In their analysis of reciprocal determinism, Phillips and Orton (TM 509 061) mistakenly assume that behavior, cognitive and other personal factors, and environmental events operate as a simultaneous wholistic interaction. Contrary to this belief, the interactants in triadic reciprocality work their mutual effects sequentially over variable time…

Teaching students to unscramble sentences in a paragraph. (SP)

Describes a learning ladder model used in sequencing and covering subject matter, which provides a favorable learning experience for the student in the introduction to business course. (JOW)

Defining the difficulty of a task includes how long the task takes; its features, complexity, and newness; and understanding/willingness to complete it. Problems with determining difficulty levels make it questionable to claim that higher levels of a qualifications framework are more difficult than lower levels. (SK)

Part two of a proposal for a unified, sequential approach to environmental education. Presents a working model for the environmental education curriculum and expert reactions to the model. (LZ)

Storyboarding, the process of sketching visual and narrative information to plan media productions, can be an effective tool for designing instructional materials. Storyboarding enables organization and sequencing, expansion and reduction of content, text development, selection of production medium, and formulation of sensitive evaluation…

Describes design logic and potential uses of a variant of the multiple-baseline design. The multiple-baseline multiple-sequence (MBL-MS) consists of multiple-baseline designs that are interlaced with one another and include all possible sequences of treatments. The MBL-MS design appears to be primarily useful for comparison of treatments taking…

My purpose in this paper is to present a didactic tool--a set of specially designed problems and questions for discussion--that can help making students better aware of the various aspects of the formal notion of limit of a sequence. The didactic tool will be justified using results from my own and other authors' research on students' naive or…

This manuscript seeks to share the continuous improvement endeavors by the College of Education faculty and administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from initial preparation and planning through their successful national and state accreditation achieved in November 2005. Beginning with the unit's revision of their conceptual…

There is significant potential for error in long production processes that consist of sequential stages, each of which is heavily dependent on the previous stage, such as the SER (Scoring, Equating, and Reporting) process. Quality control procedures are required in order to monitor this process and to reduce the number of mistakes to a minimum. In…

Most beginning calculus courses spend little or no time on a technical definition of the limit concept. In most of the remaining courses, the definition presented is the traditional epsilon-delta definition. An alternative approach that bases the definition on infinite sequences has occasionally appeared in commercial textbooks but has not yet…

Data exists in the context of a community that drives data collection and use. The effective use of data can help principals make informed decisions about their policies, practices, and procedures to improve student achievement. The more systematic and thorough principals are about bringing data to the table when making decisions, the more…