This paper discusses Multi-Feature Hierarchical Sequential Pattern Mining, MFH-SPAM, a novel algorithm that efficiently extracts patterns from students' learning activity sequences. This algorithm extends an existing sequential pattern mining algorithm by dynamically selecting the level of specificity for hierarchically-defined features…

Find out how to use photographic images to support the conceptual development of proportional thinking. This paper provides insight into a sequenced activity that promotes student engagement and makes links to familiar and unfamiliar contexts.

This article promotes the use of mathematically appropriate, engaging and challenging tasks to support learning that is worthwhile. The authors share insights from a three-lesson design experiment and the three tasks along with the results from their implementation are explored.

This report summarizes recommendations from NCTM, NRC, CCSSM, NMAP, and IES to guide early numeracy instruction for elementary age students in general and special education classroom settings. We highlight common threads among general and special education research recommendations and provide a numeracy intervention curriculum model connecting…

Practitioner concerns and the changing educational marketplace are pressuring colleges to provide more skills based learning. Among the newer skill based areas of study that is greatly in demand is professional sales. In this paper, two courses in a successful professional sales program are examined through the lenses of experiential learning…

Prompted by the need for leaders able to turn around chronically low-performing schools, states, universities, education groups, and school districts in the US have initiated a variety of principal development programs. Some programs focus on enhancing the skills of experienced administrators, while others target talented teachers and even…

Learning packages allow students to cook up their own educational recipes without having to stew about deadlines. (RA)

This article presents activities in rhythm and motor development to precede music reading instruction, then outlines a six-stage sequence for teaching the principles of music notation to beginning instrumentalists. (Author/SJL)

Woodworking experiences based on a task analysis approach can be motivating instructional experiences for preschool handicapped children. The article presents sequentially ordered hammering and sawing skills adaptations for specific disability groups. (CL)

Speech presented at the 54th annual NASSP Convention. (EJS)

Presents a developmental approach to teaching programing at all educational levels which stresses concepts rather than syntax; provides motivation, relevant examples, and activities; proceeds from concrete to pictorial to abstract according to age and experience of learners; and utilizes increasingly complex activities building upon and extending…

Translating social studies objectives into learnable tasks for students in the classroom involves understanding what a learning activity is, and that different types of learning activities serve different functions. An example of a learning activity sequence which includes four catagories of activities--intake, organizational, demonstrative, and…

Sequencing is essential to survival in the real world and in the content-subject school world. It is also the hidden agenda in many content-area classrooms. If students are to improve their sequencing ability, teachers must become aware of the hidden, sequencing requirements in their curriculum. Describes some simple exercises for helping students…

To make his instruction more interesting, a teacher decided to use popular television programs as the basis for some sequencing games. His students not only responded to this refreshing variation but also showed a firmer grasp of a necessary skill. (Author/RK)

A look at how developing countries, specifically Korea, are beginning to look to educational technology as a partial solution to their educational problems. (Author)