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Berliner, David C. – 1975
The heart of performance- and competency-based teacher education, evaluation, and accountability programs is the establishment of empirical relationships between teacher behavior as an independent variable and student achievement as a dependent variable. Before researchers can adequately establish those relationships they need to deal with the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Classroom Research, Competency Based Teacher Education
Maulding, Wanda S. – 2002
Cognitive intelligence is often equated with eventual success in many areas. However, there are many instances where people of high IQ flounder whereas those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. Author and renowned psychologist Daniel Goleman believes that the explanation for this fact lies in abilities called "emotional intelligence,"…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Effectiveness, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Abrahamson, Dor – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
The paper describes the rationale and 10-day implementation in a 5th-grade classroom (n=19) of an experimental ratio-and-proportion instructional design. In this constructivist-phenomenological design, coming from our theoretical perspective, design research, and domain analysis, students: (1) link "real-world" and "mathematical" objects…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Instructional Design, Concept Formation, Mathematics Instruction
Campbell, Linda; Campbell, Bruce; Dickinson, Dee – 1996
In his studies of human capacity, Howard Gardner revealed a wider family of human intelligences than previously suggested. Noting that restricting educational programs to focusing on a preponderance of linguistic and mathematical intelligences minimizes the importance of other forms of knowing, this book presents strategies for creating open…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Style
O'Connell, Judy; Henri, James – 1997
Teaching within a student-centered paradigm in an information society means accepting the responsibility of teaching for the acquisition of integrated information habits and fully adaptable lifelong information skills. Education today demands classroom teachers who can: model good practice in education programs that teach students to become aware…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Uses in Education, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
Levy, Michael – 1997
This book provides a descriptive discussion of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), examining its origins, scope, and directions and looking at its connections to other disciplines. It also incorporates results of a survey of 104 CALL practitioners in 18 countries. The first two chapters set CALL in historical and interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computers, Educational Change
Salling Olesen, Henning – 2000
The Life History Project at Denmark's Roskilde University is a 5-year research project that was initiated in 1998 to examine learning and participation in adult and continuing education from a life history perspective. The project was designed to build on a broad range of qualitative interview studies and case studies into learning processes. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Biographies, Continuing Education
Egger, Rudolf – 2000
The applications of biographical concepts in educational settings were examined through a case study of one researcher's use of the biographical narrative interview to examine the connection between subjective and structural conditions and coping strategies in individual lives and to inform adult education practitioners. The biographical approach…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Biographical Inventories, Case Studies
Reynard, Ruth – 2003
This paper highlights the possibilities that Internet technology presents for the creation of an online, dynamic learning environment for language learners. Rather than simply use the Internet to deliver course content, the paper demonstrates the learning process can benefit from the interactive, self-directed, and self-authoring potential of the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, English (Second Language), Higher Education
National Languages and Literacy Inst. of Australia, Melbourne. Adult Education Resource and Information Service. – 1999
This information sheet provides a summary of general observations regarding adult learners. Adults from different walks of life may seek out learning at different times in their lives, for different reasons, and for vastly different purposes. Adult learning groups may include students of different ages, cultures, and educational and socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Andragogy
Dickie, Simonne D. M. – 1999
A phenomenological hermeneutic approach was used to explore the process of being and becoming a distance learner and ways the distance learning environment is inhabited or known. The study's author analyzed her own distance learning experiences and those of three other individuals (two females and one male) with an interest in education and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Distance Education, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives
Ballenger, Cynthia – 1999
This book details the experiences of a teacher in a Haitian-populated preschool in an urban area of the United States, focusing on the development of literacy and English as a second language. An introductory chapter describes the children, some of their personal and cultural background, their classroom demeanor, and the context in which they were…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Classroom Research
Mackintosh, Helen K.; Guilfoile, Elizabeth – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
Published originally in 1952, the bulletin "How Children Learn to Read" was the first in a series designed to illustrate the philosophy and principles set forth in The Place of Subjects in the Curriculum, Bulletin 1949, No. 12. It was planned to describe as simply as possible, especially for inexperienced teachers and for parents, the process of…
Descriptors: Teachers, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Learning Processes

Swaminathan, Sudha; Yelland, Nicola – Childhood Education, 2003
World-wide incorporation of new technologies into the classroom has revealed many common issues. These include the following: governments link educational technology to their country's stature; appropriate teacher training is lacking; equity and accessibility vary; and because technologies engage children with learning in new and dynamic ways,…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Alternative Assessment, Computer Literacy, Computer Use

Berson, Michael J. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1996
Examines the literature on the effectiveness of computers in social studies instruction and learning. Topics include drill and practice, tutorials, study guides, games and simulations, inquiry and problem solving, graphics, and word processing and writing. Contains 58 references. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Games, Computer Graphics, Computer Simulation