This document contains the proceedings from a "Math and Science for Girls" symposium. The conference was aimed at identifying teaching strategies that are particularly effective for girls. The book is divided into three parts: research reports, small group workshops, and miscellaneous items. The research reports are "Women in Science: Where Do We…

The aim of the study (Johnsen Hoines 2002) reported here was to shed light on the process through which student teachers express and interpret their understandings about mathematical notions and thereby gain insight into them. This paper focuses on how students cooperate and move between different ways of understandings. It emphases in particular…

In September 1998, the Math Science Education National Board held a convocation on middle grades mathematics that was co-sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the National Middle School Association (NMSA), and the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The convocation was structured to present the teaching…

These collected papers are a record of the proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia entitled, "Shaping the Future of Mathematics Education." The conference is held in Fremantle, as was the previous conference a decade earlier. Keynote speakers are discussing issues that are emerging more…

E-learning in the European Higher Education Area has stampeded its way to the foreground of the Quality Assurance (QA) forum, and has become a key issue among quality assurance agencies and institutions in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Because internet-based learning is currently such a relevant topic, there is a dire need for the…

For the thirty-fourth year, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Jacksonville, FL. A limited quantity of these Proceedings were printed and sold in both hardcopy and electronic…

This report is a product of an European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) Workshop "Assessing educational quality: Knowledge production and the role of experts" hosted by the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT) in Oslo in February, 2008. The workshop gathered representatives from higher…

This paper provides a transcript of a videotaped roundtable discussion on learning disabilities among people in adult literacy programs in Canada. Panelists discussed several definitions of learning disabilities, such as processing difficulties, physical difficulties, and receptive difficulties. They debated the usefulness of labeling persons with…

The second annual Affiliates' meeting of the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching brought together 200 people to examine authentic teaching and assessment practices and policies. Nine presentations from the meeting are compiled in this document, illustrating different approaches to developing alternative assessment…

This report contains papers presented at the 2004 annual NCES Summer Data Conference. Discussions and presentations dealt with such topics as measuring school efficiency, analyzing the return on education investment, calculating education costs per student, and assessing the financial condition of school districts. The following papers are…

This document is a compilation of the presentations made at the Conference on Magnet Schools for Desegregation held in the Fall of 1977. It provides an overview of many types of magnet school programs and their degree of success. Presentations include a paper on the Federal government and magnet schools; some promises and cautions regarding magnet…

This publication is a compilation of keynote addresses and workshop presentations given at a national conference on the Child Development Associate (CDA) program held in conjunction with the 1979 annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). The document is divided into eleven sections. Each section…

This paper is chapter 4 of the proceedings of the National Working Conference on Emerging Issues in Environmental Education. It concerns a survey sent to 300 U. S. environmental educators to determine their attitudes toward nine previously identified emerging issues in environmental education. The survey was sent before the conference to working…

Included in this publication are abstracts of papers presented at a meeting on science teaching. Also included are: an index of authors and the sessions in which they presented papers, a strand index listing sessions that pertain to that strand, and an address list of all the authors. Strands include alternative assessment; approaches to research;…

There are many approaches to studying the classroom environment. This publication is a collection of papers presented at the fourth Research Seminar and Workshop at the Western Australian Institute of Technology on educational research in the classroom. The four papers contained in this document describe various approaches and perspectives to…