Examined how preservice second language teachers navigate through the difficulties of introducing cooperative learning into the classrooms during student teaching, despite the fact that this approach differs from their cooperating teachers' customary teaching strategy. Sought to determine what helps or inhibits the students teachers' progress.…

Asserting that researchers use different ways to measure the effects of seniority and experience on faculty earnings, reviews some of the theoretical reasons why the return on seniority may be different in academia than in other labor markets. Argues that the negative return on seniority and the extent of salary compression have been overstated by…

A case study approach illustrates the various statistical and political issues that analysts encounter when conducting a salary-equity study for a single institution. Highlights the importance of integrating various stakeholders in the process of assessing salary equity. (EV)

Examined dissonant forms of teaching and their relation to student learning. Found that in units of study, students report a higher quality learning experience (deep approaches), and the relationships between approaches to teaching and perceptions of the teaching context are consonant and coherent for the more senior teachers. In units of study in…

Describes a teaching approach that uses an operating classroom business to fund service learning projects. (YDS)

Presents findings from observations of two classrooms in which teachers used an interactive whiteboard and projector. Provides ways of using the interactive whiteboard in classroom activities. (KHR)

Describes four learning characteristics that make learning and doing mathematics difficult for students with special needs. Discusses instructional strategies that make learning and doing mathematics attainable for these students in the context of a vignette based on real-life experiences. (YDS)

Discusses examples from research of how students' misconceptions underlie their difficulties in interpreting kinematics graphs, possible underlying causes, and promising remedies. (KHR)

Explores why it is impossible to make a square from six tangram pieces and, in the process, develops insight into the nature of learning mathematics as well as strategies for teaching. (YDS)

Assesses students' geometric thinking through an action research task that uses problems from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Improves students' conceptual understanding of geometric properties and measurement by exploring complex figures, perimeter, and area concepts. (YDS)

Studied how Swedish schools try to promote students' reading through examination of school-run booktalk conversations held by students in grades 4 through 7. Observations of eight groups show the conflict between the stated aim of promoting reading for pleasure and both tasks presented to students and problems in synchronizing the reading of…

An experimental group studied Macbeth in an independent, constructivist setting using multimedia; the control group studied traditionally. Eleven of 23 experimental students and 2 of 21 in the traditional class failed. In an experiment with Hamlet, the results were reversed. Students were most successful when the teacher was actively involved,…

Notes that in teacher education, stories can be used to help teachers focus on professional practices and beliefs. Contends that this instructional tool acknowledges the influence that lived experiences have in teachers' current and future educational decision-making. Explores how pre- and inservice teachers' understanding of university course…

Notes that the Internet allows students and teachers to participate in literacy events and access reading resources previously unavailable to them. Describes a study designed to explore literacy researchers' and innovative teachers' thinking about the benefits of Internet-based curricular activities and instructional practices used to enhance…

Explains San Diego County Office of Education's "Reading in Secondary Education" (RISE), an online series of nine professional development modules for secondary teachers and administrators, intended for use in staff development groups or by individual educators. Notes that the program combines video, Web information, lesson plans, and Internet…