This 2004 revision represents a refinement of the competencies to reflect current technologies and to incorporate future technological developments. The three Competency Goals are unchanged from those adopted for the 1992 Standard Course of Study. They are: (1) The learner will understand important issues of a technology-based society and will…

Two studies addressed the relationship between elementary school students' knowledge of specific words and their comprehension of passages involving those words. In the first study, 39 students in grades 5 and 6 read 4 passages, answered comprehension questions, and defined words that were included in the questions. Most of the words in the…

This paper provides a summary and a critique of the empirical literature on elementary teachers' mathematical knowledge. The empirical evidence addresses four major issues surrounding teachers' mathematical knowledge: 1) What is the nature of teachers' content knowledge, particularly with regard to the domain of number? 2) How does teachers'…

Author describes two instructive ways of illustrating the principal business of aesthetic education and summarizes the way in which the notion of a form of understanding is dealt with by Dearden. (Author/RK)

This paper has suggested that many, if not most, students need practice in decision making and added motivation for learning the material in the school curriculum. (Author)

Students enrolled in an Introductory Health course were given a questionnaire (determining student's chief source of information regarding sex knowledge) and a test of their actual knowledge about sexual matters. Those students who indicated the school as their major source of information demonstrated more knowledge than those listing parents or…

Article considers the purposes of social studies instruction and focused on the transmission of knowledge and societal processes. (Author/RK)

Problems accompanying research in education are discussed. (CK)

Although today's young people are greatly opinionated on many political issues, their knowledge of all the facts concerning these matters is appallingly lacking. (CK)

Offers evidence that experimental results may be distorted by subject nonnaivety and notes the need to eliminate such contamination, as well as means of assuring subject naivety. Tables and bibliography. (RW)

The presuppositions about knowledge and the practice of teaching in Joseph Diorio's "Knowledge, Autonomy and the Practice of Teaching" (Curriculum Inquiry 12:3) are inadequate because Diorio ignored the social construction of knowledge and practice, thus distorting his view of human agency. Knowledge used in teaching can be understood…

Joseph Diorio in "Knowledge, Autonomy and the Practice of Teaching" (Curriculum Inquiry 12:3) wrongly assumed that knowledge usually governs practice, defined the concept of practice too narrowly, and used uncritically the idea of faultless performance. Thus unnecessarily restrictive about the potential for teacher preparation, Diorio…

Alan R. Tom (Curriculum Inquiry 13:2) misrepresented Diorio's position on the types of practice possible and on the concept of faultless performance. Freema and Robert Elbaz (Curriculum Inquiry 13:2), though correct in pointing out the social contexts of practice, also misrepresent Diorio's presuppositions and draw conclusions not warranted by his…

A breastfeeding education program for low income women with a grade/high school education was developed. Reported are the effects of the program on the knowledge, attitudes, and infant feeding practices of a sample of pregnant women (N=44). Program consisted of five pamphlets mailed to subjects' homes over a five-week period. (JN)