Investigates learning differences (measuring and analyzing effects and interactions) in 3 Web environments that either matched or mismatched the individual's learning orientation (represented as an integrated set of psychological factors--cognitive, affective, cognitive, and social--that influence how individuals approach learning). Analyzes…

Explains how course-embedded, qualitative-assessment strategies can focus faculty attention on the actual learning taking place for students. Finds that, when faculty assign a high priority to facilitating student learning rather than merely transferring information, they are demonstrating a behavior that reflects the paradigm shift from a…

Contributors to this special issue present information that has accrued within specific subfields of self-regulated learning. Essays discuss key issues of self-regulated learning, providing suggestions on how the modeling, scaffolding, and fading of self-regulatory skills can be done. (SLD)

Explores the differences between deep and surface approaches to learning science. Findings indicate that the deep-surface learning differences fall into five categories: (1) generative thinking; (2) nature of explanations; (3) asking questions; (4) metacognitive activity; and (5) approach to tasks. Suggests that teachers can encourage a deep…

Presents componential item response theory as a model-oriented approach to studying processes and strategies underlying the incorrect/correct responses to cognitive test tasks. Results from 417 elementary school students show that combining knowledge of solution strategies with Item Response Theory modeling produced a useful unidimensional scale…

Discussion of project-based learning focuses on a study that examined if being hypermedia designers could have an effect on fourth graders' motivation and learning of design knowledge. Results show enhanced motivation, and the development of design knowledge and higher-order thinking skills, including collaboration and time management. (Author/LRW)

Includes three articles that address issues concerned with how to use the Internet in classrooms. Highlights include searching for truth and learning for understanding versus searching for facts; the potential impact upon young people of various digital ad campaigns; and a review of a book that discusses successful technology infusion in schools.…

Describes the author's research on learning and brain activity, which involved more than 5,000 students and faculty members. Explores six stages of learning: (1) preparing to learn; (2) starting to learn; (3) consolidation; (4) branching out; (5) gaining fluency; and (6) continued improving. States that merging educational research with…

Contends that play-based literacy offers a much-needed reasonable response to the increasing expectations placed on young children and their teachers for literacy development. Presents first-hand accounts of preschool teachers' responses to new play- based literacy activities. Notes that these changes resulted in significantly increased levels of…

Reviews a teacher training project that brought together 20 teachers from Hungary and the United States to develop and implement an environmental education curriculum. Initially, the teachers differed in their definitions of environmental education, teaching, and curriculum reform. By the end, teacher definitions of environmental education…

Investigated how teachers at various levels of technology use and teaching abilities used technology and how technology use related to general teaching practice. Highlights include teachers' personal definitions of technology integration; planning habits for technology inclusion; strategies for teaching about technology that matched teacher…

Advocates the need for pupils to practice significant aspects of scientific work such as the making of epistemic (related to the nature and construction of knowledge) and methodological decisions. This requires that they work on problems and activities presented in a more open way than usual. Describes a case study. (Contains 11 references.)…

Reports a study of the preferred classroom learning situation of 11 adult immigrant learners of English in an Adult Migrant English Service (AMES) program in Melbourne, Australia. Qualitative data were gathered during individual interviews when learners were asked whether they preferred to use the strategy of working alone, or the strategy of…

This study compared the effectiveness of 3 procedures for teaching 62 elementary students with learning disabilities to identify the correct algorithm in solving addition and subtraction word problems. The group receiving strategy teaching and sequencing practice problems and the group receiving strategy teaching only scored higher than…

Tower of Hanoi has become a popular tool in cognitive and neuropsychology to assess a set of behaviors collectively referred to as executive functions. Substantial variability in performance on the Tower of Hanoi (TOH) disk-transfer task among normally functioning young adults, and potential contributions to these individual differences, were…