The role of educational technologists in the British Open University is examined, and the underlying assumptions of educational technology are questioned.

Socratic dialogues are analyzed to elucidate the model of Socratic teaching, important components of which include love of knowledge, epistemic community, unlearning of false beliefs, and cognitive synthesis of educational experiences. (GW)

A method of eliciting learners' intuitions of grammaticality was developed and used in a pilot project involving 100 ESL students. (Author/RM)

We propose a methodology for studying the processes of learning and teaching mathematics. We will argue that this methodology carries many of the advantages of qualitative approaches while still keeping the main advantage of quantitative research methodology, which is the potential to produce findings that could be generalized. At the heart of…

This is a workshop designed to help high school change teams increase their understanding of personalized learning and learn ways to adapt existing practices to improve student engagement. The series draws from six years of assisting schools that have been struggling to find ways for their diverse students to meet uniform expectations. It is also…

This workshop stresses the importance of advisories to the learning process. It stresses that relationships and the personalization of learning are fundamentals to the learning process both in and out of school. It suggests that advisory groups, even in large schools, create the conditions for improving student achievement and behavior and enrich…

How does individual learning impact team learning? Through an exploratory case study, data was collected from questionnaires, documentation review, observations, and interviews. Three themes emerged describing how an autonomous learner affected team learning. The results indicated that the autonomous learner influenced team learning through…

Distance learning is an excellent method of teaching adult learners because they need flexibility to contend with competing priorities. Adult learning is not without problems, however, such as loss of motivation because of lack of face-to-face contact with teachers and peers, potentially prohibitive start-up costs, and lack of faculty support. In…

Tests--typically cognitive achievement tests--are instruments for providing a more sensitive analysis of the learning sequence and of the instruction guiding it. In addition to an overall score, standardized tests provide a variety of subscores that help the teachers identify where a student might be encountering the greatest difficulties. The…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the nature of students' responses to an innovative curriculum unit in which I attempted to help students build bridges between traditional practices and beliefs about aspects of health and conventional western science concepts. This paper reports on the responses of one articulate student, who has given…

The purpose of this article is to provide a series of planning steps whereby performance can become a more explicit part of the curriculum development process. (Author)

Article discussed a method, developed by Shinichi Suzuki, for teaching violin to infants and young people and, as well, provided a few examples of physical movement from his teaching method. (RK)

The purpose herein is to suggestively demonstrate that careful scrutiny of the existing body of knowledge by practicing educators can reveal possible solutions to the continual attacks upon American education by diverting energy to the enhancement of educational endeavors. (Author/RK)

A modified plan to incorporate competency-based instruction and individualized units into a mechanical design-drafting course is outlined. (MS)

In this study an attempt has been made to pull research studies about creativity, in general, and art, specifically, in relation to personality and learning. (Author)