Investigated how Israeli and Dutch teacher educators conceptualized self-regulated learning (SRL) and what they meant by actively utilizing SRL approaches, both in their own professional development and as a way to involve students in SRL. Teacher interviews indicated that although the two groups differed somewhat in their views of their own…

Describes a literature-based approach that was used successfully at the University of Cincinnati in a one-quarter advanced undergraduate inorganic chemistry laboratory course. (KHR)

Describes activities for K-12 students, most of which are adapted from "The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Scientific Discovery Educator's Resource Guide" created by the partnership of Fort Clatsop National Memorial and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (Author/KHR)

Presents procedures for weather studies as exciting and relatively simple research projects for students to perform. Expects that students gain an accurate view of the scientific process in addition to real-world experience as they face challenging setbacks and make unexpected discoveries along the way. Includes cross-curricular applications.…

Presents strategies for improving student literacy skills within the social studies discipline, focusing on the book, "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl." Includes strategies for prereading (what we Know-what we Want to know- what we Learned (K-W-L) and Anticipation-Reaction guides), during reading (graphic organizers), and post…

Examines the impact of the transition from elementary to secondary school on students' motivational profile and its link to academic achievement. Focuses on sixth grade and secondary one students (girls, n=186; boys, n=150) at the end of the school year. Reports the most powerful indicator of academic performance was self-efficacy. (CMK)

Explored teachers' verbal motivational strategies, applying a framework derived from expectancy-theory which addresses student motivation for academic tasks. Audio-taped math and literacy lessons of two exemplary second grade teachers showed a high number of comments related to experiences and relatively few related to valuing tasks. Teachers made…

Investigated the potential of incorporating learning strategy instruction into hypermedia learning materials in a high school computer class. Discusses results of a six-week intervention where the experimental group participated in learning strategy training in conjunction with hypermedia computer networking lessons and reports results of pre- and…

Discusses developments in international online learning and suggests ways for people to build courses from their own cultural perspectives. Highlights include advantages of international collaboration; differences in cultural environments; and resources for bringing online communities together to discuss topics of common interest. (Author/LRW)

Among 28 upper elementary learning-disabled students in a summer remedial program, those that were taught spelling with explicit rule-based strategies out-performed students presented with a visual imagery mnemonic on unit tests, a posttest, and a standardized spelling test. Contains 20 references. (SV)

Evaluated effects of daily practice writing spelling words in sentences on generalization of spelling words to written work. Findings from mildly mentally handicapped students (n=4) aged 8 to 13 showed that generalization of the target spelling words to written work was improved by sentence writing. Follow-up condition indicated maintenance of…

Develops an empirical typology of students' spontaneous study strategies based on verbal reports from United States college students. Describes in detail the typical tactics used by the six types of studiers. Finds no significant differences among the six types in the amount of information recalled immediately from the text. (RS)

For all the arguments for using computer-based drill in urban classrooms, both urban and suburban students should use computers for data collection and analysis, daily writing, and problem solving. Child development follows a universal pattern: children learn when opportunities to learn open up to them. A sidebar furnishes tips for using classroom…

Examines the general challenge of proficiency-oriented methodology as applied specifically to beginning Russian-as-a-Second-Language teaching. (Author/OD)

Examines the origin of expressive writing, briefly reviewing Britain's language-across-the-curriculum reform movement and expressive writing's debt to that movement. Describes a conference where British and American educators exchanged ideas about language and learning. Explains how pyscholinguistics has provided the intellectual framework for…