Discusses the 16th International Chemistry Olympiad held in Frankfurt, West Germany. First-ever entrants from the United States scored high in this worldwide high school competition of chemical knowledge, but were low in laboratory skill events. (JN)

This document provides a basic framework that schools/districts can use to assess students' abilities to use information technology tools to improve their own performance. There are components of this document that the developers believe should not be changed but rather remain constant. These would include the standards themselves, the specific…

The "English Standards of Learning Enhanced Scope and Sequence" for Grades 9-12 is a resource intended to help teachers align their classroom instruction with the content found in "English Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools", adopted by the Virginia Board of Education in November 2002. In addition, the Enhanced…

This study asked college students to report their current institutional grade point average (GPA) and grant permission for the researcher to examine the official records with the understanding that some had questioned the accuracy of such self-reported GPA. The relationship between self-report and actual GPA was moderately powerful, but…

This paper addresses contemporary (i.e., postmodern) concerns with the disintegration of meaning and fragmentation of knowledge. As society continues to move towards increased specialization and separation of disciplines, people are becoming increasingly disconnected from the broad connecting conceptions within the disciplines, i.e., the patterns…

Many researchers have paid attention to the potentiality and possibility of the shared mental model because it enables teammates to perform their job better by sharing team knowledge, skills, attitudes, dynamics and environments. Even though theoretical and experimental evidences provide a close relationship between the shared mental model and…

The explosion of knowledge is accompanied by implosions in the form of theories which simplify knowledge and make it easier to learn and use. (Editor)

Results reveal that many teachers who are often responsible for drug education in the public schools simply do not have an adequate understanding of the subject. (Authors)

The Knowledge of Infant Development Scale was created to assess the effectiveness of preservice and inservice training programs upon their participants. (Author/CB)

The relationship between an individual's opinion on a social issue and the knowledge that individual has of the facts pertinent to that issue is different for males than it is for females. (Author)

The author discusses what he considers a defect in individualized programs -- a lack of assessment of a child's knowledge. (AK)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to compare the cognitive performance of students from a new curricula (PSSC) and from traditional (non-PSSC) curricula. Results essentially supported contention that PSSC materials were more effective in developing higher cognitive skills. (DS)

Principles of cognitive psychology are used to explain the reading comprehension process. More effective diagnosis and solution of reading problems can be made by understanding the many factors involved and using a broad conceptual model, including internal and external influences, to pinpoint difficulties. (Author/CJ)

Discusses the notion that knowledge grows exponentially and describes its growth mathematically by an exponential function. Growth patterns in subfields of knowledge or research areas are described citing related research. Interpretation of growth rate statistics and forecasts are included. Thirty-three references and statistics used for graphs…

Ninety-five learning disability specialists on pupil evaluation teams were given a test of basic measurement concepts important in test interpretation. Results showed that, on the average, learning disability specialists answered only every other question correctly and performed significantly below a group of students enrolled in an introductory…