A teacher describes an incident involving his fifth-grade class and an angry elderly woman. He points out that the event became a learning experience in standing up for one's rights, tenacity, respect for others, compassion, and responsibility for the elderly. (JD)

Presents evidence from the memory development literature showing why strategies and metaknowledge are not sufficient factors to account for memory development. Summarizes current research on the influence of the general knowledge base, including general world-knowledge and domain-specific knowledge and procedures. Discusses questions that must be…

What should be done to improve the critical thinking skills of preservice and inservice teachers is outlined. (MT)

A teacher offers six suggestions for giving students opportunities to exercise their commonsense thinking skills. This allows the teacher to ask rather than tell, listen rather than talk, and allows the children to provide for themselves. (MT)

Although the application and acceptance of qualitative research have increased over the last decade, there is little empirical information about how one should learn qualitative methods. This paper describes a reflective strategy for learning the methods of qualitative research that draws on experience in a graduate qualitative methods course and…

This article describes LEARN, a five-step plan to help students with disabilities succeed on tests. The steps include listen for hints, clues, and important information; examine notes, books, and papers; apply study and memory strategies; review every night; and nail the test. The benefits to using this approach are reviewed. (CR)

Discusses learning strategies for preparing for tests. Highlights the importance of organization of knowledge and reviewing. (JRH)

Studied whether a recently developed mnemonic strategy could be used more independently by middle school students. Results of 2 studies involving 48 and 70 seventh graders show that students did not create their own memory-enhancing visual images in the absence of instructor-provided interactive drawings. Results support the view that less…

Reports on a qualitative study conducted in the Japanese foreign language context about good foreign language learners, in which strategy use is analyzed in 67 books reporting on "how I have learned a foreign language." Results suggest that there are strategies especially favored in the Japanese foreign language context and that the issue of some…

Considers how preceding articles by Jansen and van der Maas, and Halford et al., contribute to understanding of how rule use can be best assessed, how systematic rule use can be reconciled with variable rule use, when children begin to use rules, and how children generate new rules. Summarizes current understanding of development of knowledge…

Empirical evidence indicates that learning in many organizations is simple rather than complex, and many organizations seem to be unable to reflect on and draw from learning processes. An ecological broadening of perspectives is recommended as a solution. (SK)

Explores logarithms of negative numbers spurred by an unanticipated result given by a calculator. Shares the perspectives of the teacher and the teacher-as-learner. (Author/NB)

Describes the characteristics of young children as they develop problem-solving skills and strategies. (Author/NB)

Presents five guidelines for helping students retrieve declarative memories in the context of geology activities. Based on research findings on brain function from the fields of neuroscience and psychology, the activities provide opportunities for students to practice using cues to enhance memory. (DLH)

Discusses how the conceptual apparatus and modus operandi of games theory provides a research heuristic for understanding the strategic possibilities inherent in typical classroom situations in which the interests of students and teachers are partially concurrent and partly in conflict. Also discusses the preconditions for contracts between…