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Download full textSmith, Carl B., Ed. – 2003
The research reviewed in this topical bibliography and commentary generally pursues two lines of inquiry: what exactly information literacy is, and how educators can apply theories of information literacy to the day-to-day problems of elementary and middle-school students. The research contains a particular emphasis on the inability of current…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
McLaughlin, Barry – 1982
This monograph discusses the state of the art in child second language acquisition research. It is of particular interest to teachers, administrators, and others concerned with educating children whose first language is not English. The first chapter deals with preschool second language acquisition. It examines processes of acquiring the sound…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Child Language, Early Childhood Education
Benbow, Carolyn, Comp. – 1980
Nearly forty monographs, papers and journal articles are abstracted in this review of recent literature on instructionally effective schooling. The works, most of them published since the mid-1970s, focus on various aspects of urban, minority, and compensatory education, as well as on more general issues in elementary and secondary educational…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews
ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. – 1981
The 11 items in this annotated bibliography are entries in the ERIC system concerning studies of school effectiveness and the debate surrounding how much influence schools have over student learning. Several articles included reexamine the 1966 Coleman report, and one compares a more recent Coleman report with the earlier report. A number of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Class Size
Honan, James P. – 1981
The quality of off-campus degree programs is considered in relation to quality control models and efforts that have been used to achieve quality control, the parties responsible for quality control, the effectiveness of programs to improve the educational quality of nontraditional education, and future prospects. It is suggested that quality…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Course Evaluation
Padak, Nancy; Sapin, Connie; Baycich, Dianna – 2002
This paper reviews and synthesizes reports about family literacy programs and practices, focusing on outcomes for adult learners. Emphasis is on resources available in the ERIC database beginning in 1990. Section 1 on programs reviews sometimes conflicting definitions of family literacy and finds that a common thread is strengthening…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
