Students with learning disabilities may gain from use of "flip-flop" study guides to gain key vocabulary and concepts. Rather than providing definitions for terms, the student provides terms for definitions and concepts in the study guide. Such guides allow the teacher to focus on particular concepts and provide repetition of information for…

Stresses the importance of outdoor ethics education and describes educational strategies such as public awareness campaigns, codes of ethics, dilemma discussions, role plays and simulations, "trigger" films, guided ethics observations, recognizing and rewarding ethical behavior, using role models, guiding students in developing personal…

Defines and compares project-organized learning and problem-based learning at a theoretical and practical level. Outlines differences and similarities both for institutions practicing and for institutions planning to implement some of these educational ideas. Contains 14 references. (JRH)

Examined (n=12) Year-12 students' awareness and application of learning strategies. Identified five possible reasons for students' failure to use appropriate learning strategies in mathematics. Without appropriate strategic learning behaviors students will be ill equipped to cope with the high cognitive demands of a constructivist learning…

Strategy use and its impact on standardized reading test performance were studied with 128 high school students. Students in a standardized test condition used more strategies than those asked merely to identify main ideas. Thinking aloud had detrimental effects on ability to identify main ideas. (SLD)

Examined the effect of functional values of stimuli on orienting response elicitation. Subjects were 50 4-month-old infants and were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 experimental conditions. Results suggested the importance of taking into account the functional value of stimuli when analyzing infant attention. (MOK)

Explains a way to grow fern gametophytes and describes the use of these gametophytes to enable students to grasp the concept of alternation of generations. (DDR)

Presents a student-centered approach to reflective learning through a partnership between disciplinary-based academic staff and educational development staff members in a postgraduate Environmental Engineering Postgraduate Diploma/MSc program at the University of Strathclyde. Students were encouraged to maintain project management logbooks to…

Points out the importance of the Internet in education and discusses the complementary roles of oral and written teaching and learning. Analyzes the Knowledge Integration Environment (KIE) program. (Contains 13 references.) (YDS)

Recounts the use of pets in a kindergarten classroom for children to experience pet ownership and to share the care of animals. Outlines the entire process of pet selection, program implementation, and reactions to the program. Notes that in addition to exposure to pet care, children quickly learned the days of the week and recycling concepts. (SD)

Presents the results of (n=23) seventh- and eighth-grade students' interviews as they solve problems related to four linear geometric patterns involving perimeter and area. Students' responses suggest four levels of thinking about linear geometric number patterns. (Contains 33 references.) (Author/ASK)

One hundred sixth-graders studied a list of new vocabulary items according to either a semantic-context or mnemonic learning strategy, combined with either an individual or pair format for studying and testing. Results indicate that when a scripted learning pair-learning/testing format was incorporated, vocabulary learning benefits were observed…

States that many international schools have taken on the role of being community centers that support families adjusting to life in a foreign country. Describes several community-service programs that are not strictly school-based and that help students and families be aware of the broader community's culture as well as the campus'. (Contains 10…

Discusses numeracy strategy. Focuses on gaining insight into student understanding of number. Discusses the benefits of this long-overdue numeracy strategy. (ASK)

Introduces a study conducted to establish the relevance and significance of a new model to describe individual differences in learning patterns among college students in the general chemistry program. Concludes that individual students learn and demonstrate understanding in different ways, and understanding those differences makes for more…