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National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia). – 1999
This publication reports on a forum on competency based training (CBT) research in Australia. Section 1 contains biographies of presenters and panel members. Section 2 presents an overview of the research and highlights key findings. Summaries follow of each of the five key projects. "The CBT Decade: Teaching for Flexibility and…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Developed Nations, Educational Change, Educational Research
Gray, Lois; Davis, Walter – New Directions for Experiential Learning, 1980
Labor unions and academic institutions are joining forces to reach the large population of working adults who have been left out of the mainstream of higher education. Some educational methods are described and ways to finance continuing programs are suggested. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Cooperative Education
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Tillema, H. H.; Knol, W. E. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1997
The effects of prior beliefs on student teachers' construction and utilization of new educational knowledge bases were investigated. Students participated in either conceptual change or direct instruction programs. Although conceptual change outperformed direct instruction, results suggest that conceptual change can improve performance but only…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Stavy, Ruth; Tirosh, Dina – European Journal of Teacher Education, 1996
Describes two intuitive rules underlying students' conceptions in mathematics and science that are not always compatible with usually accepted scientific ideas. The intuitive rules are: "More of A, more of B" and "Subdivision processes can always be repeated." In teacher education, it is important to raise instructors'…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
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McCoy, Leah P.; Dodl, Norman R. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1989
Describes a study that examined the effect of computer programing experience on the mathematical problem solving achievement of high school students. The variables studied are discussed, including gender, ability, socioeconomic status, prior math experience, and access to a home computer, and a path analysis model is explained. (34 references)…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Computer Assisted Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Microcomputers
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Dyck, Jennifer L.; Smither, Janan Al-Awar – Computers in Human Behavior, 1996
Describes a study that examined relationships between computer attitude, computer experience, gender, cognitive abilities, and the acquisition of word processing by older adults. Highlights include results from computer attitude questionnaires, spatial scanning, inductive and deductive reasoning as predictors of word processing knowledge, and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Computer Anxiety, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes
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Small, Ruth V.; Grabowski, Barbara L. – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1992
Describes a study that identified various individual information seeking behavior patterns and determined how users' motivation, prior knowledge, gender, and cognitive processing influenced learning and retention within a hypermedia environment for undergraduate students. Use of the Group Embedded Figures Test is described and further research is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education
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Dwyer, Francis M.; Dwyer, Carol A. – Canadian Journal of Educational Communication, 1990
Describes study of undergraduates at Pennsylvania State University that was conducted to investigate the instructional effectiveness of integrating rehearsal activity into visually complemented prose instruction. The effect of students' prior knowledge on learning is examined, and the effect of visual/verbal testing on information retrieval is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests
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Gray, John; And Others – Oxford Review of Education, 1990
Uses 11 data sets from 6 local British education authorities to examine the relationship between student performance on fifth-form examinations and school effectiveness. Presents hierarchical linear modeling to account for differences in prior attainment, gender, and social background. Finds few differences in school impact on performance. Urges…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Educational Research
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Kramp, Mary Kay; Humphreys, W. Lee – College Teaching, 1993
Two college courses, one in literary analysis and one designed to help students apply prior learning, were redesigned to incorporate time for students to tell the class about their own learning experiences. It was found that the narratives enriched faculty and students' understanding and awareness. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, College Instruction, College Students
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Lee, Seong-Soo; Lee, Y. H. K. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1991
The assumption that learners are the best judges of learning needs in computer-assisted instruction was tested by assigning 55 eleventh graders to learner-control or program-control conditions. Results indicate that efficiency of the learner-control strategy cannot be taken for granted and emphasize the importance of prior knowledge. (SLD)
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Antonacci, Patricia A. – Social Education, 1991
Explains semantic mapping as a visual representation of knowledge that is useful for understanding underlying textbook concepts. Outlines steps for constructing a conceptual map with ninth grade students to be used as an aid in reading about peoples of the Middle East. Emphasizes student participation for effective semantic mapping. Provides…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Content Area Reading, Critical Thinking, Geography Instruction
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Woodrow, Janice E. J. – Computers and Education, 1991
Describes a study of student teachers that examined determinants of achievement in a computer literacy course. Correlations with measures of computer attitudes, perceived locus of control, gender, age, and prior word processing and computer experience are discussed, and the computer literacy model on which the analysis of data was based is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Computer Literacy, Correlation
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Schank, Patrick K.; Rowe, Lawrence A. – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1993
Describes the design and evaluation of a multimedia course on integrated circuit manufacturing that was developed at the University of California at Berkeley using IC-HIP (Integrated Circuit-Hypermedia in PICASSO), a hypermedia-based instructional system. Learning effects based on prior knowledge, methods of navigation, and other factors are…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Correlation
Shein, Dina – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1999
Discusses Art Costa's 14 Intelligent Behavior Characteristics and gives examples of picture books that apply to each characteristic, including persistence, decreasing impulsivity, listening, cooperative thinking, flexibility, metacognition, accuracy and precision, sense of humor, questioning, using past knowledge, risk taking, using all senses,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Conceptual Tempo, Creativity, Curiosity
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