Defines the functional role of evaluation in worker education; explains the relationship between evaluation and quality of learning; discusses precourse, on-course, and postcourse evaluation; outlines training managers' roles and responsibilities; and addresses management of the learning environment. (SK)

When carefully structured and appropriately used, cooperative learning can be highly effective at any grade level. To provide teachers with appropriate feedback, principals observing cooperative-learning classrooms must recognize whether the lesson is worth doing cooperatively, the students demonstrate positive interdependence and individual…

The systems model of team learning grew out of a case study of one company. The model's four phases are fragmented, pooled, synergistic, and continuous learning. (SK)

Suggests that social interaction of a child in the role of tutor in guided environments allows the building of geometrical concepts in nursery school based on strategies formed in natural settings. Shows a systemic improvement in students' performances when different contexts of guidance were used. (DSK)

Offers a suggestion to extend the K-W-L instructional activity (which helps young learners develop appropriate questions for research and organizing what they know) by adding another column: the "where" column, which helps young learners focus on where specific information can be located. Offers an example drawn from work with nine-year…

Presents the results of an exploratory multi-method evaluation study and transcript analysis of an online forum. Highlights include use of a constructivist interaction analysis model to help understand and assess online learning; social interchange; and social discord and knowledge construction. (Author/LRW)

Argues that metamemory should be conceptualized as personalized, constructed knowledge consisting of accurate and naive beliefs. Illustrates the advantages of such a conceptualization using data about the development of children's beliefs about long-term retention. Concludes by sketching future directions for research in this area. (DSK)

Conducts experiments to investigate the effects of extra contexts (pictures or example sentences) on learning context-dependent words. Finds no differences from results obtained with context-free words and shows that extra contexts inhibit learning context-dependent words in simultaneous presentations. Notes that application of feedback techniques…

Presents, in their own words, teachers in the process of becoming researchers. Shows how research is not just neatly laid out end-products of new knowledge but is also the ticks of discomfort arising from new awareness. Notes that all of the teachers featured were going about their normal daily tasks when they experience major changes as…

Introduces the topic of the journal issue--how college students learn--linking traditional educational research and contextual classroom research. The cognitive-mediation model of college student learning is briefly described in combination with some research that supports it. The article presents some implications for faculty development within…

Reports on a study of nursing education at the University of Southern Queensland (Australia) that sought to integrate-computer mediated communication, collaborative learning, and reflection on critical incidences to make the most of learning opportunities confronted by learners and practitioners in situ. Discusses learning and instructional…

Investigates the impact of colonization on indigenous teaching and learning. Asserts that indigenous and western European concepts of knowledge must be placed in a framework of mutual interaction. Describes how culturally appropriate teaching and learning practices are being brought into the Australian educational systems to establish a more…

Adult and 10- and 12-month olds participated in two experiments to determine reliance of infants on object-kind information in solving problems of object individuation. Findings converge with those of object-first hypothesis of developmental course of object individuation. Findings suggest that young infants may represent one concept as criteria…

Access to information is inadequate without attention to learning processes and the use of information in the production of knowledge. The ability to sift sources, discriminate, and think is far more important than the ability to find vast quantities of information. (SK)

Offers a rebuttal to the article "Does Experience in the Arts Boost Academic Achievement?" by Elliot Eisner in which Eisner wants to restore the arts-based and arts-related ends of art education. Reviews Eisner's research, evidence, and theoretical foundations in order to assert the influence of arts education on students' academic success. (CMK)