Points out the importance of the Internet in education and discusses the complementary roles of oral and written teaching and learning. Analyzes the Knowledge Integration Environment (KIE) program. (Contains 13 references.) (YDS)

Recounts the use of pets in a kindergarten classroom for children to experience pet ownership and to share the care of animals. Outlines the entire process of pet selection, program implementation, and reactions to the program. Notes that in addition to exposure to pet care, children quickly learned the days of the week and recycling concepts. (SD)

Presents the results of (n=23) seventh- and eighth-grade students' interviews as they solve problems related to four linear geometric patterns involving perimeter and area. Students' responses suggest four levels of thinking about linear geometric number patterns. (Contains 33 references.) (Author/ASK)

One hundred sixth-graders studied a list of new vocabulary items according to either a semantic-context or mnemonic learning strategy, combined with either an individual or pair format for studying and testing. Results indicate that when a scripted learning pair-learning/testing format was incorporated, vocabulary learning benefits were observed…

States that many international schools have taken on the role of being community centers that support families adjusting to life in a foreign country. Describes several community-service programs that are not strictly school-based and that help students and families be aware of the broader community's culture as well as the campus'. (Contains 10…

Discusses numeracy strategy. Focuses on gaining insight into student understanding of number. Discusses the benefits of this long-overdue numeracy strategy. (ASK)

Introduces a study conducted to establish the relevance and significance of a new model to describe individual differences in learning patterns among college students in the general chemistry program. Concludes that individual students learn and demonstrate understanding in different ways, and understanding those differences makes for more…

Introduces programs that assist blind students such as Tactile Access to Education for Visually Impaired Students (TAEVIS). Reports on two blind students who successfully completed physics courses and their learning strategies. Discusses the accessibility of visual aids. (YDS)

This article discusses the use of a neural systems perspective to explain some of the behavioral impairments in autism and why some methods work the way they do. It suggests some optimal or even new ways of improving the behavioral treatment of autism and coupling it with other treatment methods. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Examines the effects of different feedback strategies on student achievement and attitude development. Participants were 165 university students. Results indicate different levels of feedback strategies functioned "identically" in facilitating student achievement. Attitudes toward the different feedback strategies were, in general, positive…

Examines the role of interactivity in the presentation of science news on the World Wide Web. Proposes and tests a model of interactive information processing that suggests that characteristics of users and Web sites influence interactivity, which influences knowledge acquisition. Describes use of a think-aloud method to study participants' mental…

Lists and discusses the functions that cooperative quizzes can serve if structured correctly. The quizzes can facilitate a greater understanding of the subject, promote better test-taking skills, and be used as a mechanism to foster cooperative groups. (DDR)

Describes the problem based learning (PBL) approach in medical education and discusses learning and study skills in PBL. (YDS)

Introduces a special issue on the ways in which symbolic tools enable, mediate, and shape mathematical thinking while being themselves a product of these processes. (Author/MM)

Presents a cultural-developmental framework for the analysis of children's mathematics in collective practices and illustrates the heuristic value of the framework through the analysis of videotaped episodes drawn from a middle-school classroom. Discusses the promise and limitations of the framework as a method for furthering understanding of the…