Describes Project Comptown, an Israeli research-oriented educational intervention designed to create a computer culture in the schools and to use the computer's potential for innovative teaching and learning in both the schools and the community. Highlights include implementation analysis and teacher involvement and training. (31 references)…

Discusses the nature and function of formative assessment in the development of students' expertise for evaluating the quality of their own work. Highlights include the transition from teacher-supplied feedback to learner self-monitoring; qualitative judgments; communicating standards to students; multicriterion judgments; and implications for the…

Discusses the need to consider the cognitive models of students and their learning processes when designing computer tutorials, and describes a tutorial designed to teach students how to generate algebraic equations for story problems. Testing and revisions of the tutorial, with both college and high school students are described. (14 references)…

Describes School for International Training (SIT) in Battleboro, Vermont, academic arm of Experiment in International Living. SIT develops individuals' knowledge of world issues and use of cross-cultural communication skills. Details stages of SIT model: formal study; field experience (internships, travel abroad); reflection (evaluation); and…

Meta-analysis was used to assess the effect of metacognitive instruction on reading comprehension. Twenty studies from the reading research literature were compiled and quantitatively synthesized. Results affirm the effectiveness of metacognitive strategies, especially for junior high school students. Textual inconsistency awareness,…

Reviews conceptual bases for hypertext, relates them to hypertext design issues, and suggests research issues that need to be addressed. Topics discussed include cognitive psychology; schema theory and semantic networks; problems with hypertext; knowledge structures; software; inductive and deductive design methods; and expert systems. (12…

Discusses a study designed to evaluate the relationship between curriculum innovation and the classroom instructional methods of teachers and their students. Concludes that although significant changes in classroom practices accompany the introduction of a new curriculum package, the changes were antithetical to the intentions of the package…

Reports on a qualitative study of teaching-learning by analogy that explores whether fifth-grade students' successful use of analogy in learning science was related to their understanding of a specific analogy; their metacognitive awareness of how the analogy was to be used and of the changes produced in their conceptual structures. (57…

Discussion of student assessment at the college level looks at the relationship between grading and student learning and proposes an alternative system in which letter grades would be replaced with a two-part evaluation by the student and teacher. A practical compromise using letter grades is also outlined. (MSE)

Discussion of the impact of information literacy programs on student learning focuses on a study in a Sydney (Australia) high school that tested the assumption that information skills instruction, integrated into the science curriculum, contributed to student achievement as well as to overall student attitudes and motivation. (13 references) (LRW)

Critical thinking exercises incorporated into an undergraduate course of bibliographic instruction encourage students to analyze and evaluate information and retrieval methods, thus enabling them to become more effective information users. (AEF)

Discusses university expectations of student applicants, investigates student preparedness for entry into higher education, and identifies learning outcomes that need to be formed to prepare students for the realities of higher education. Provides a model for a modular, semesterized program that prepares students for the experience of higher…

Operation Breakthrough, in which graduate student interns teach life skills to adolescents with learning disabilities, provided an impetus for identifying a profile of learning and work habits necessary for production of an agile workforce. Agile learning for self-systems improvement calls for self-empowered learning, collaborative learning,…

Reviews factors influencing reversals of expectations for language-learning outcomes. This article touches on psychological and neurological data regarding individual differences in language-learning mechanisms and focuses on cross-linguistic psycholinguistic analysis that indicates that different target languages offer a wide variety of learning…

Discusses how teachers can learn to capitalize on the moment of understanding in students. Suggests the opening into young minds is ephemeral, and once the opportunity to answer or confirm or pursue a topic is lost, the opportunity is difficult or impossible to recapture. (ET)