Describes a Northwestern University project exploring how to orchestrate distant mentoring ("telementoring") relationships between science students and workplace scientists. The goal was to develop an audience of (volunteer) scientists to offer students ongoing advice and criticism. Challenges included finding appropriate volunteers,…

Ways to encourage students to look beyond encyclopedias for doing research are suggested, including teaching students about the importance of questions and alternative resources such as people and packaged information. (CB)

Describes a prewriting activity in which students form questions about their classmates' research topics. Notes that this activity provides students with multiple questions concerning their topics, and conveys the message that they will be writing for a real audience of peers. (MM)

The Parnassus Program at an Australian school matches gifted students with mentors who guide them in conducting subject-oriented projects and help them learn research techniques and data interpretation. Students acquire specialized skills and increase self-confidence and sense of responsibility. (SK)

Describes ways laptop computers are used in two high school Advanced Placement History classes. Discusses notetaking on laptops, small group assignments via modem, cooperative-learning groups, and laptops as a research tool. (SR)

An applied clinical research course helped nursing students acquire an understanding of research and its relationship to clinical practice. The course contrasted qualitative and quantitative methods, addressed ethical issues, and involved students in interviewing older adults about health behavior. (SK)

Inquiry is an essential component of science learning. Eight case studies of students as they designed and carried out their own investigations during two projects showed that middle school students were thoughtful in designing investigations and planning procedures. Areas of weakness included failure to focus on scientific questions and to…

Discusses the thorny challenges cybercitations raise in terms of traditional documentation and knowledge-making conventions. Compares Modern Language Association and American Psychological Association documentation styles to reveal the relationship between citation style and disciplinary values and to reveal why online sources challenge those…

Describes the ethical dilemmas in publication and provides recommendations for guidelines involving publication ethics. Counselors may be confronted with a variety of ethical dilemmas such as authorship issues, student-professor research, plagiarism, and other publication problems. The American Counseling Association's "Code of Ethics and…

Presents an activity that gives elementary social studies students a chance to investigate the meanings of personal names from around the world. Uses the Global Names Table to gather from students' neighborhoods the names, meanings, backgrounds, and classifications from different cultures. Concludes the lesson with presentations and selection of…

Discusses the benefits of student-led action research, an approach that allows students to procure their own evidence. Describes students' action research in one 12th grade English class, explaining that action research provides a way to use information in an educational setting, with all students learning that their input is valued and that they…

According to a November 2004 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey, "87% of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online...and half of them say they go online every day" ("Teens Forge" 1). They prefer the Internet to traditional libraries because they consider the Internet to be easier to use, more convenient, open 24/7, and full of more…

According to researchers, the ability to engage teachers and students in the data analysis process helps them to understand the complexities involved in the task. The flexibility of the strategies used in the process are examined by analyzing the experience of student researchers and teacher researchers.

One specially important aspect of the inquiry process is helping students to find existing sources of data, including sources on the Internet. This obviously involves the essential issue of evaluating and judging the usefulness of Web sites. In this article, the author presents several Web sites which help students evaluate Web sites.

This qualitative study describes and evaluates a pedagogical procedure that allows multicultural college freshmen to devise and research topics indigenous to their communal backgrounds. The researcher wishes to ascertain whether a method delineated by an academic procedure and limited to a classroom setting can have extended social implications…