Transformational Events is a new pedagogic pattern that explains how innovations (and other transformations) happened. The pattern is three temporal stages: an interval of increasingly unsatisfactory ad hoc solutions to a persistent problem (the "mess"), an offer of an invention or of a new way of thinking, and a period of widespread adoption and…

Our approach to emotion in school mathematics draws on social semiotics, pedagogic discourse theory and psychoanalysis. Emotions are considered as socially organised and shaped by power relations; we portray emotion as a charge (of energy) attached to ideas or signifiers. We analyse transcripts from a small group solving problems in mathematics…

A Number of good ideas can help improve the achievement of low-performing students and close the achievement gap, including determining the placement of veteran teachers, purchasing new curricula, and providing after-school tutoring. However, it is the teacher--and what the teacher does in the classroom--that makes the most difference for…

A new procedure is proposed for developing, evaluating, and implementing routing procedures for use with individualized instruction programs. An item response theory model for describing the relationship between performance on sequentially arranged units of instruction, and procedures for using the model to evaluate sequential relationships and…

The Delphi Technique in modified form was used by seniors majoring in early childhood education to develop and devise a definition of effective early childhood teaching. The four major categories of effective early childhood teaching were teacher attitude, child orientation, curriculum approach, and classroom physical characteristics. (Author)

The study investigates the usefulness of teaching science courses that have a commonality of subject matter and a sequential patterning of operations. Introductory Physical Science (IPS) and CHEM Study courses were compared. The results indicated IPS is a useful background for CHEM Study. (BR)

S. Jackson and S. Jacobs's criticism of "single message" designs in communication research served as a framework for a study that examined the differences between various sequential request paradigms. The study sought to answer the following questions: (1) What were the most naturalistic request sequences assured to replicate…

Designed to assist administrators, supervisors, and elementary and secondary school classroom teachers and theater specialists in developing a sequential theater arts curriculum, this curriculum guide provides directions for developing curricular and cocurricular theater arts programs based on the individual needs of learners from kindergarten…

This book is designed to help teachers, assistants, and volunteers who work in day care centers, preschools, and kindergartens teach basic skills to young children (ages 3-6) when they are ready to acquire the skill. Separate sections are provided for each of 11 skill areas: (1) listening; (2) memory; (3) colors; (4) counting; (5) geometric…

This chapter presents Hutchinson's Metamethodology, which is a methodology for building methodologies. The methodology is composed of a set of rules and procedures that, when followed and applied to any problem area, will result in a systematic set of procedures for dealing with that problem area. The following major processes of the methodology…

The Course Sequencing Pathways Computer Support System was developed at Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) to aid students and advisors in selecting appropriate courses based on test scores, MDCC graduation requirements, the university of choice (if applicable), and the student's major. A student report, which is calculated on-line, is available…

Summarizes the characteristics of critical path methods for preparing curricula, including behavioral definitions of curriculum objectives, module lengths, effects of published network of prerequisites on individually paced learning, and forms of network-based planning. Indicates that the network planning has the advantage of clarifying the place…

This research investigates stochastic approximation procedures of the Robbins-Monro type. Following a brief introduction to sequential experimentation, attention is focused on formal methods for selecting successive values of a single independent variable. Empirical results obtained through computer simulation are used to compare several formal…

Subjects of several ages were asked to copy, trace, or point to the beginning of a set of shapes. The aim was to determine the extent to which sequential behavior was consistent across tasks. With one notable exception, behavior was consistent. (Author/BJG)