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Download full textBirckbichler, Diane W.; Omaggio, Alice C. – Modern Language Journal, 1978
Various sources of learner problems are identified and specific remedial activities are suggested for difficulties in speaking, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary acquisition, and grammar tasks. Some of the more common sources of learner difficulties that are discussed are: poor memory, lack of flexibility, too impulsive, too reflective,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Diagnosis
Schrader, William B., Ed. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1979
This conference was organized around four policy concerns: (1) the needs of handicapped, gifted, and bilingual students; (2) the use of test results to allocate federal compensatory education funds; (3) the validity of minimum competency testing; and (4) the demand for increasingly sophisticated evaluations. Garry L. McDaniels discussed the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Accountability, Bilingual Students, Compensatory Education
Leamer, Laurence E.; And Others – 1977
First in a series which offers educational resources and teaching techniques related to major social issues to high school social studies classroom teachers, the guide focuses on political and economic aspects of health care in the United States. The document is presented in four major chapters. Chapter I explores how economic and political…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Decision Making, Economics Education, Educational Objectives
Lopez, M. Elena, Ed. – The Evaluation Exchange, 2002., 2002
This document is comprised of the three 2002 issues of a newsletter of the Harvard Family Research Project, designed to share new ideas and experiences in evaluating systems reform and comprehensive child and family services. The Spring issue focuses on family support evaluations and their role in advancing the field of family support and includes…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, Child Welfare, Community Programs
Training Ideas, 1984
This document contains three issues of "Training Ideas," a bimonthly publication of instructional materials and articles dealing with human resource development. The premiere issue (1984) includes the following articles: "Information Retrieval: Finding That Lost Article" by Patrick Suessmuth; "Increasing Learning in Printed Materials through the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction
Speaking Freely, 1983
This report contains a condensation and highlights of public hearings held by the Illinois State Advisory Council on Adult, Vocational and Technical Education (SACVE) and the Illinois Employment and Training Council (IETC) on the subject of improving education to prepare youth for employment. During the hearings on this topic, 100 witnesses…
Descriptors: Career Education, Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship, Educational Improvement
Peer reviewedCampanella, Alfred J., Ed. – Social Education, 1983
A compilation of 13 social studies activities suitable for immediate application in the classroom includes teaching ideas for both elementary and secondary teachers. Activities comprise a simulated mapping expedition to Jamestown colony; a folktale illustration of moral dilemmas; taped interviews with Soviet citizens; simulated employment…
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Conflict Resolution, Cross Cultural Studies, Current Events
Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 1984
The four 1984 numbers of the journal contain articles on the following topics: reading and visual imagery; script preparation for accelerative learning and teaching; guided relaxation and baroque music's effects on student test performance; imagery in the creative process; suggestopedia in English as a second language (ESL) instruction;…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Adult Learning, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques
Mohrman, Kathryn, Ed. – 1980
Curricular development in undergraduate programs in the biological, physical, and mathematical sciences at a number of colleges and universities are described. One common theme is the continuing interest in computers in higher education. As the student bodies of many campuses become more heterogeneous with increasing enrollments of minorities and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Allied Health Occupations Education, Astronomy, Calculus
Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas, London (England). – 1978
The following articles and reports are presented in this publication of "Overseas Universities:""Appropriate Technology and University Education," by John Twidell; "The Training of Engineering Staff for Higher Education Institutions in Developing Countries," by D. W. Daniel, C. A. Leal, J. H. Maynes and T. Wilmore;…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Administration, College Faculty, College Planning
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Direct linkObiakor, Festus E., Ed.; Utley, Cheryl A., Ed. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2002
This issue of "Multiple Voices" contains the following articles: (1) "A Self-Study of Diversity: Preservice Teachers' Beliefs Revealed through Classroom Practices" (Donna M. Sobel and others), which presents the results of seven preservice teachers' self-study that reveals ways in which the teachers' beliefs regarding diversity issues were…
Descriptors: American Indians, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Bilingual Education, Blacks
Redmann, Donna, Ed. – Louisiana Business Education Journal, 1994
This annual journal contains nine articles dealing with business education in Louisiana and elsewhere. The articles "Word Processing Competencies: Which Ones Are Really Necessary?" (Patricia Lynn Anderson, Mary Alice Griffin) and "English Basics Were Developed in Shorthand--Why Not in Keyboarding?" (Clora Mae Baker, Marcia A.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Business Communication, Business Education, Business Skills
Lipsitt, Lewis P., Ed. – Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, 1996
These 12 monthly newsletters from 1996 explore the many problems encountered by children and adolescents as they grow up. Regular departments in the newsletter issues include "Keep Your Eye On...," which briefly presents results of research into childhood and adolescent problems; "What's New in Research," summarizing research…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Asperger Syndrome
Brown, Peggy, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1982
Approaches used by colleges and universities to implement values clarification and inquiry, moral education and development, and normative and applied ethics into the curriculum are examined, along with the way that the schools are defining values education in terms of their own students and mission. In "Values in the Curriculum," Edward…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges, College Curriculum, College Role
Fisher, Maurice D., Ed. – Gifted Education Press Quarterly, 1995
This document consists of the four issues of the newsletter "Gifted Education Press Quarterly" published during 1995. This newsletter addresses issues in the education of gifted children and youth. The major articles are: (1) "Using Today's Technology: Parents Can Help Challenge Gifted Children" (Adrienne O'Neill); (2)…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Black Students, Creative Thinking
