Describes a teacher's efforts to ascertain the level of challenge perceived by his eighth-grade students. Enumerates five starting point questions to ascertain student opinion: (1) adequacy of academic challenge; (2) appropriateness of homework quantity; (3) homework quality; (4) self rating of individual quality of effort; and (5) academic hopes…

Describes a psychology course that implemented a problem-solving approach to provide students with a hands-on experience of community psychology in a multicultural South Africa. Traces the students' reactions to the course from their initial enthusiasm and emergence of frustration to their eventual understanding of other cultures. (CMK)

Explores a study that quantifies preschool children's music learning preferences in teacher-intitiated environments by observing the children on video to determine their flow experiences where the challenge level and skill level are both high. Stresses that using flow to measure music experiences provides a means for teachers to evaluate student…

Describes an exercise that helps graduate students understand countertransference, a concept involving a therapist's conscious and unconscious reactions to clients and reflects the therapist's values, biases, and past experiences. Explains that the students write a paper discussing their interpersonal reactions in an interview designed as a…

Describes the Correlator, an interactive computer tutorial that helps students explore positive, zero, and negative correlation coefficients. Discusses studies that assessed whether the Correlator aided in student learning revealing that students completing the Correlator better understand correlation coefficients and enjoy the tutorial. (CMK)

Presents an art activity where the students create a mixed media painting by making a center area made of copper repousse and carrying the design in soft colored pencil and/or tempera paint to an outside mat creating a continuity of design. Discusses the process in detail. (CMK)

Describes an art lesson for sixth-grade students where they learn to use perspectives by drawing a cityscape. Explains that first the teacher demonstrates how to draw using perspective on the blackboard showing the ground line, horizon line, and vanishing point and then the students copy the example themselves. (CMK)

Analyzes students' visual renderings of concepts related to the term "hypermedia" to determine whether groups, membership of which was based on a mixture of learning styles or a mixture of hypermedia knowledge, constructed concept maps that differed in terms of several factors. Learning style seemed to explain the types of interactions more than…

The purpose of this study was to determine certain attitudes of students who had received instruction via an interactive distance education environment utilizing compressed video technology. Subjects were students enrolled in courses offered by Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College and other members of the Mississippi Community College network.…

Describes an activity in which students create four-part stamp designs using a particular theme, such as sports, that work as a balanced composition, individually and collectively. Addresses how the students created their stamp designs and discusses the students' responses to the project. (CMK)

Examines instances of "high" literacy, literate thinking, among elementary school students working with common computer software during their normal school day. Seven forms of engagement emerged to categorize students' work, and these were arranged in order of complexity: disengagement, unsystematic engagement, frustrated engagement,…

Explores undergraduate student withdrawal behavior in the business school of a new university. Examines the complex interplay of forces-personal, institutional, and contextual/external-which lead up to the decisions by a student to leave or to stay. A comparative study is made of experiences of students who left, and of those who experienced…

Examines the role and effects of negative responses and uncooperative behavior in young children. Describes four basic types of uncooperative responses. Offers eight strategies for managing inappropriate responses before they become barriers to learning and development, as well as suggestions for teacher monitoring of their own attitudes. (SD)

Assessed prosocial and stigmatic reactions towards HIV- infected individuals based on mode of disease transmission. Findings from 227 college students reveal HIV-infected women were held less accountable than men and HIV-infected IV drug users were held more accountable and garnered less sympathetic reaction. Results are discussed in relation to…

Examines methodological issues related to the approach to be used in writing a textbook for foreign language students of Russian. These issues center around practical communication; the treatment of grammar; and the use of the target language, authentic materials, and audiovisual materials. Results indicate that grammar explanations and complete…