Teachers may use any of numerous methods of teaching in the classroom. The quality of any learning activity depends upon what occurs and how it affects participants. Some of the more common methods of teaching are: the lecture method; memorization methods; discussion methods; problem solving; use of critical thinking; and use of creative thinking.…

Teachers in a middle school using the Strategic Teaching and Reading Project, a nationally recognized research-based model for educational change, were asked to reflect on their own teaching practices and experiences with the five global strategies of: metacognition, prior knowledge, inference, word meaning, and text structure. The instructional…

The metacognitive strategies used in reading were studied for students from grade 2 through grade 12 (no data were collected for grade 4). The Strategic Teaching and Reading Project (STRP) is a research-based instructional improvement and staff development project to improve reading comprehension. Ten K-12 public schools, and 1,570 students…

Kentucky's 8 public universities participated in the 2001 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) as part of a consortium organized by the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. The NSSE measures student activities that studies have shown to be critically important to student learning and development. Nationally, more than 105,000…

This report describes the processes and findings of a north east Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) research project. This was a collaborative research study, which followed from a similar, much larger project in the north west, which looked into how learners view their own progress and achievement in the acquisition of literacy and…

This book describes work that has been done with verbally impaired individuals (autism, brain surgery, Down's Syndrome) who are unable to use language to convey even the simplest idea. The book points out that such people are not necessarily strangers to language, they just have not found a way to express themselves. The work discussed in the book…

This book offers teachers a toolbox for discovering the innate strengths and talents and the unique learning styles of each student. Drawing from Howard Gardner's work on multiple intelligences, the book offers more than a dozen activities specifically tailored to each of the eight multiple intelligences: verbal/linguistic, mathematical/logical,…

In two studies, college students' self-regulated learning was assessed and used as a predictor of transfer. Study 1 (n=229 undergraduates) explored whether components of self-regulation related to the ability to transfer information from a base problem-solving task to a target problem-solving task. Study 2 (n=98 undergraduates) replicated the…

This paper examines effective study strategies and how they can be used to enhance learning among African American college and university students, focusing on the importance of memory and metacognition in learning. The paper also explores factors that affect the use of these strategies and discusses how to overcome them. Effective study…

Whatever grade level, content, or texts that educators teach, their ultimate goal is to develop their students' understanding of what they read. The 29 articles in this anthology were published in "The Reading Teacher" from 1993 to 1999 and offer ideas to help students comprehend different types of texts and literacies, from technology…

This study was undertaken to understand a motivation model in the context of the Korean elementary school mathematics class. The sample consisted of 178 fourth graders (boys=95; girls=83) from 2 Korean elementary schools. This study showed that a goal mediational model could be modified and successfully applied to the context of the Korean…

With the large numbers of African American children who are not successful in school, more attention needs to be devoted to developing methods and processes by which they can effectively learn, achieve, and be empowered. The performance statistics for African American students in public schools are alarming. Their suspension rates are high, and 20…

A goal mediational model to conceptualize the effects of students' motivational beliefs on their learning strategies was modified with the three goal orientations: task, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals. Questionnaires were administered to 161 Korean fifth graders (boys = 88; girls = 73) in an elementary school math class.…

Two areas of study in the composition field, grammar and style, have fallen below the critical and professional radar, left to the handbook writers, old-school theorists, and secondary educators. Though a few voices remain, their conspicuous absence in the scholarly journals and at professional conferences clearly suggests that the field has moved…

To facilitate the extemporaneous speaking style, the preferred method of speech delivery in public speaking classes, students are advised to take a notecard with key words and phrases on it with them as they deliver the speech. In other words, the speech is to be well rehearsed but not given completely from memory or from a detailed manuscript.…