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Fullan, Michael G. – Educational Leadership, 1993
Moral purpose keeps teachers close to children's needs; change agentry causes them to develop better strategies for accomplishing their moral goals. Core capacities for building greater change capacity are personal vision-building, inquiry, mastery, and collaboration. Education faculties must redesign their programs to focus directly on developing…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Change Agents, Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Swineford, Lois A.; Holtan, Boyd D. – School Science and Mathematics, 1991
The activities of a teacher who developed and piloted an eclectic model in an eighth grade mathematics classroom are described. Peer tutoring, cooperative learning, and mastery learning elements were selected and combined into a classroom program designed to increase student mathematics success. (KR)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Mastery Learning
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Tobias, Randolf – NASSP Bulletin, 1992
Teachers can demystify mathematics and science and motivate African-American students by providing limitless opportunities to succeed in computation, problem solving, and comprehension within a structured environment. There is need for appropriate materials, teaching reinforcement, continuous monitoring of progress, and constant practice and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Curriculum Development, Educational Environment
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Brandt, Ron – Educational Leadership, 1994
Although both mastery learning and outcome-based education require students to meet certain criteria, OBE encourages students to assess themselves. Johnson City (New York) Schools stress three outcomes: academics, work and process skills, and attitudes. The key to Johnson City's success lies in clearly defining these desired outcomes, getting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Community Support, Daily Living Skills
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Bork, Alfred – Internet and Higher Education, 2000
Discusses the need for new learning materials and systems that will promote lifelong learning, based on fictional accounts of the future of learning. Considers tutorial learning, the use of computers, adaptive learning, mastery learning, distance learning, and hardware and software. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Computers, Distance Education
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Rudisill, Mary E.; Wall, Sarah J. – Teaching Elementary Physical Education, 2004
In order to meet the NASPE (2002) "Active Start" guidelines for preschool age children, it is important to consider a number of factors. Preschoolers should have plenty of unstructured as well as structured (planned) physical play throughout each day. They are quite capable physically and should accumulate considerable practice of their…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Role Models, Play, Preschool Children
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Justice, Laura M.; Ezell, Helen K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2004
Print referencing is an evidence-based strategy that may be used by speech-language pathologists and other early childhood specialists to enhance the emergent literacy skills of young children. Print referencing is a strategy implemented within the context of adult-child shared storybook reading interactions, and specifically refers to the use of…
Descriptors: Reference Materials, Emergent Literacy, Allied Health Personnel, Speech Language Pathology
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Henrich, Christopher C.; Wheeler, Crista M.; Zigler, Edward F. – NHSA Dialog, 2005
The EZ-Yale Personality Motivation Questionnaire (EZPQ) was used to measure motivation as a facet of school readiness in a sample of 133 children during the spring of their final year of Head Start. Three motivational constructs assessed by the EZPQ, academic mastery motivation, negative reaction tendency, and outerdirectedness, were associated…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Disadvantaged Youth, Learning Motivation, Emergent Literacy
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Bronson, Martha – Young Children, 2003
Providing children with a variety of play materials at different levels of challenge and in a variety of interest areas responds to children's individual differences and needs in the classroom. In this book excerpt, the author lists materials for play in the categories social and fantasy; exploration and mastery; music, art, and movement; and…
Descriptors: Play, Fantasy, Child Development, Individual Differences
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Peladeau, Normand; Forget, Jacques; Gagne, Francoys – American Educational Research Journal, 2003
This study examined the relative benefits of mastery learning, overlearning, and fluency-building instructions for academic performance and long-term retention. College students enrolled in introductory quantitative methods classes (n = 168) were asked to practice every week with a computerized flash-card program until they attained various…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mastery Learning, Student Attitudes, Retention (Psychology)
Salili, Farideh, Ed.; Hoosain, Rumjahn, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
The influence of culture on learning and motivation has been the topic of much research in recent years. Educational and psychological researchers are now aware that the findings of their studies may not apply to other cultures, and that in this age of globalization and multiculturalism it is very important to examine the applicability of…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Learning, Motivation
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Ommundsen, Yngvar – European Physical Education Review, 2006
This study examined the relationship of motivational climate and differential achievement goals to meta-cognitive self-regulation, regulation of effort, help-seeking and self-handicapping in physical education (PE). The sample consisted of 273 pupils (boys n = 125; girls n = 148) attending 10th grade PE classes in Norway. Both motivational…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Laney, James D.; And Others – 1995
This study explores the effects of cooperative and mastery learning methods, alone and in combination, on first and second grade students' learning and retention of basic economic facts. A 2 X 2 (cooperative X mastery) factorial design compared the achievement of 120 students randomly assigned by grade level stratification to one of four treatment…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Early Childhood Education, Economics
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1996
This document contains four learning standards for career development and occupational studies at three levels: elementary, intermediate, and commencement. The first section consists of these four standards: (1) career development, (2) integrated learning, (3a) universal foundation skills, and (3b) career majors. The format for displaying the…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Competence, Elementary Secondary Education
Archer, Jennifer; And Others – 1995
This study examined the role of the university lecturer in fostering the interplay between motivation, confidence, and cognition in students. The focus is on two theoretical frameworks: achievement goal theory for the motivational and confidence aspects and Vygotskian theory for aspects concerning educational development. Achievement goal theory…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Instruction, Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation
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