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Smyth, Joanne B.; MacKenzie, James C. – Public Services Quarterly, 2006
This study uses virtual reference transcripts for which patrons completed exit surveys to seek any correlations between user and librarian satisfaction within virtual reference transactions. By analyzing transcripts with a focus on three elements-technology performance, preferred reference practices, and the demonstrated communication levels of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reference Services, Electronic Libraries, Computer Mediated Communication
Shafer, Kathryn G. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2008
This paper reports the results of a doctoral research pilot study that paired a researcher with an experienced classroom teacher for a 12-week time span with the goal of effectively integrating the use of Geometer's Sketchpad (GSP) into the classroom teacher's practice. Using a teacher development experiment, the researcher created an…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Doctoral Programs
Sanders, Robert – CALICO Journal, 2006
Language production of Spanish students using synchronous CMC (chat) during class time was compared with that of students meeting outside of class. The study included about 100 participants enrolled in 10 sections of a first-quarter Spanish course at a US university. Students in the control group spent 30 minutes of their weekly class time in…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication
Nchindila, Bernard – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2007
This paper reports on the findings about a mentoring project that failed. It is based on a case study in which the writer participated as a mentor of the staff members of the South African Department of Labour. In 2002, the South African Department of Labour (DoL) published a tender ref: Services/ta/cst/p1/wp3 for Communications Skills Training…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Success, Online Courses, Mentors
McKnight, Sue – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2005
This paper describes the history of the project to establish the Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library at Deakin University's Geelong Waterfront Campus. It builds upon and updates a previous paper on this topic. It provides a brief summary of why the Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library was established and the journey of building support for…
Descriptors: Library Development, Government Publications, Concept Formation, College Programs
Daniel, Marie-France; Splitter, Laurance; Slade, Christina; Lafortune, Louise; Pallascio, Richard; Mongeau, Pierre – Australian Journal of Education, 2004
We aim to clarify Matthew Lipman's definition of critical thinking. The research project was conducted during a complete school year among eight groups of pupils from three cultural contexts: Australia, Mexico and Quebec. We worked in an inductive manner, inspired by the grounded theory approach, and analysed transcripts of the pupils' exchanges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Definitions, Thinking Skills, Transcripts (Written Records)
Campbell, Katy; Schwier, Richard A.; Kenny, Richard F. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
In this paper we propose a view of instructional design practice in which the instructional designer is an agent of social change at the personal, relational, and institutional levels. In this view designers are not journeymen workers directed by management, but act in purposeful, value based ways with ethical knowledge, in social relationships…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Social Change, Ethics
Kwon, Nahyun – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2006
Introduction: This study investigated unmonitored referrals in a nationwide, collaborative chat reference service. Specifically, it examined the extent to which questions are referred, the types of questions that are more likely to be referred than others, and the level of user satisfaction with the referrals in the collaborative chat reference…
Descriptors: User Satisfaction (Information), Referral, Library Services, Reference Services
Veque, Catherine – Babel, 2006
This article is the second part of a report on research that examined immersion language teachers' strategies to modify their speech in order to maintain use of the target language. As described in the first part in "Babel," Volume 40, Number 2 (Veque, 2005), this classroom-based research, undertaken at Methodist Ladies College (MLC) in…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Classroom Communication, Immersion Programs, Syntax
Tennant, Geoff – Education 3-13, 2004
This article looks in some detail at the transcript of a mathematics lesson in exploring the nature of low-level disruption in schools. This is preceded by a brief theoretical overview of behavioural issues, aimed at giving a context for the consideration of low-level disruption. The discussion of the issues arising from the analysis of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics, Mathematics Education
Dougherty, Chrys – Data Quality Campaign, 2008
A growing number of educators and policymakers have begun focusing on the goal of preparing all or nearly all high school students for college and other advanced postsecondary learning opportunities. To meet this goal, states are adopting policies to encourage nearly all students, not just those seeking entry into competitive four-year colleges,…
Descriptors: College Preparation, High School Students, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education
Black, Alison – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2005
Asynchronous discussion allows students to read and respond "out-of-time." This form of online discussion, as experienced in a college literacy course, creates a text of talk that has the potential to be reflective given the freedom participants have in their response time. However, students often struggle with reflection. Instructors…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Discussion Groups
Van Bramer, Joan – Literacy Teaching and Learning, 2003
The role of social context and the nature of human interaction provide rich resources for the study of learning and human cognition. In order to understand these elements more fully, it is important to consider the language in use within these contexts. The early intervention Reading Recovery is grounded in the belief that the conversation between…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Grade 1
Barnett, Claire L. – Healthy Schools Network, Inc., 2007
This paper presents a transcript of the speech delivered by the author at the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Hearing, Washington, DC, May 15, 2007. The author talked about how the Healthy Schools Network works to ensure that every child will have an environmentally healthy school that is clean and in good repair. The organization…
Descriptors: School Buildings, Child Health, Physical Environment, Clearinghouses
Sulaiman, Tajularipin; Noordin, Nooreen – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2005
The purpose of this research was to examine the extent to which teachers use question levels in the teaching of investigation skills. Six question levels based on Bloom's Taxonomy (1956) were examined in this study which included knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and affective as well (Ghazali Mustapha, 1998).…
Descriptors: Investigations, Discovery Learning, Thinking Skills, Interviews