This study demonstrates the possibilities of videopaper to support teacher professional development in a workplace setting. A team of five mathematics teachers in a secondary school was followed over a period of six months as they worked jointly to improve their teaching and team practice. In a stepwise strategy for deliberate and object-oriented…

The problem of the relation of theory to practice in teaching and teacher training has been a major issue of debate for a long time. Well over a century ago, Dewey (1904) discussed the tensions between the role of theoretical insight as a preparation for the teaching profession versus the need for more practical, how-to-do-it courses in which one…

This paper discusses using the Monopoly[R] board game as an economic simulation exercise to reinforce an understanding of how the accounting cycle impacts financial statements used to evaluate management performance. This approach uses the rules and strategies of a familiar board game to create a simulation of business and economic realities,…

Systems designed to ensure that teaching and student learning are of a suitable quality are a feature of universities globally. Quality assurance systems are central to attempts to internationalise higher education, motivated in part by a concern for greater global equality. Yet, if such systems incorporate comparisons, the tendency is to reflect…

The study investigates immediate and delayed effects of different hypermedia glosses on incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension of advanced foreign language learners. Sixty-nine freshman TEFL students studying at a Turkish university were randomly assigned to three types of annotations: (a) definitions of words, (b) definitions…

Annotation can be a valuable exercise when trying to understand new information. The technique can be used to create a "condensed" version of the original information for later review and to add additional information into the existing document. The growth in web-based learning materials and information sources has created requirement for systems…

The technical report or "fugitive" literature collected by ERIC is produced using a wide variety of printing techniques, many formats, and variable degrees of quality control. Since the documents processed by ERIC go on to be microfilmed and reproduced in microfiche and paper copy for sale to users, it is essential that the ERIC document…

Evaluators, by the nature of their work, must be concerned with data management activities ranging from the collection and recording of data to the analyses, summation, and presentation of those data. Though word processing has been cited as the most frequently used microcomputer package by educational evaluators, spreadsheets are among the most…

This publication is one in a series of booklets designed to provide basic, practical guidance to information workers and students. It is intended to assist information workers (i.e., librarians, information scientists, archivists, indexers, bibliographers, database managers, information officers--and many other titles by which these workers are…

An access method for bibliographic records that combines features of the search key approach and the inverted file approach. Permits extension of search key technique to large files. (Author/LS)

An index intended to fill gaps in otherwise available lists of actual recordings of voices and events of documentary and historical value on commercial long-playing records. (CH)

This bibliography, which was prepared for use by participants in a series of ten workshops on the "Effective Use of OCLC," includes some of OCLC's own documentation and training materials, news items from the literature citing landmark events in the network's growth, and research studies analyzing OCLC application and/or implementation.…

This presentation on the European social science data organizations and such international cooperation in federations/associations as CESSDA (Committee of European Social Science Data Archives), IFDO (International Federation of Data Organizations for the Social Sciences), and IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information…

Intended for directors and staffs of federally funded projects, especially Teacher Corps activities, this book contains discussions of six educational concepts and processes which stem directly from the federal commitment to "demonstrate" that is made explicit in the Teacher Corps guidelines. The umbrella concept is identified as…

THE BACKGROUND, OPERATIONAL, AND PROCEDURAL EVENTS LEADING TO AND INCLUDED IN THE BUILDING OF THE "THESAURUS OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC TERMS" ARE DISCUSSED. THE WORK WAS PERFORMED BY THE OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH, AT THE REQUEST OF THE DIRECTOR, DEFENSE RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING, UNDER A SPECIALLY ESTABLISHED TASK NAMED PROJECT LEX.…