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Langer, Judith A. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1984
Using sixth-grade students, a study examines (1) relationships between background knowledge and passage comprehension, (2) relative usefulness of certain variations in measuring available knowledge, (3) value of a background measure as applied to a teacher-directed small group prereading language and concept organizer activity, and (4) effect of a…
Descriptors: Directed Reading Activity, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
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Anderson, Ora Sterling; Acker, Rose L. – Reading World, 1984
Replicates a 1977 study and reaches similar conclusions: specifically, that schematic interpretations have a high relationship to prior knowledge. (FL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
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Carr, Eileen M.; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1983
Concludes that sixth-grade students taught with methods that used a structured overview to activate background knowledge, the cloze procedure to develop an inferential thinking strategy, and a self-monitoring checklist to maintain the strategy increased their inferential comprehension skills as measured by both immediate and delayed transfer…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Grade 6
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Raphael, Taffy E.; McKinney, Jean – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1983
Examines the effects of a 10-week program designed to heighten fifth- and eighth-grade students' awareness of information explicitly stated in text, implied by text, and found only in the individual's knowledge base. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 5, Grade 8
Light, Daniel; Wexler, Dara H.; Heinze, Juliette – Education Development Center, Inc., 2004
The Education Development Center's Center for Children and Technology (CCT) conducted a three year study of a large-scale data reporting system, developed by the Grow Network for New York City's Department of Education. This paper presents a framework based on two years of research exploring the intersection of decision-support technologies,…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Urban Schools, Management Information Systems, Educational Technology
Yetkin, I. Elif – 2003
This study aimed to explain prospective teachers' anxiety about teaching in relation to their teaching efficacy beliefs and prior teaching experiences. Participants included 27 preservice teachers. Three instruments were used: Student Teacher Anxiety Scale (STAS), Prior Experiences in Teaching Questionnaire (PETQ), and Teachers' Sense of Efficacy…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Gereluk, Winston – 2001
This report provides information on the content and nature of labor education in Canada. Section A outlines the study's purposes to explain why labor education should be considered for prior learning assessment and recognition purposes. Section B describes the theoretical framework and methodology and explains the attempt to canvass a reasonably…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Education, Developed Nations, Educational Objectives
Steinhaus, Patricia L. – 2000
Reading research continues to identify phonemic awareness and knowledge of the alphabetic principle as key factors in the literacy acquisition process and to indicate that they greatly facilitate decoding efforts. While research indicates that phonemic awareness and alphabetic knowledge are necessary to literacy acquisition, many early childhood…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Instructional Effectiveness
Tieso, Carol L. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2002
Researchers are aware that grouping students by prior knowledge may result in moderate gains in intermediate grade students' mathematics achievement. Despite this research, many teachers continue to teach the way they were taught: one curriculum for all students regardless of students' readiness. Additionally, researchers have raised concerns…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Curriculum Development, Intermediate Grades
Shiao, Yueh-Suey – 1998
This study identifies the most common biological concepts presented in elementary science textbooks in Taiwan. The concepts focus on living things, animals, and plants in grades one through four. Three major areas of concern are: attributes of the three related concepts; development of the concepts focusing on content organization and their…
Descriptors: Biology, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Goss, Gail – 1999
Readers possess vast amounts of knowledge gained from their prior experiences and exposures. The more they are helped to use that knowledge for connecting new ideas to known subjects as they read, the better their comprehension will be. Discussions before reading have been a traditional way to activate students' schema for stories, but a new…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Instructional Innovation, Optical Data Disks, Primary Education
Giouvanakis, Thanasis; Samaras, Haido; Tarabanis, Konstantinos – 2001
Recent studies have emphasized the significant implications of multimedia for the learning process. Even those researchers who take a less enthusiastic stand do not hesitate to assent that when blended with suitable pedagogical techniques and a proper design, the combined use of multiple media for the viewing and study of educational material can…
Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Foreign Countries, Instructional Design
Travers, Nan L.; Sheckley, Barry G. – 2000
This study addressed the question: "What instructional techniques are most effective in helping students learn how to self-regulate their learning?" An integrated model based on current research in self-regulated learning (SRL) was used to explain changes in students' SRL. Five key instructional practices were identified and embedded…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College Students, Community Colleges, Feedback
Travers, Kathleen A. – 2000
This paper describes a research study that investigates the nonlinear process preservice teachers experience as they construct and reconstruct their individual teacher identities. By examining the process of preservice teachers who were re-arranging and interpreting their teacher identities within the framework of a university teacher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Prior Learning
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Beck, Isabel L.; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Reports results of measuring children's comprehension of basal reader stories that had been revised based on notions of the role of prior knowledge in comprehension and the establishment of key story content. (AEA)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Grade 3, Instructional Design
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