Analysis of the University of Glamorgan's electronic learning module on employability and professional development demonstrates the feasibility of teaching transferable, "soft" skills online. Advantages compared with face-to-face include transparency, flexibility, development of information technology skills, openness, and teamwork;…

Reports schoolwide social skills assessment and training model including two-gate student identification procedure (in-class social skills training for all students and small group intensive training for at-risk target students). Model is directed at reducing future serious problems by addressing identified difficulties early. Notes that of…

Considers the prospects and need for a psychologically plausible connectionist model of the development of word recognition skills. Emphasizes the importance of phonological skills as precursors and facilitators of learning to read. Argues that it may be possible to develop a connectionist model which will be more consistent with evidence from…

Addresses areas of situated knowledge (metacognitive skills and affective skills) that have been ignored in intelligent computer-aided learning systems. Focuses on model-based reasoning, including contextualized and decontextualized knowledge, and examines an instructional method that supports situated knowledge by providing opportunities for…

This paper is structured in two sections. The first examines views of mathematical abstraction in two broad categories: empiricist and dialectical accounts. It documents the difficulties involved in and explores the potentialities of both accounts. Then it outlines a recent model which takes a dialectical materialist approach to abstraction in…

The traditional model of communication (sender-message-channel-receiver, SMCR) treats communication as a product rather than a process of interrelated elements of interaction. The SMCR model identifies communication skills, attitudes, knowledge, and sociocultural positions as important factors affecting interactions. According to this model, the…

A workshop conducted for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation served to orient field and central staff with a multi-disciplinary, generalist approach to environmental impact review. The program was designed to provide content input from many different environmentally-related disciplines. It was also designed to assist staff…

Discusses the process of observation and presents a systematic approach for incorporating behavioral observations into evaluations and written psychological reports, based on Robert Carkhuff's Human Resource Development Model. Using this framework and drawing on the experiences of the authors, several principles of report writing are discussed.…

The author discusses support services related to generalizable skills instruction. She includes topics such as existing vocational training models for special needs learners and approaches for delivering support services. (CT)

Presents a model of the role of instructional feedback in learning a motor skill and identifies six levels of motor skill output, each of which has a characteristic type of feedback. The usefulness of several feedback techniques reported in the literature is discussed. (Author/LRW)

Develops a model of the stages of student rhetorical development and relates it to public speaking instruction. Suggests teaching strategies designed to lead students to each successive level of the model. (MS)

Results from a study of 485 young children provided evidence that the development of counting skills is an evolving process in which parts of a relatively simple rule are replaced by features that enable the child to perform an increasingly broad range of counting tasks. (Author/BW)

Ivey's Do-Use-Teach (DUT) model offers an important and viable vehicle for helping trainees get more than book learning out of training sessions. This article presents a basic structure for implementing a DUT model within the confines of the usual conseling theories or practicum courses. (Author)

The Will, Skill, Tool (WST) model of technology integration (G. Knezek, R. Christensen, R. Hancock, and A. Shoho, 2000) postulates that enhancing an educator's will, skill, and access to technology tools leads to higher stages of classroom technology integration, which in turn leads to greater student achievement. In this paper, regression…

Career education can take an important role in improving the conditions of life for everyone, the author believes; but we must guard against espousing it as a panacea while ignoring other important educational and social needs. (Editor)