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This book is about the experiences of students in institutions of higher education from 'non-traditional' backgrounds with contributions from the UK, the USA and Australia which reveal that the issues surrounding the inclusion of 'non-traditional' students are broadly similar in different countries
Topics: Educational strategies & policy, Sociology
The six sigma methods barriers, features, and weaknesses will allow the organization to support its strategic directions and increase the need for coaching supervision and training. It creates appropriate opportunities for the implementation of six Sigma for educational strategies. This article reflects the evolutionary review of the advantages and challenges of the six sigma project and recognizes the influential elements of the successful approach in educational institutions. This paper aims...
Topics: Six Sigma, Educational Strategies, Management, Organisational Culture
The role of errors in education must be re-examined to allow teachers to exploit fully the educational potential of the error. Student errors have been used as tools to study the learning process and to plan teaching materials. A new metaphor for error making, that of "getting lost," can help uncover some limitations in the current educational use of errors. Developing this metaphor in a generative spirit shows the importance of the context in which the error occurs. Under some...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Strategies, Learning Processes, Metaphors
This bibliography (partially annotated) lists 206 magazine articles, films, books, and pamphlets on individualizing instruction. Two sections pertain specifically to individualized instruction in various subject areas and to tactics and strategies for individualizing instruction--nongrading and continuous progress; grouping, flexible scheduling, and team teaching; and computer-assisted and programed instruction. (LP)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Educational Strategies, Individualized...
The Centre for Educational Research and Innovation of the Organisation for Economic and Cooperative Development (OECD) has as one of its priority activities the exploration for new strategies for equality of educational opportunity as part of the process of educational growth in the highly industrialized and technological societies of the OECD area. This activity is composed of an experimental and an analytical wing; this document discusses the latter. The analytical wing is concerned with the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Opportunities, Educational Strategies, Equal Education, Lifelong Learning
This document is a compilation of 163 English-language abstracts concerning various aspects of education in Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Thailand, UAR, U.S., USSR, and Yugoslavia. The abstracts are informative in nature and are approximately 1,500 words long each. They are based on documents submitted by each nation to the International Bureau of Education as representative of their best and most...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Educational...
This report addresses how the influence of cognitive science is developing and what future directions it may take as a theory of instruction. The discussion of the recurrent findings and the prevalent themes emerging in cognitive science includes: limited-capacity learners; the role of prior knowledge in learning--schema theories of reading and problem solving; learning as coherence-building; learning as theory change; learning as invention-sensible constructions on limited data; and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies, Educational Theories, Epistemology,...
Except for Timothy Hodges and James Harter's restrained research summary, the feature articles in this issue are evangelical in their praise of strengths-based education. It is, they assure us, a major innovation. English teacher Alexis Onishi writes that StrengthsQuest, a specific strengths-based approach, will have "a lifelong impact on how [students] see themselves, others, and life in general." Principal Kathryn Norwood similarly describes the related Clifton StrengthsFinder as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Strategies, Progressive Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices,...
The results of a study conducted by the National Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc., (NCRY) to demonstrate the feasibility of a Youth Tutoring Youth program (designed to put 14- to 15-year-old disadvantaged underachievers to work as paid tutors of similar elementary school children) for possible implementation as a project of the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) are the subject of this final report. Opening sections describe the philosophy of the tutoring program, emphasizing its several...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cross Age Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Strategies, Program Evaluation,...
The International Bureau of Education (IBE) is an academic institute directed toward empowering educational activities in the field. Since 1969, the IBE has been an integral part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), while retaining wide intellectual and functional autonomy. In 1999, the IBE became the UNESCO institute responsible for educational contents, methods, and teaching/learning strategies through curriculum development. Currently, the IBE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Strategies, Equal Education,...
Combining preventative operations and maintenance (O&M) with strategic retrofitting of building systems improves a school's energy performance. For schools with limited resources and experience, "quick wins" in O&M and retrofitting provide a valuable starting point to energy management. As a next step, strategically prioritizing long- and short-term measures produces overall returns on investment. This paper offers energy-efficient tips for retrofitting, operating, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Energy Conservation, Energy Management, Building Conversion, Educational Facilities...
The human brain is lateralized, different functions being housed in each hemisphere. Several assumptions which are mistakenly considered fact by researchers include: (1) the left hemisphere is for rational functions, while the right is for intuitive functions; (2) the hemispheres do not interact as well with each other as they should; (3) the use of one hemisphere tends to depress the use of the other until one can become dominant; and (4) hemispheric dominance is probably a cultural...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies, Lateral Dominance,...
The discussion of the nursing education module consists of three sections. Section 1 provides a kick-off speech for a workshop on modules for nursing educators. The text of the kick-off address is given, supplemented by applications to be suggested during the workshop. Section 2 contains an outline of the explanations, illustrations, anecdotes, and diagrams used to explain the module, correlated by matching paragraph number to Section 1. Its purpose is to provide more details for the ideas...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Strategies, Medical Education, Nursing, Nursing Education, Teacher...
The current status of career education combines continued interest and enthusiasm with problems and shortcomings relating to implementation, quantity and quality of programs, attitudes, and the need for collaboration. Four major attitudinal problems currently face career education. The problem of costs arises from those who think anything inexpensive is not worthwhile and from those who expect major educational change to be accompanied by massive Federal support. The problem of control is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Educational Attitudes, Educational Problems, Educational...
This paper reviews research studies concerning the effectiveness of varying strategies for teaching questioning skills and groups them into the following organizational scheme: (a) study of question classification systems as a strategy for teaching questioning skills, (b) use of laboratory experiences as a strategy for teaching questioning skills, (c) materials designed to teach questioning skills, (d) impact of feedback strategies on teaching questioning skills, and (e) miscellaneous inservice...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Strategies, Questioning Techniques, Research Reviews (Publications),...
Findings from a single research study can tell a lot, but a meta-analysis of findings from a number of studies can tell even more. In "A Theory-Based Meta-Analysis of Research on Instruction," Robert J. Marzano analyzed the results of more than 100 research reports on instruction, involving more than 1.2 million subjects. The goal of the analysis was to identify those instructional strategies that have a high probability of enhancing student achievement for all students in all subject...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Probability, Educational Strategies, Academic Achievement, Brabec, Kathy|Fisher,...
A presentation is a way of communicating information to an audience. A presentation can be a speech, a panel discussion, a debate, a skit, a display, a demonstration, or even a dramatic or musical performance. For example, by telling the audience about particular crime prevention techniques or subjects, the presenter equips them with the tools to lead safer lives. This bulletin provides step-by-step techniques and proven methods of planning and conducting an effective presentation that will...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audience Awareness, Communication Skills, Crime Prevention, Educational Strategies,...
A recent paper written by a research team at the FPG Child Development Institute, "Recognition and Response: An Early Intervening System for Young Children at Risk for Learning Disabilities," discusses a new systematic approach that can help early educators and parents ensure early school success for all children, including those at risk for learning difficulties. The proposed Recognition and Response system was recently endorsed by the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Learning Problems, Young Children, Child Development, Learning Disabilities, Early...
C. M. Lindvall's introduction to the IPI project is based--as is the project itself--on Robert Glaser's National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) Yearbook chapter entitled 'The Design of Instruction'. The project concerns itself with identifying the proposed student terminal behaviors and structuring them into some meaningful total curriculum; diagnosing the student's preinstructional behavior; developing and evaluating sequential objectives in the carrying out of the instructional...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavioral Objectives, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Strategies, Identification,...
This program strategy in education, revising and updating the earlier version of June 1971, focuses on strategic aims, plans and efforts in four areas concerning education and human resources. Emphasis is upon specific strategies for the four priority problem areas covering educational technology, non-formal education, educational finance and human resources. For each area information is included on the problem statement, development potentials, strengthening capabilities of the United States...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developing Nations, Educational Economics, Educational Strategies, Educational...
THIS THEORETICAL PAPER COMBINES FAMILIAR PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES IN A NEW SYSTEM DESIGNED MAINLY FOR PARSIMONY. PRINCIPAL CONSTRUCTS ARE REPRESENTATION, (R) A UNIT OF COGNITIVE ACTIVITY, AND M-VALUE, (M) A MOTIVATIONAL OR HEDONIC DIMENSION, OR THE PLEASANTNESS OF THE ACTIVITY OF AN R. A PROBABILITY-DECISION MODEL RELATES R'S AND THEIR AVERAGE M-VALUES. THE THEORY IMPLIES THAT MANY REPEATED ENCOUNTERS WITH ABOUT THE SAME SITUATION ALLOW R'S TO BE MORE PREDICTABLE, WITH DEVELOPMENT OF SMOOTH...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Processes, Educational Strategies, Learning Motivation, Learning Theories,...
One of the most promising and robust strategies used by the Teacher Practice Networks is blended learning, which combines face-to-face and online professional learning to provide teachers with multiple opportunities for interaction and engagement. This issue of "CenterView "describes the blended professional learning model, what it looks like in action, and steps to take to develop effective blended learning offerings. [This issue is part of a series on the Teacher Practice Networks...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Blended Learning, Educational Strategies, Professional Education, Teaching...
The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement's January 2007 newsletter, "A Teacher's Guide to Differentiating Instruction," [ED495740] summarized the following four planning stages teachers can use to effectively differentiate instruction: (1) A thorough understanding of content; (2) Use of preassessments and regular formative assessments; (3) Use of curricular materials and instructional strategies that meet the diverse needs of students; and (4) Use of summative...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Individualized Instruction, Educational Strategies, Newsletters, Formative...
Choosing the near equivalence for translator is of great concern nowadays. While it seems more commitment has been given to this issue, yet there are still rooms for more attention to innovative methods of Translation Studies in this direction. The idea of wafting procedure in Intermediacy model of translation comes from a book by Alireza Akbari (2011) in which he states completely how to choose the right equivalence in every situation. This research is an attempt to ascertain whether wafting...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Translation, Models, English, German, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Skills, Educational...
As one considers the possibility of an instructional balance, it is evident that the topic of standards and creativity offers two opposite spectrums of thinking. When determining how to equalize standards and creativity, it is essential to examine each component in relation to the needs of gifted learners. In this article, the author examines how to integrate creativity in a standards-based system and discusses the benefits of balancing standards and creativity. The author also describes three...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Behavior, Educational Strategies, Creativity, Gifted, Educational...
For tens of thousands of years human beings relied on oracles, prophets, medicine men, and resignation to try to manage unknown risks. Then, in the transformative 200-year period from the mid-17th through the mid-19th centuries, a series of brilliant insights created groundbreaking tools for rational risk taking. Discoveries such as the theory of probability, the law of large numbers, the structure of the normal distribution, standard deviation, and Bayes's theorem transformed our understanding...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Risk Students, Risk Management, Risk, Educational Policy, Educational...
In the author's role as a teacher trainer, her goal is for future teachers of the deaf to have a more solid foundation. From her own personal teaching experiences, in her observations of effective reading teachers, and with support from current literature, the author has compiled a list of strategies that will help teachers using a bimodal bilingual approach to reading instruction. Tips for American Sign Language (ASL)/English bilingual classrooms are presented.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reading Instruction, American Sign Language, English, Bilingual Education, Deafness,...
Many factors influence students' growth and development. Nugent (2000) stated that the perfectionist attitude is established in childhood and suggested that identification of perfectionistic traits and recognition of problem areas is a first step to finding an alternative to the all or nothing attitude of many gifted students. Awareness of maladaptive perfectionism and origins of influence would be helpful to students, parents, and teachers in addressing the problem and discovering alternate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted, Individual Development, Educational...
There is a great need for instructional materials which are useful in the professional preparation of teachers, particularly materials to fit a multi-media learning environment. It is helpful to distinguish between such materials and the ways in which they can be used and the various educational purposes thereby served. The procedures or formats used in staff development programs can be called "protocols"--the way things are done, the step-by-step process by which the goals of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Needs, Educational Strategies, Information Needs, Library Networks,...
This paper is concerned with the clarification and resolution of two basic defects of curricular and instructional research: vagueness as to what is being undertaken, and inattention to the logical aspects of evaluation. It introduces the concepts of curricular claim and instructional claim, clarifies the function and import of curricular claims, and sets forth the principles of curricular claim validation. The implications of these concepts and principles for both curricular and instructional...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research, Educational Research, Educational...
The purpose of this report is to document the development of the McREL Approach for those interested in school improvement. This document builds upon an earlier intensive site report (McIver & Dean, 2004) and the preliminary McREL Approach report (Dean, 2004). The first section describes the McREL Approach framework, which includes six stages for assisting sites in acquiring the knowledge and skills they need to lead school improvement and sustain their improvement efforts for the long...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Improvement, Educational Strategies, Low Achievement, Strategic Planning,...
This resource guide of annotated references on traumatic brain injury (TBI) was created to help educators locate information from such disciplines as neurology, neuropsychology, rehabilitation, and pediatric medicine. Twenty-four resources published from 1990 to 1994 are listed, with annotations. The resources include research reports/reviews, edited books, conference presentations, textbooks, and journal articles. A conclusion points out that the integration of the medical, rehabilitation, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Head Injuries, Intervention,...
In 1969, the author proposed that a teaching team should consist of a horizontally differentiated staff with team members trained in four distinct skill areas: 1) instructional design, 2) instructional interaction, 3) interpersonal design, and 4) interpersonal interaction. The present paper proposes, in addition, a vertically differentiated staff for the new profession of instructional design. There would be three levels: 1) instructional technicians (teacher level), with teachers trained to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavioral Sciences, Differentiated Staffs, Educational Strategies, Instructional...
Twenty-one hypothesized components of effective teaching were examined and three to four basic attributes for each were stated as instructional strategies for teaching mildly handicapped students. Approximately 40 regular and special educators reviewed the strategies and their validations were used to develop the Assessment Inventory of Instructional Strategies (AIIS). The teacher then completes the form, rating the effect of each strategy on the student's learning. Listing the positive...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness,...
THE PROGRAM DEVELOPED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND IN COOPERATION WITH THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM IS DESCRIBED. IT IS AN ATTEMPT TO PUT EDUCATIONAL THEORY INTO OPERATION. IT FOCUSES ON AN EXPERIMENTAL-LABORATORY-FOR-PEOPLE CONCEPT AND EMPHASIZES THE INDIVIDUAL'S ROLE IN THE LEARNING PROCESS. IT HAS PUT THE PROCESS OF SELF-EDUCATION AHEAD OF TEACHING-AS-TELLING TO THE EXTENT THAT THE PROCESS OF OBTAINING THE ANSWER IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE ANSWER. THE SEVENTH GRADE PROGRAM HAS AN...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Strategies, Industrial Arts, Industry, Junior High Schools, Program...
Intellectual property rights restrict teachers' and students' ability to freely explore the intellectual realms of the classroom. Copyright laws protect the author and their work but disable other intellectuals from investigating probable learning environments. This paper will look at key issues where educational institutions are conflicting with intellectual property rights. Also included will be guidelines for teachers and fair use for their classroom in the "Best Practices in Fair...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Copyrights, Media Literacy, Guidelines, Best Practices, Compliance (Legal),...
COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATIONAL PLANNING HAS FOUR MAJOR PARTS. THE FIRST, POLICY AND GOAL SETTING, RELATES TO THE DETERMINATION OF GOALS, POLICIES, AND OBJECTIVES WHICH GUIDE HIGHER EDUCATION SERVICES. QUALITY AND PATTERN OF SERVICES, RELATIONSHIP OF EDUCATION TO SOCIETY, DETERMINATION OF THOSE TO BE SERVED, AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF POST HIGH SCHOOL SERVICES TO THE LARGER SOCIETY ARE FACTORS CONSIDERED. ALTHOUGH POLICY SETTING AUTHORITY RESIDES IN THE GOVERNOR AND THE LEGISLATURE, IN ACTUAL PRACTICE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Facilities, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives, Educational...
Knowledge of the environment has grown to such an extent that information technology (IT) is essential to make sense of the available data. An example of this is remote sensing by satellite. In recent years this field has grown in importance and remote sensing is used for a range of uses including the automatic survey of wheat yields in North America, the examination of the rain forests in South America, the observance of extension measures in Europe, and the examination of land use in Germany....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Strategies, Environmental Education, Higher Education, Information...
This booklet explains the background, rationale, and issues addressed in the NCTM Curriculum and Evaluation Standards. A detailed vignette of a classroom lesson is presented as an example of what is envisioned for the future. A comparison of the differences between the reform urged by the Standards and the efforts of the "New Math" movement is described. Some issues discussed include: (1) the emphasis on problem solving and reasoning; (2) the importance of making connections between...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Strategies, Mathematics Education, National...
This study examined the theory asserting that partitioning a unit is basic in developing understanding of the different rational number constructs. A fraction sequence was developed in which early experiences with partitioning units were provided. An alternative fraction sequence was designed to include initial activities with pattern blocks in which fractional parts of a region are covered by blocks instead of drawing lines or splitting sets. Both fraction sequences were taught for 2 weeks in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Strategies, Fractions, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Mathematical...
Research on learning-to-learn and some proposals made concerning its teaching are reviewed. Focus is on what needs to be achieved to show that learning-to-learn has occurred. Actual achievement is part of the answer, but the measurement of learning ability must occur independently of the assessment of prior knowledge. Intellectual capacities and situational and motivational factors have a bearing on learning-to-learn, but most research has focused on learning strategies. Differing methods...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Educational Strategies, Learning...
The purpose of this study is to provide pedagogical strategies for serving twice-exceptional students in regular classrooms in the United States. Specific discussion of definition, identification and characteristics of gifted and talented students with learning disabilities, current outlook of differentiating for gifted learners in the regular classroom in the United States are provided. Finally, pedagogical strategies that address the specific learning need for facilitating the use of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Lu, Yuying, Gifted Disabled, Individualized Instruction, Educational...
Skills of inference are needed not just to be able to "read between the lines," to detect the unspoken hidden meanings that enrich overall understanding of a text or to draw one's own personal conclusions about a text. They are needed for all the other tasks that teachers want their children to do in handling texts: to understand the effects achieved through choices in vocabulary, to recognize what the writer is trying to accomplish through the whole text and to appreciate what the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Effectiveness, Reading Skills, Inferences, Students, Literature Reviews,...
The purpose of this paper is to present a model for developing a comprehensive system of education for gifted learners in Lebanon. The model consists of three phases and includes key elements for establishing gifted education in the country, such as raising community awareness, adopting valid identification measures, and developing effective curricula. An important consideration is to embed the model in non-traditional views of intelligence and giftedness so that programs are diversified and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Gifted, Standardized Tests, Identification, Foreign Countries, Models, Scores,...
Reusable learning objects are an approach that is receiving a significant amount of attention in distance-based and online education (see Reports # 11, 40, and 46 in this series). They have the potential to provide cost-effective, personalised instruction with a short development time. Instructional design principles, however, must play an important part in any such development effort, within a design process that occurs on two levels. At the higher level, instruction must be designed to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Instructional Design, Distance Education, Evaluation, Metadata, Educational...
Results of the Cognitive Holding Power Questionnaire completed by 480 Australian technology education students suggest that design-based technology classes develop higher-order thinking skills. Teachers are attempting to balance support with student autonomy and control while shifting to learner-centered instruction. However, they may be emphasizing doing over thinking and planning. (Contains 39 references.) (SK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Change, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Secondary Education,...
This study compared the effects of several presentation sequences on lesson performance to deterimine whether sequence has a significant effect on performance in computer-based instruction, and whether using the same sequence consistently is more effective than not being consistent. Thirty-six students from the Basic Electricity and Electronics School, Service School Command, San Diego, were randomly assigned to one of four groups differing by the instructional presentation sequence used. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Strategies,...
Reported is a study related to effective teaching strategies for science instruction in northern Manitoba schools, which considered the importance of recognizing the culture and environment in which instruction takes place. The study described postulated that certain teaching strategies, when used for science instruction with native children, will maximize both achievement and attitude toward science instruction. Sixteen student teachers were participants in the study and the students consisted...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education,...
There is a tendency to simply view alternative schools as against tests, grades, bells, seats in rows, and dress regulations. This obscures the need for alternative schools to have stable organizational structures if they are to play an important role in education. There are five stages in the development of an alternative school. They include (a) determining the appropriateness of an alternative school in the particular school system; (b) school board commitment to a formal planning process;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Innovation, Educational Planning, Educational Strategies, Experimental...
This monograph addresses topical issues in training, service delivery, and research for minorities in communication disorders. It presents extended versions of papers that were delivered at the conference, "Concerns for Minority Groups in Communication Disorders," held in Nashville, Tennessee on September 17-19, 1984. Papers include: "The First Thomas E. Poag Memorial Lecture" (S. Allen Counter); "Valid Predictors of Minority Student Success" (Harold Powell);...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Disorders, Cultural Differences, Delivery Systems, Educational...
