A cross-sectional study compared 83 entering and 39 exiting master of business administration students (either on-campus, distance, or executive cohort). All groups reported significantly higher scores upon exit for 7 of 12 learning skills. Distance students reported significantly higher scores than on-campus students on technology, quantitative,…

Presents and discusses examples that illustrate the nature and scope of elementary and middle school students' reasoning when they are faced with tasks that involve making inferences and predictions from data. Shows that the range in thinking is not so much dependent on age as on the experiences students have in data exploration. (KHR)

Identified pedagogical strategies that helped preservice secondary teachers improve their reflective thinking via journal writing during the first semester of a year-long professional program. Case studies of four preservice teachers found that no single pedagogical strategy was best, and students responded differently to different strategies.…

Explains how students self-regulate while reading, describing students' personal beliefs of self-efficacy, task value, and motivation and how these beliefs influence their self- regulated reading; discussing the processes of self-regulated reading (goal setting; selection, use, and monitoring of reading strategies; and self-evaluation); and…

Examines how the asynchronous learning network (ALN) forum causes a rethinking of conventional teaching and learning practices and impacts the traditional student-instructor role in college-level courses. Suggests a model for understanding how students progress through the ALN and presents strategies for online instructors to use to increase…

Outlines what should be done before and during the analysis and design stages of the ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation) instructional systems design/development (ISD) process to increase the alignment of electronic learning (e-learning) content with performance. Provides an example with a system for developing…

Presents a qualitative study of five groups of college students using Inspiration computer software to construct concept maps in an educational technology class. Considers how the maps changed during the semester, how course concepts were applied in a final project, and whether students reported that the collaborative concept mapping activity…

Investigates the effects of computers and Internet technology on teaching and learning. Presents electronic examples that integrate well with high-quality mathematics instructional programs. (KHR)

Studied the reliability, structure, and criterion-related validity of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI; C. Weinstein, 1987) using data from 502 university students. Results suggest that the LASSI may not measure the postulated 10 scales typically used to report results. (SLD)

Examines why many beginning teachers have limited knowledge about student learning. Discusses some research-based findings about teachers' understandings of student learning. For example, understanding student learning develops in a consistent sequence through six levels of increased sophistication. Suggests ways teacher educators can improve…

Investigates the knowledge about listening strategies among German university students. Shows that the scope of listening skills is rather limited even among experienced listeners and that there is considerable room for modifying listening behavior. Argues that listening represents a set of activities that control and shape the cognitive processes…

Investigates proficient and less-proficient readers comprehension monitoring. Findings show that proficient readers displayed more competency in monitoring their ongoing thinking processes, because they tended to monitor their reading processes at all times in order to compensate for words that had not been previously decoded. (Author/VWL)

Provides teachers with selected background knowledge and strategies that enhance the learning process for English as a Second Language (ESL) students in secondary classrooms. Discusses the stages of language development and cultural adaptation that all second-language learners navigate through. Outlines important linguistic and cultural processes.…

Discusses the causes of variability of training impact and problems with previous models for evaluation of training. Presents the Success Case Evaluation approach as a way to measure the impact of training and build learning capability to increase the business value of training by focusing on a small number of trainees. (Author/LRW)

Discussion of learning from hypertext focuses on a study that investigated three approaches for inducing learning goals: a tutorial that provided external and specific learning objectives; a goal-based scenario; and a strategy training leading to internal goal generation. Compared the three conditions regarding learning outcomes and motivational…