The science teachers at New Hampshire's Concord High School are no longer satisfied with what Wiggins and McTighe call the "teach, test, and hope for the best" learning cycle (2005). These teachers have been stepping up to the professional responsibility that demands more of them and their students--the responsibility to teach for…

As a result of their own sometimes frustrating educational experiences, and a growing discontent with their current teaching methods, the authors, in conjunction with another instructor, decided to try an experiment. With the goal of enhancing visualization and understanding, the instructors created several multi-path educational paths for the…

The aim of the work presented here was to devise an activity associated with factors affecting boiling points. The intervention used a four-step constructivist-based teaching strategy, which was subsequently evaluated by a cohort of students. Data collection consisted of application of a purpose designed questionnaire consisting of four open-ended…

Student Response Technology (SRT) involves the use of hand-held remotes by students during classroom lectures to electronically respond to questions. This study surveyed 350 students enrolled in one of 13 lower-division university science classes taught by five different instructors who used SRT. The survey probed students' perceptions of SRT in…

This paper examined the responses of second and third year engineering students in the University of Melbourne to a number of open-ended exercises which tap problem-solving skills in engineering design. (Editor/RK)

Author tackled the problems that children have in understanding Shakespeares plays. (RK)

Defined a system developed to help the student absorb basic course concepts. (Author/RK)

The present training study sought to determine if specific experimental procedures in paradigmatic language would cause differences in reading readiness test achievement among experimental, placebo, and control groups of beginning first-grade pupils. (Editor)

Author commented on her experiences in bringing poetry to schools. (Editor/RK)

Address at the meeting of the Eastern Association of College Deans and Advisers of Students in Atlantic City, December, 1967.

AN EVALUATIVE STUDY OF STAFF UTILIZATION PATTERNS WAS UNDERTAKEN WITH FOUR MAJOR GOALS--TO MEASURE STUDENT PROGRESS UNDER VARIOUS TEAM PATTERNS, TO DETERMINE STUDENT AND TEACHER REACTION TO NEW DESIGNS AND PARTICULAR ASPECTS OF TEAM TEACHING, TO ESTABLISH CRITERIA FOR MORE DEFINITIVE EVALUATIVE PROCEDURES, AND TO ESTABLISH STRONGER, MORE WORKABLE…

The few available studies of seminary student values fail to (1) represent values of the US seminary student population as a whole, (2) examine relationships between values and other relevant variables, (3) collect data about a wide range of value commitments, and (4) lend themselves to duplication for purposes of studying value shifts through…