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Alton-Lee, Adrienne; Haberfield, Robin – 1982
Data were gathered, using pre and posttests and interviews, on the learning of individual students during a seven-week unit on a science topic (conservation) in a fourth grade classroom. Case studies of the learning experiences of each child, based on recordings and detailed observations of all class activities, were used to predict student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques
Singer, Harry, Ed.; Bean, Thomas W., Ed. – 1984
Papers in this report were presented at a conference on text characteristics, convened as part of the Learning from Text Project. The foreword describes the University of California and California State University Joint Projects Steering Committee project to determine the relationship between ability to learn from text and academic achievement,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria
Spector, Barbara S.; Gibson, Charles W. – 1989
The purpose of this study was to explore middle school students' perceptions of what factors facilitated their learning of science. Between 50 and 60 high-achieving middle school students were in residence on the University of South Florida campus for 12 consecutive days of study in the "World of Water" program. There were two sessions per summer…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Curriculum Design, Intermediate Grades
Saville-Troike, Muriel – 1987
A study investigated the hypothesis that during the "silent" period of second language learning, in which there is a dramatic drop in language directed to speakers of the second language, children not only passively assimilate second language input but also use private speech to actively integrate it. The study examined the learning…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, Chinese
Pierce, Lorraine Valdez, Comp. – 1987
Insights gained from experience and research on language minority students' academic success are reviewed as background for presentation of a curriculum that is bilingual and content-based and uses cooperative learning techniques. First, findings on three elements of success (interest and motivation, intelligence and development, and psychosocial…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development
Grauer, Stuart – 1985
Using current mind/brain research, this paper explores the "hidden curriculum" in the contexts of teaching, learning and supervision. It explains ways in which current research on the nature of learning can fit into today's typical, "clinical" teaching techniques. The importance of respecting individual modes of learning is stressed; further to…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Associative Learning, Brain, Cerebral Dominance
Booker, Theresa – 1984
An interdisciplinary critical reasoning and reading course (ICCR), developed to address problems of undergraduates who lack critical reasoning and oral and written communication skills, is described in this paper. The first two sections of the paper provide a rationale for the use of collaborative team instruction based on Feuerstein's model of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Cooperative Planning
Romberg, Thomas A., Ed.; Stewart, Deborah M., Ed. – 1987
This document is the second of three related volumes. They present the rationale, background, and framework for a comprehensive monitoring system being developed for the National Science Foundation. The system is being designed to gather information about the effects of national, state, and local policy actions designed to change the teaching and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attitude Measures, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment
Good, Thomas L. – 1982
Individual teacher behaviors, characteristics, and instructional methods make an important difference in what and how well students learn. Children enter school with a wide variety of differences in family background and aspirations, expectations, and previous learning. Research on learning in the home, nursery school, and kindergarten points out…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment
Sekiguchi, Reiko W. – 1984
This paper discusses demographic changes in Japan, the sources of pleasure of the retired Japanese senior citizen, and lifelong learning. It also describes a study that examined learning preferences of Japanese senior citizens. Data for 1983 show that life expectancy has increased in Japan to 74.20 years for males and 79.78 for females. The level…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Aging (Individuals), Comparative Education, Course Content
Tobias, Sigmund – 1984
Students' macroprocessing of instruction was studied in a learning situation which used adjunct questions. The subjects were offered various macroprocessing options while reading a passage on data processing and computer programming. Each sentence appeared on a computer CRT screen one at a time. The options included: (1) review any sentence or…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing
Agency for International Development (IDCA), Washington, DC. Bureau of Science and Technology. – 1983
Research on the role of educational radio in the classroom sponsored by the Agency for International Development over a ten-year period in Nicaragua, Kenya, and the Dominican Republic is reviewed. An introductory section outlines the reasons for using radio for instructional purposes: (1) it is widespread and democratic; (2) serious radio use is…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Techniques, Costs, Developing Nations
Butler-Wall, Brita – 1975
Videotape is much like audio tape in that it is magnetic tape on which a signal is electronically recorded, but it carries both an audio and a video signal. Video equipment demands a rather large initial expense but tape is relatively inexpensive. The magnifying, dynamic and synthesizing properties of this medium lend themselves to meeting some…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness
Giordano, Gerard – 1977
Neurological data indicate that the universal aptitude for functional language is biologically based, species specific, and developmental. The universality of functional oral speech is indisputable. Everyone, however, does not exhibit similar expertise in processing oral and visual language. Many people can speak two languages functionally but…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes
Levine, S. Joseph; And Others – 1981
This learning packet consists of a leader's guide and handout materials, for conducting inservice workshops on adult learning for adult educators. Twelve modules are included in the binder. Each of these modules is a separate workshop training activity, most of which will take no more than one hour to conduct. Each of the modules includes a…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs