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Morrill, Paul H.; Spees, Emil R. – 1982
Teaching in higher education is examined in terms of the normal duties and responsibilities of the college instructor, some of the newer instructional patterns and innovations, educational technology, and skills needed to guide the learning process. Chapters include: the context of higher education; roles in the academic profession; basic…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, College Instruction
Althen, Gary, Ed.; And Others – 1981
Aspects of intercultural educational activity, research on learning, and implications for educational interchange, and case studies of the application of ideas from the intercultural communication field to work in international educational interchange are addressed in nine papers. Contents include: "Dynamics of Cross-cultural Adjustment: from…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Students, Communication Skills, Cross Cultural Training
Caponigri, Rocco S.; And Others – 1981
Efforts to institutionalize Bloom's Mastery Learning Concept at the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) are described. Information on the City Colleges and the adaptation of mastery learning are presented, and the growth of the project in five phases beginning in 1972 is sketched. The optimal pattern for mastery learning consists of a series of small…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Standards, Community Colleges
Burrichter, Arthur W.; Gardner, Daniel L. – 1978
This publication is a guide for designing programs to develop adult educator competencies as determined by other adult educators in Florida. The first section of the three-part publication explains the process of developing the list of essential competencies needed by adult educators, which makes up the second section of the document. The listing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Community Development, Competence
Download full textShimoff, Eliot H.; Matthews, Byron A. – 1980
Five experiments were conducted to determine whether properties inherent in some training procedures may subtly influence the adaptability of skilled performance of complex tasks. The first two experiments assessed the insensitivity of low-rate performances. Examined in the third experiment was the issue of whether instructions that focus…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Style
Poppenhagen, Brent W.; And Others – 1981
Three current approaches to the investigation of active learning and a study of two designs of a field-based graduate course are considered. The first approach, by Lenore Borzak and Barbara Hursh (1977, 1979), centers around the study of students' cognitive development and changes in self-perception stemming from experiential learning. Another…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis, Education Majors
Illinois Central Coll. East Peoria. – 1979
Illinois Central College's Development of Operational Reasoning Skills (DOORS) project, which is based on Piaget's developmental theory and learning cycle strategy, is described. The project provides a multidisciplinary freshman core program focusing on the improvement of student reasoning abilities. For each of the six DOORS courses--English,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, College Freshmen, Community Colleges
ELLIS, NORMAN R. – 1963
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF 21 AUTHORS IN THIS VOLUME ARE DEVOTED TO ASSESSING THE STATUS OF RESEARCH AND THEORY IN MENTAL DEFICIENCY, FOCUSING ATTENTION ON THE BEHAVIOR OF THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED. PART ONE IS CONCERNED WITH RESEARCH FINDINGS AND THEORIES TO EXPLAIN MENTAL DEFICIENCY. COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES REPRESENTED INCLUDE FIELD…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Behavior, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research
MOULTON, WILLIAM G. – 1966
WRITTEN WITH THE IDEA THAT ONCE A LANGUAGE LEARNER HAS ACQUIRED A KIND OF LINGUISTIC SOPHISTICATION HE CAN LEARN ANY FOREIGN LANGUAGE MORE EFFICIENTLY, THIS INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE AND CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS PROVIDES SOME NEW INSIGHTS INTO HUMAN LANGUAGES. AFTER DISCUSSING BRIEFLY HOW DISTINCTLY ADVANTAGEOUS IT IS FOR THE…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Contrastive Linguistics
LADO, ROBERT – 1964
DESIGNED TO UPDATE THE CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGE TEACHER'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE INNOVATIONS IN HIS FIELD, THIS BOOK INTRODUCES SOME OF THE ESSENTIAL MAJOR AREAS OF WHICH HE SHOULD HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING TO APPROACH HIS WORK SCIENTIFICALLY. PART ONE, DEALING IN GENERAL TERMS WITH LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING, SETS THE TONE OF THE BOOK WITH DISCUSSIONS OF…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiovisual Aids, Cultural Context, Instructional Innovation
HURLEY, OLIVER L. – 1966
A LITERATURE REVIEW OF SIX KEY CONCEPTS OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC PROCESSES IS PRESENTED. THE SIX CONCEPTS ARE (1) COGNITIVE GROWTH, (2) PSYCHOLINGUISTIC MODELS SUCH AS THE ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITIES (ITPA), (3) INTERSENSORY INTEGRATION, (4) REMEDIAL TEACHING TECHNIQUES, (5) VISUALIZATION IN INTEGRATIVE TASKS, AND (6) CONCEPTUAL SCHEMA.…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Tests, Exceptional Child Research
Blum, Mark; Spangehl, Stephen – 1979
The theoretical basis of programmed instruction and the sequential skill development approach used at University of Louisville's University College are described, and results of student testing to determine the effectiveness of programmed instruction in the school's remedial program are examined. Nine areas of basic competencies needed for college…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, College Students
Shuman, R. Baird, Ed. – 1981
The essays in this collection are designed to provide an overview of the most pressing issues and ideas with which English teachers contend today and will contend in the near future. The contributors, 22 English teachers and educators, have attempted to view change in a sufficiently broad perspective to enable them to make responsible predictions…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Needs, Educational Planning, Educational Trends
Montgomery, Margaret Anne Patricia; Weakland, Jean Marie – 1967
The effects of various rates of presentation were studied in combination with massed and spaced, concurrent and nonconcurrent, overt and covert practice modes on film-mediated perceptual performance. Selected values of the independent variables were investigated within a 3x3x2 factorial design, and the experimental treatments were randomly ordered…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, Evaluation Methods
Marsden W. E. – 1976
The book relates rational curriculum planning to the field of geography. Intended as an aid to geography teachers and teachers in training as they reconstruct geography syllabi, the book emphasizes the need to evaluate what goes into as well as what comes out of the geography curriculum. Section I identifies aims and objectives of geographic…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Improvement
