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Gaither, Milton – Theory and Research in Education, 2009
This article first examines why the homeschooling movement in the USA emerged in the 1970s, noting the impact of political radicalism both right and left, feminism, suburbanization, and public school bureaucratization and secularization. It then describes how the movement, constituted of left- and right-wing elements, collaborated in the early…
Descriptors: Protestants, Home Schooling, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Belland, Brian R.; Glazewski, Krista D.; Ertmer, Peggy A. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2009
The literature on the use of problem-based learning in K-12 settings has traditionally focused on gifted and average students. However, mainstreaming is placing increasing numbers of students with special needs in general education classrooms. This case study examined how members of a small group in a mainstreamed seventh grade science class…
Descriptors: Mainstreaming, Problem Based Learning, Case Studies, Middle School Students
Sachkova, M. E. – Russian Education and Society, 2008
The purpose of this research was to study the characteristics of the intragroup relations between the middle-status adolescents in a student group and the other status categories. It is assumed that the social and psychological portrait of an open adolescent student group, the character of the orientation and the level of its development, and the…
Descriptors: Personality, Adolescents, Social Status, Group Behavior
Larson, Charles U. – Speech Monographs, 1971
Study suggests that if a leader is present in a group, the overall group attention span is extended and the group is able to concentrate its discussion on a single idea for longer periods of time. (Author/MS)
Descriptors: Group Behavior, Leadership, Responses
Kimmerle, Joachim; Cress, Ulrike – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2008
A common challenge in many situations of computer-supported collaborative learning is increasing the willingness of those involved to share their knowledge with other group members. As a prototypical situation of computer-supported information exchange, a shared-database setting was chosen for the current study. This information-exchange situation…
Descriptors: Databases, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Mediated Communication
Mazen, Abdelmagid; Herman, Susan; Ornstein, Suzyn – Journal of Management Education, 2008
This article describes the rationale for and use of a class innovation the authors call "professor delight." This inexpensive, high-yield concept allows students and professors to enact their understanding of citizenship throughout the term, and often beyond. The authors explain the concept, describe its implementation in class, and link it to the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, College Faculty, College Students, Teacher Student Relationship

DeGrenier, Armand H. – Journal of Education, 1971
Descriptors: Change Agents, Group Behavior, Models
Garmston, Robert J. – Journal of Staff Development, 2004
This article discusses some strategies and principles of intervention that will lead to a more effective group behavior and enable the group to be proactive about improving its work. The author also discusses some of the common challenges and reliable interventions faced by a facilitator: (1) Redirect conversational altitudes; (2) Correct problems…
Descriptors: Intervention, Group Behavior, Group Dynamics
Auyero, Javier; Moran, Timothy Patrick – Social Forces, 2007
This article combines a statistical analysis with qualitative research to investigate the dynamics of collective violence in one of its most recurrent forms--the food riot. Using an original dataset collected by the authors on 289 food riot episodes occurring in Argentina in December 2001, the article argues for the need to dissect the local,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics, Group Behavior, Violence
Eastin, Matthew S. – Human Communication Research, 2007
Most research on violent video game play suggests a positive relationship with aggression-related outcomes. Expanding this research, the current study examines the impact group size, game motivation, in-game behavior, and verbal aggression have on postgame play hostility. Consistent with previous research, group size and verbal aggression both…
Descriptors: Play, Video Games, Aggression, Psychological Patterns
Raudenbush, Stephen W.; Martinez, Andres; Spybrook, Jessaca – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2007
Interest has rapidly increased in studies that randomly assign classrooms or schools to interventions. When well implemented, such studies eliminate selection bias, providing strong evidence about the impact of the interventions. However, unless expected impacts are large, the number of units to be randomized needs to be quite large to achieve…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Employment Programs, Intervention, Group Behavior
Jonett, Connie L. Foye – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The Motivation of Teachers to Assume the Role of Cooperating Teacher This study explored a phenomenological understanding of the motivation and influences that cause experienced teachers to assume pedagogical training of student teachers through the role of cooperating teacher. The research question guiding the study was what motivates teachers to…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Incentives, Focus Groups, Motivation
Bowes, David; Johnson, Jay – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2008
This paper describes classroom experiments in cooperative behavior as examples of experiential learning in economics classes. Several games are briefly discussed and a new game in cartel behavior is presented. In this game, Students make production decisions as a cartel and earn revenues based on their own output decision and the output decision…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Classroom Environment, Student Behavior, Experiential Learning
Apple, Michael W. – Theory and Research in Education, 2007
In this article I respond to the analyses of "Educating the 'Right' Way" and "The State and the Politics of Knowledge" that were given by Stephen Ball, Russell Fox and Antonio Novoa. I situate the development of the kinds of argument that these books make, in the larger corpus of my work and in the growth of neoliberal, neoconservative,…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Ideology, Intellectual Experience
Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E.; Barrows, Howard S. – Cognition and Instruction, 2008
This article describes a detailed analysis of knowledge building in a problem-based learning group. Knowledge building involves increasing the collective knowledge of a group through social discourse. For knowledge building to occur in the classroom, the teacher needs to create opportunities for constructive discourse in order to support student…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Problem Based Learning, Inquiry, Group Behavior