Reviews David Kolb's Experiential Learning Model, stressing its potential for developing or redesigning curricula for adult learners to include learning modes focusing on concrete experience, active experimentation, reflective observation, and abstract conceptualization. Offers a checklist for assessing which modes are accommodated by an…

Study results suggest that student achievement and attitudes toward economics at the college level might be improved by a better match between the teaching style of instructors and the learning style of students. (Author/RM)

Analyzes teaching as remembered by graduate students and concludes that an essential ingredient in effective education is effective teaching which is firm, fair, challenging, and compassionate and is based on a confidence between student and teacher rooted in trust and faith. Also cites examples of bad teaching practices. (RDN)

Hearing impaired students who are mainstreamed often encounter problems in dealing with the usual flow of classroom communication. To examine the effect of action zone phenomenon, six mainstreamed classes were observed and coded for location of student-teacher interactions. Results and discussion are presented. (Author/DF)

Reviews the theories which assert the necessity for prolonged intensive listening without expectations of production for some time in language teaching. Asserts that comprehension and production are indissoluble partners in the two-way process of communicative interaction and that teacher-directed and dominated classrooms are not interactive…

Research on teaching is beginning to uncover what teachers do to create conditions that foster learning. Some ideas about teacher behavior that have been linked to positive learning outcomes are explored. Five teaching styles that can be linked to research findings are presented. (DF)

Upper elementary and high school students completed an instrument that measured student attitudes toward social studies and indicated the presence of factors found to contribute to positive student attitudes toward social studies in previous research. It was concluded that teaching style did not have a meaningful impact on student attitudes.…

Teachers are encouraged to adapt their instructional programs to learners' cognitive styles, whether global or analytic. (GW)

Extracts from the research findings on pupil gain in English, and on the effect of the eleven-plus are discussed. (Editor/RK)

This study reported how four science teachers used action research to promote their students' motivation in learning physical science. Four teachers with one of their 8th grade physical science classes participated in the study. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research design were used in the study, and data collection included…

Mediated learning utilizes multimedia-based instructional modules to provide students with individualized access to information in alignment with their individual learning styles (Kinser, Morris, & Hewitt). In contrast with traditional pedagogy, the mission of the instructor in a mediated learning environment is to facilitate learning rather than…

During the last decade, U.S. K-12 schools have approximately tripled their spending on increasingly powerful computers, expanded network access, and novel computer applications. The number of questions being asked by educators, policymakers, and the general public about the extent to which these technologies are being used in classrooms, for what…

A study utilized data from four successive school years to explore the stability and correlates of teacher effects in reading. A "value-added" model was used to isolate the effect of the teacher from child demographic variables such as race, poverty, gender, family composition, and special learning needs. Teacher effects in second grade…

Discrepant questioning is a teaching technique that can help students "unlearn" misconceptions and process science ideas for deep understanding. Discrepant questioning is a technique in which teachers question students in a way that requires them to examine their ideas or models, without giving information prematurely to the student or passing…

The Ross Educational Philosophical Inventory (REPI) is used to correlate students' general educational philosophy with their potential teacher attitudes, performance, and approach. (Author/NJ)