How the computer can be used to support and improve the following teaching and study methods in geography is discussed: lectures, reading, tutoring, small group teaching, simulation, educational games, model building, problem solving, field work, written work, and exploratory data analysis. Educational problems involved in each application are…

This monograph represents an effort to build upon and extend beyond the literature on school mathematics as discussed in "Mathematics and Science: Critical Filters for the Future." Three significant changes in the political and educational landscape since 1985 are discussed. The first change is the introduction of mathematics standards…

According to a large number of nationally known educational experts a Culturally Relevant and Responsive Education (CRRE) system is the best alternative to improve not only the academic achievement of all students but also to prepare them for a better social and moral life. CRRE is a comprehensive, research-based, and practical alternative for…

Conscious that the achievement of educational equality for Australia's Indigenous peoples is a national priority, Australia's ministers of education, at a March 2000 meeting, committed themselves to a model of more culturally inclusive and educationally effective schools. The model is based on findings from recent work to improve educational…

This essay examines the ways in which psychology, as a discipline, has been influenced by feminist scholarship in the field. Noting that feminist psychologists have challenged the assumption that psychological science is value-free, it cites ways in which values have affected psychological theory and method. The view that men's behavior is…

Project-Based Teacher Partnerships is a model for teacher professional development to help teachers doing technology-supported project-based learning in the Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project. Experienced teachers team with a small number of less-experienced teachers to form a partnership. The partnership plans a project that the teachers will…

Presents accounts from primary teachers as they worked toward fostering questioning. Techniques included providing good stimuli for questions, having students share thoughts in groups of increasing size, and modeling good questions and question-asking. (PVD)

Discusses how to counter problems in coupling technical/technological courses with distance learning. Presents a model which incorporates up to nine different technologies (television; student response units; voice mail; electronic mail; fax; CD-ROM; Internet; videotape; and computer) and addresses administrative solutions for delivering such a…

Criticizes the beginning of period version of the IS-LM model found in most textbooks. Argues that this model fails to capture the effects of the issuance of financial assets to finance current investment spending by firms and current deficit spending by the government. Recommends an end-of- period model. (MJP)

Addresses issues that have arisen in planning for short-term language teaching projects involving business English as a Second Language. The issues discussed include the expectations of client groups, conflicting instructional paradigms, theoretical notions supporting the approach taken in the program and how program and curriculum development can…

Examines whether native speakers of German have different attitudes toward their own culture and other cultures than native speakers of English who teach German as a second language. Discusses the extent personal background influences classroom language teaching. Questions the meaning of the concept of citizenship in teachers' personal and…

Describes a team-taught two-week graduate course on information literacy for elementary and secondary school teachers and librarians. Active, student-centered learning and group assignments develop skills in finding information, analyzing and interpreting it, and putting it to practical use, while team teaching provides a model of collaboration…

Investigates and describes the current instructor experience of teaching college courses over the Web versus in face-to-face formats in terms of teaching strategies, social issues, and media effects. Discusses communication styles, relationship between students and instructors, instructor workload, and discussion patterns, and proposes a model…

Explores reasons for the tenuous relationship between educational research and educational practice. Suggests changes in research and policy to bring educational research directly to bear on educational problems. The major problem is that researchers are searching for variables that relate to improved outcomes, whereas educational innovators are…

Treats the development of general stereochemical principles in historical fashion. Discusses work by Pasteur, van't Hoff, and Le Bel. Considers sugars by configuration, anomeric forms, ring forms, and conformational isomers. Presents numerous diagrams and thorough explanations. (MVL)