Investigated the role of language proficiency and automatization of language skills in the use of spontaneous rehearsal strategies by 7- to 13-year olds who are deaf. Regression analyses demonstrated that age was a nonsignificant predictor of rehearsal use and that language proficiency and the automatization of language skills were highly…

Shares an approach to tree identification that can be adapted to use with all levels from middle school through college. Stresses student involvement and cooperation in a botanical scavenger hunt. Describes the development of the treasure map and how to use the guide sheet. (DDR)

Presents an activity on the study, collection, and analysis of snow. Provides students with opportunities to conduct fieldwork in a collaborative team fashion and develop skills in formulating and testing hypotheses. (DDR)

Explains how solar eclipses occur and provides information on future eclipse events. Also includes a solar eclipse viewing activity. (DDR)

Examines "Theater-in-Education," (TIE) a unique British-inspired teaching-and-learning methodology which combines young people's theater with creative drama, currently taught at a handful of universities in the United States. Finds that, as a result of the program's tour to 10 fifth-grade classrooms in five schools, area teachers were unanimous in…

Used multigroup scaling models to separate the contributions of cognitive style from ability in school-age children's performance on Figural Intersection Test. Results showed that field-dependent children had greater odds of success than field-independent children when the task's mental-attentional demand was above the child's mental-attentional…

Explains why the research requirement of the resident curriculum should be developed around the scientific method. The method can be stated in the form of: (1) make an observation; (2) make a hypothesis; (3) test the hypothesis; and (4) reach a conclusion. When research topics are broken down under these main steps, residents can see a more…

Argues that good science can be enhanced and enlivened, integrated with other curriculum areas, and made more relevant to a student's world through the use of the arts in instruction. Provides examples of art in science through music, poetry, science fiction, and visual art. (DDR)

Describes an activity that employs the study of unicorns as an enjoyable and vivid means by which young children can learn to distinguish fact from fantasy. Students learn about the characteristics of animals suspected of being unicorns. (DDR)

Describes a distance-learning program developed by the New York Times that used ISDN videoconferencing technology and an Internet broadcast to educate college professors on how its publication could be used on campuses as a learning tool for undergraduate students. (LRW)

Examined whether a sample of variability measures could be reduced to a smaller number of factors with 8 independent samples of second through fourth graders and adults. Found that a 2-factor model of strategy diversity and strategy change was supported for all samples. Strategy diversity positively related to children's recall; strategy change…

Looks at how the theory of language-learning strategies (LLS), as used by speakers of other languages, has developed alongside other theories of language teaching and learning, and at the place of LLS in the field of contemporary eclectic language teaching and learning. Focuses on one aspect of LLS in practice by reporting on a study conducted…

Discusses the importance of new product development in contributing to the success of corporations and examines differences between models of corporate culture in Japan and the United States that account for the current Japanese advantage. Highlights include leadership style; work structure; reward and recognition systems; and alternative…

Discussion of the need for training and lifelong learning in light of new information and communication technologies focuses on small businesses with few employees who need rapid and continuous training. Topics include communities of practice; network-based learning; distance education; enterprise training; mutual training; knowledge creation;…

Studied how features of student interaction and the way an individual student contributes to that interaction relates to the improvement of conceptual understanding in the domain of physics, focusing on the use of textbooks during collaborative work. Results for 56 high school students show that the use of textbooks had a negative effect on…