How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are relevant to their everyday lives? In this volume, practical questions that confront every classroom teacher are addressed using the latest exciting research on cognition, teaching, and learning. How Students…

This is a case study of motivation to learn Arabic as a foreign language at the university level in the United States. Three students enrolled in second year Arabic were the participants. Data about each participant were collected through observation of weekly group conversations, and analysis of grade records for the whole semester during which…

The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of a learning game, of student teams, and of the games-teams combination on classroom processes. (Author)

Article described new programs in preservice teacher education and inservice programs designed to usher in open education. (Editor/RK)

One prime consideration in facilities design is physical environment. Author contends that an equal consideration must be the type of instruction that is to take place. Unless the two considerations are integrated, the resulting structure will fall far short of its ultimate potential. (Author)

Develops a perspective on relevance and suggests some means of maximizing the effectiveness of our educational goals in teaching the disadvantaged child mathematics. (Author/JM)

The present study sought to investigate the outcomes of the mastery instruction approach compared to a nonmastery approach of instruction with varying amounts of feedback being given to students with regard to their responses to multiple-choice test items on mastery tests. (Author)

Outlines the development of a complex learning management system, which made individualized instruction programs easier and more economical to implement. (Author/RK)

The South Central Kansas Elementary Science-Math Project involves integrating science and math, active learning, and inquiry. Approximately 25,000 students are involved in the program. (CP)

The development and evaluation of programed materials require a consideration of the relation between student characteristics, nature of the subject matter, and programing variables. (Author/CP)