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…

Explores secondary school students' ideas and perceptions about learning, including how they learn best and what approaches and teaching strategies they find most conducive to learning. Results of interviews, questionnaires, and focus groups suggest students can engage in metacognitive activity, identify strengths and difficulties in learning, and…

Examines the relationship between cross-sectional measures of referential style and measures based on the first 50 words in 12 first-born children. Because no relationship was found, it is argued that age-defined cross-sectional measures confound strategy differences in early language development with variation resulting from differences in…

Discusses the need to have a clear understanding of the environment into which learning materials and resources are introduced. Topics discussed include the instructional design process, front end analysis, systems inquiry and design inquiry, the learner's role and the teacher's role, and the physical environment. (29 references) (LRW)

Excerpts from a guide for college students in conquering mathematics anxiety are presented. Selections, reconfigured for counselor and advisor use, offer coping techniques for overcoming fear of mathematics, the conviction that mathematics is a White male domain, and the assumption that one cannot be good in both mathematics and language arts.…

Beginners and advanced bowlers should understand the importance of basic principles of motion in developing an effective and competitive game. This article presents important mechanical principles of bowling, along with their applications. Topics include body balance and motion, transfer of momentum and creating force, and ball direction and pin…

Presents strategies designed to provide students with an organizational pattern to help them generate clear thinking, reading, and writing. (RS)