Teaching in higher education increasingly requires greater accountability, the utilization of contemporary learner-focused teaching models, and transparent grading methods for nonstandardized learning products. This article describes learner-centered evaluation and assessment strategies and illustrates how these approaches emphasize learners'…

Many members of the academy have tried to broaden the construct of scholarship to include activities that investigate pedagogy and student learning, the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Halpern et al. (1998) first established such a definition for the field of psychology. This article reports on a Society for the Teaching of Psychology…

The "Multiple Intelligences, Curriculum and Assessment Project" at University College Cork was a collaborative project carried out between 1995 and 1999. The key research question focused on whether Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences could be applied to, and enhance, aspects of curriculum and assessment at primary and…

Every school teacher has access to one of the greatest resources in existence; the simple, unfeigned enthusiasm of youngsters. The challenge is how to make constructive use of that enthusiasm. For music teachers, the situation is particularly tricky. Rhythms and melodies, their daily stock in trade, are inherently engaging to most young people,…

Dr. Sally Knipe, Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Education (Middle Schooling) at Charles Sturt University has been teaching undergraduate students in this program for six years. When Charles Sturt University introduced a learning management system, Interact she, with the faculty's educational designer, Miriam Edwards worked together in developing…

This paper details a successful and inexpensive implementation of a remote laboratory into a distance control systems course using readily available hardware and software. The physical experiment consists of a beach ball and a dc blower; the control objective is to make the height of the aerodynamically levitated beach ball track a reference…

This paper presents a new environment for teaching practical work in AI subjects. The main purpose of this environment is to make AI techniques more appealing to students and to facilitate the use of the toolkits which are currently widely used in research and development. This new environment has a toolkit for developing and executing agents,…

There is need to reform teacher education programs through the creation of active learning environments that support and improve the depth and scope of student learning. Specifically, teachers should provide intellectually powerful, learner-centered, and technology-rich environments for students without undermining sound pedagogical practices.…

In this paper we shall first try to define the term "China English" (with our own definition of this term deliberated in the "Discussion" section) as a performance variety in the larger conceptualization of World Englishes. Following that, we will adduce some linguistic features of "China English" from the relevant…

This article presents the contents of a mini-course designed by a teacher to make a review of grammar interesting and stimulating for students. The 75 questions listed for use in the review cover numerous grammatical rules in a lighthearted, humorous, and informative way. (EB)

The history and teachings of the Chinese philsospher Confucius are reviewed and related to modern American education. (MD)

This book comprehensively reviews teaching-learning models that can be used in the development and implementation of a curriculum for gifted students. The second edition reflects the many changes that have occurred in gifted education. The field of gifted education has seen new program models developed, more research accomplished, and new…

An attempt to apply a theoretical model of behavior to an analysis of teaching styles (nomothetic, idiographic, and transactional) of adult basic education instuctors concludes that the Gentzels-Thelen model provides an adequate tool; that illiterate adult students appreciate having their interests acknowledged, yet expect that teachers will be…

An effective mathematics teacher is one whose teaching techniques motivate his students to like what they are learning. (CK)