Examined how student's strategies and associated conceptions emerged and changed over a 6-session tutoring curriculum designed to develop conceptual knowledge of linear functions. Found that the student did not erase his original conception or replace it with a conception supported by instruction, but instead refined his initial strategies and…

Describes how environmental education can help achieve the goals of public education reform. Focuses on reform in curriculum, instruction, and assessment and considers school reform in various types of school settings. (DDR)

Focuses on the rationale behind case-based instruction by describing the design and development of a prototype and addressing the justification of underlying design decisions. Outlines the prototype and presents formative evaluation results. (DDR)

Discusses the role of educational psychology in teacher education, recommending a major change in the content and methods for teaching human learning in preservice education; reconceptualizing educational psychology and describing self- regulation; highlighting an applied educational psychology course; and recommending that preservice teachers…

This article reviews the research on notetaking and describes a new notetaking strategy that emphasizes manipulating and organizing information rather than writing it. Teacher prepared individual note items are graphically organized by students. Examples are used from Grade 10 social studies and Grade 9 English classes, both of which included…

This article looks at the perceptions of faculty academic staff on information literacy and the skills that it involves. The research was undertaken at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) in 2004 where staff were surveyed on the information skills that students should possess by the time that they graduate.

As web-based courses using videos have become popular in recent years, the issue of managing audio-visual aids has become pertinent. Generally, the contents of audio-visual aids may include a lecture, an interview, a report, or an experiment, which may be transformed into a streaming format capable of making the quality of Internet-based videos…

In this study, we investigated the fluency with which first graders of different mathematical achievement levels applied multiple, school-taught strategies for finding arithmetic sums over 10. We characterized children's strategies with the 4 parameters of Lemaire and Siegler's (1995) model of strategy change (strategy repertoire, distribution,…

This study assessed the effects of Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS), a reciprocal classwide peer-tutoring strategy, on the reading performance of native Spanish-speaking students with learning disabilities (LD) and their low-, average-, and high-achieving classroom peers. Participants were 132 native Spanish-speaking English language…

Within our lives there are spaces of influence or opportunities in which the impact of an "influential other" enables learning in ways that might not otherwise occur. This paper focusses on learning in terms of the learning of others, and in particular the professional impact of John Bowden. Building on the work of Vygotsky (1978), and Wood,…

Creative intelligence is relevant to all aspects of the school curriculum, yet it is through art and design that pupils may come to experience the significance of creativity as a means of exploring innovative and original ideas which offer credence to the individual and affect approaches to learning. This article analyses creativity and the…

Research findings indicate that many students fail to benefit from academic support services and courses. The paper discusses reasons why some students resist changing their academic behaviors and links the reasons to learning and motivation variables. The explanations for failure to change include: (1) students believe they can't change; (2)…

The objective of this study was to investigate how different components of achievement goal theory were related to each other and to students' motivation, cognitive engagement, and achievement in mathematics. Junior high school students (N=525) completed a self-report survey that assessed their perceived classroom goal structures; personal goal…

In this special issue, readers were introduced to three powerful, evidence-based instructional practices that hold great promise for ameliorating many of the reading difficulties encountered by pupils in 21st century classrooms. Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS), ClassWide Peer Tutoring (CWPT), and START tutoring have emerged from over…

Instructional condition has been an important area of study to improve learner satisfaction and learning outcomes within public and private organizations. Among various types of learning methods satisfying the online learner's learning styles, this study examined the effect of flexible learning delivery format on learning and application of…