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Strickland, Dorothy S., Ed.; Morrow, Lesley Mandel, Ed. – 1989
Designed to be scholarly in content and grounded in research and at the same time be practical and usable for day care workers, classroom teachers, and curriculum specialists, this book discusses various aspects of the view that children's literacy development is a continuous process beginning in infancy with exposure to oral language, written…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Classroom Design, Day Care
Presseisen, Barbara Z. – 1987
A study examined the cognitive development of at-risk students (those who have experienced difficulty or failure in their careers as learners), focusing on such groups as potential drop-outs, minority children, and disabled students (dsylexic or non-English speaking), as well as teaching thinking to this same student population. Although research…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Failure, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
Lee, Sharon – 1987
Realizing that many preservice elementary teachers experience writing apprehension which may affect their role as writing instructors, this semester-long study was undertaken in order (1) to provide preservice teachers with an appropriate role model of a teacher who gives positive feedback and improves students' concepts of themselves as writers;…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education
Bastiaens, Theo; van Merrienboer, Jeroen; Hoogveld, Bert – 2002
Human resource development (HRD) specialists are searching for instructional design models that accommodate e-learning platforms. Van Merrienboer proposed the four-component instructional design model (4C/ID model) for competency-based education. The model's basic message is that well-designed learning environments can always be described in terms…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Competency Based Education, Definitions, Distance Education
Lepard, David H.; Foster, Alice G. – 2003
The goal of this book is to begin the process of making a contribution to the identification and development of better-prepared and stronger educational leaders. It focuses on the following: leadership skills and their linkages to the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) standards and the National Policy Board for Educational…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness, Communication Skills, Educational Administration
Glover, Jeanne; DeCarme, Judi; Orkwis, Ray – 2003
This book is the third of four volumes in a directory of more than 1,000 discretionary grants and contracts supported by the Research to Practice Division of the Office of Special Education Programs. This volume focuses on projects concerned with technology and media services. These projects are intended to: (1) support educational media…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Captions, Computer Uses in Education, Contracts
Laiken, Marilyn E. – 2002
At the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Ontario, a course entitled Developing and Leading High Performing Teams: Theory and Practice is experimenting with a design that surfaces the action/reflection paradox for the purpose of learning how to manage this polarity. Whether the product is defined as services or goods,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Conflict Resolution, Cooperative Learning
Costanzo, Meg Ryback – 2001
In the Adult Multiple Intelligences (AMI) study, 10 teachers of adults from the northeastern region of the United States explored for 18 months the ways that multiple intelligences (MI) theory could support instruction and assessment in various adult learning contexts. The results of this research were published in a book by Julie Viens called MI…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Allen, Rich – 2001
This book explains the TrainSmart approach to training, which is based on how the authors believe the brain naturally learns best. Part 1 introduces the five pillars of the TrainSmart Model, which are as follows: (1) engage (engage participants' attention); (2) frame (establish a frame of reference); (3) explore (introduce a conceptual activity);…
Descriptors: Brain, Check Lists, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes
Lowrie, Tom – 1999
A 12-month research project evaluated the effects that competency-based approaches have had on the role of instructors in the vocational education and training (VET) sector in Australia. Specifically, the project investigated the levels of understanding of competency based-training (CBT) by instructors in the VET sector in a variety of settings…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Case Studies, Competency Based Education
Levine, David I. – Employment Research, 2002
In the classic employment contract, especially at large companies, wages were not strongly responsive to the labor market. Instead, individual companies had distinctive company wage levels and patterns. An exhaustive study of employers and employees in the United States and Japan examined whether the "old employment contract" has been…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2001
How to attract and retain adult students remains an enduring question for adult education providers. Recent research sheds light on adult learners' unique learning goals, needs, and aspirations and offers guidance on recruiting and retaining adult learners. Adult students' participation and persistence in educational activities is a complex…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Adult Students
Schuller, Tom – 1999
The arguments for deschooling expressed by Ivan Illich a quarter of a century ago have relevance today. We are in danger of losing their most salient insights; perhaps because the critique was phrased in this oversimplified binary form, excessive institutionalization should be countered by deinstitutionalization, professionalism by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developed Nations, Educational Philosophy, Educational Sociology
ACTTive Teachnology, 1996
Four issues of this newsletter published by Project ACTT (Activating Children Through Technology), an Early Education Program for Children with Disabilities Outreach Project on educational technology, include the following major articles: "Computer Applications and Young Children with Disabilities: Positive Outcomes" (Patricia Hutinger); "Project…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Art Activities, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Beginning Reading
Orkwis, Ray; DeCarme, Judi; Glover, Jeanne – 1998
The five-volume directory describes more than 1,200 discretionary grants and contracts supported by the Research to Practice Division of the Office of Special Education Programs. The projects are grouped into sections representing the seven program areas of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Amendments (1997), Part D. This…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Educational Innovation, Educational Legislation