Describes presentations at Appalachian Regional Commission's (ARC) 25th anniversary conference, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 1990. Conference focused on youth leadership. More than 100 youth from 13 states attended, presenting 16 ARC-funded demonstration projects, including recreation programs, leadership development, theater…

Development of the Student Product Assessment Form to evaluate formally the products of students in gifted and talented education programs is described. Results from content validation procedures, reliability tests, scoring, and interrater agreement indicate that the assessment tool is both reliable and valid. (Author/JDD)

Describes a successful project in which ninth grade remedial reading students designed, wrote, and illustrated a Student Orientation Handbook for their high school. (SR)

Effects of student-generated versus teacher-generated sets of examples and the types of examples generated (rational set versus nonrational set) on coordinate concept acquisition were studied for 96 undergraduates. Rational examples and student-generated examples do not enhance concept acquisition. Possible explanations are explored. (SLD)

Examines innovative ways for school libraries to collect organize, and make effective use of student work. Highlights include recognizing original work; student writing; student posters of favorite books or characters; databases for organizing information; videotaping of students' activities and presentations; electronic products; events;…

Discusses the approach of using student projects to teach information retrieval. Examines projects completed by students at Mercyhurst College (Erie, Pennsylvania), and includes examples of their work. Discusses problems encountered, weaknesses exposed, and strengths of the project genre overall. Other issues raised include methods for reinforcing…

This article examines the current phenomenon of blogging from an archival point of view. To better understand the nature of blogs, the author conducted an informal survey of bloggers at Princeton Theological Seminary. The results of this survey show that blogs represent a dynamic but ephemeral new form of electronic record and writing practice.…

Translating basic sciences into a clinical framework has been approached through the implementation of various teaching techniques aimed at using a patient case scenario to facilitate learning. These techniques present students with a specific patient case and lead the students to discuss physiological processes through analysis of provided data…

This book leads students through a journey of hands-on investigations of skill-based estimation. The 30 lessons in the book are grouped into four units: Holding Hands, The Real Scoop, Container Calculations, and Estimeasurements. In each unit children work with unique, real materials intended to build an awareness of number, quantity, and…

Part of a series of books written and illustrated by the students of Northland School Division, Alberta, Canada, this anthology of senior high school student writing honors the spirit and authentic voice of young people. The writing selections in the book are made accessible to educators so that a bridge of understanding can continue to be built…

Graduate students often have difficulty understanding the concepts behind the various models of instructional design (ID). In order to help students in an introductory ID course come to a better understanding of the similarities and differences between various instructional models, the models were developed into dynamic computer graphics to use…

The road to competence in writing is best paved with joyful experiences, especially early experiences with writing in the elementary school. One such experience is writing a story and making a beautiful cloth-bound book. Materials needed, which are easily obtained, are: (1) a commercially produced material called Heat-N-Bond (Ultra); (2) mat board…

This book offers information and step-by-step instructions on establishing a publishing center in schools, churches, or community groups and includes reproducible forms. The book gives ideas for such a center, a joint effort between volunteers, students, and teachers, that lets children publish their stories in a professional looking manner. The…

A yearbook development project was designed to provide graduating General Educational Development (GED) program students with special recognition and praise for their educational accomplishments. A student committee was formed to have responsibility for the entire project from design to finished product. The committee undertook the following…

This compilation presents material related to a Library Literacy program, which was designed to collect, publish, and distribute the writing of new adult readers and whose target audience was students, teachers, tutors and librarians involved in library-based literacy programs in Massachusetts. The first part of the compilation presents the final…