Provides an overview of papers presented at the Scholarship of Teaching Economics conference held at the University of Melbourne (Australia) in July 2000. Considers who should determine the curriculum, what should be taught, and how the curriculum should be taught. (RLH)

Describes a study which examined coverage by bibliographic tools of conference materials cited in journal articles for six fields: mathematics, physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and mechanical engineering. It is concluded that cited conference material is difficult to find using general bibliographic…

The relationship between various types of scholarly activities and evaluations of teaching with respect to 67 business administration faculty members was examined. The higher status type (books, refereed journals, national presentations) of research showed no relationship to teaching evaluations but there was a modest positive relationship between…

Presents comments about the international symposium presentations on thinking research reproduced in the present issue of Teaching and Teacher Education. Issues covered were preservice teacher education; beginning teacher supervision; the relationship between teacher and researcher; teacher guilt; and teacher thinking, knowledge, and action. (SM)

Presents suggestions to help teachers improve their chances of being selected to speak at educational conferences. Ideas include speaking locally, applying for short sessions, creating catchy titles, being specific, being flexible, and not overselling. Though conferences are often expensive, many teachers participate to share with their…

Suggestions for conducting presentations in foreign countries include speak slowly and clearly, dress formally, accept the lecture format, provide research-based data, take handouts, avoid slang, use humor cautiously, consider semantics, plan ahead, network, and recognize that participants have different grade levels, extracurricular activities,…

Investigates the role of visual communication in a spoken research genre: the scientific research paper. Analyzes 2,048 visuals projected during 90 papers given at five international conferences in three fields (Geology, medicine, physics), in order to bring out the recurrent features of the visual dimension. (Author/VWL)

The November 2001 meeting of the Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education focused on globalization and how religious education responds to it. This brief look at what the term globalization signifies and the challenging consequences of globalization sets the context for the selected conference papers appearing in this issue…

We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2013, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1 to 3 of June. Education, in a global sense, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the…

These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference on Mobile Learning 2013, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, in Lisbon, Portugal, March 14-16, 2013. The Mobile Learning 2013 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of…

Successful learners are those who engage in self-regulation of learning by using learning strategies to secure task completion. They exercise behavioral control to not only choose or plan valuable academic tasks, but also to maintain motivation and intention in the light of distracting alternatives. It was expected that teachers' self-efficacy…

One of the indicators of the health of an organization is the number of individuals participating in its annual meeting. Factors influencing meeting attendance and the relationships between positive attendance indicators and registration were studied for the Mid-South Educational Research Association, using participant data for 1984 through 1992.…

Through personal reminiscences, the author offers a retrospective view of the first fifty years of the activities of the Central States Speech Association. Reflecting on past papers and convention programs, the author calls attention to the proliferation and diversification of interests in speech communication's instructional and investigative…

This issue of the journal of the Colorado Council of Teachers of Mathematics focuses on the role of technology--in particular, computers--in teaching mathematics, with overall philosophical issues of technology in education considered as well. Fourteen articles deal with the topics of: (1) Computers in American Schools: Philosophical and Political…

The Second National Conference on Education in February was held under the auspices of the School of Forestry of Yale University at New Haven, Connecticut on December 17 and 18, 1920. Its purpose was to discuss the question: To what extent and in what ways is it desirable to revise the standardized curriculum of instruction in forestry that for…