulu. One hundred-five students in grade 9, registered for a biology…

The rationale for, and use and effect of, audiotutorial minicourses in teaching basic biology are discussed. Statistical analyses of data from an evaluation questionnaire that was given the students at Hagerstown (Maryland) Junior College is presented. (SGM)

This article discusses the "back to basics" movement and points out both its advantages and disadvantages. (CD)

Breuning answers the criticisms expressed by Brophy (TM 503 459) in his commentary on Breuning's study of precision teaching (TM 503 458). The author repeats his conclusion that precision teaching was more effective than traditional teaching. (GDC)

Evaluates Neville Bennett's study of "Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress" which is being used to support a return to formal methods of instruction. (DD)