Identifies key rules, procedures, routines, and activities from teacher effectiveness research and explains how to use them in the creation of process materials--teacher-made materials that assist students in identifying and using behaviors necessary to learning. (FL)

Written for the wide range of practitioners working with young children, this book offers guidance on both the theory and the practical management of drama in the early years. The book emphasizes the relationship between pretend play and the cognitive and affective development of young children, and highlights children's need to experience quality…

The paper suggests that current ways of thinking about disability are inadequate, both theoretically and as a basis for social policy. Reasons for the inadequacy are explored, and the final section of the paper begins to suggest a social theory of disability. (Author/CL)

The notion of mediating the environment is examined and related to the unique developmental mode of young blind children. Emphasis is placed on the use of systematic conceptualization of development and mediation in relation to each other. Stages of mediation are identified, and three types of mediation are presented and illustrated. (Author/CL)

The paper contrasts two assumptions about the nature of autism and discusses their implications for parent services. A deficit model of parental pathology and definition of the parent as patient is seen to lack empirical support. Growing recognition of biological etiology is discussed and alternative definitions of the parent or family as focus…

The article demonstrates how professional and theoretical perspectives (including psycholinguistics, behaviorist, and information processing perspectives) significantly influence the manner in which central auditory processing is viewed, assessed, and remediated. (Author/CL)

The article examines issues related to theory, methods, and validity of cognition research related to giftedness. Current approaches are reviewed, including metacognition and structural learning. (CL)

The author highlights key issues raised in a seminar on learning to read and suggests the need for formulating a theory of reading development as well as further understanding of the linguistic processes underlying reading ability and disability. (CL)

Getting your doctorate part-time or via the computer makes it difficult to schedule meetings with your advisor, use the library's resources, or discuss your topic ideas and dissertation difficulties with fellow students. Problems unique to nontraditional graduate students are alleviated with this easy-to-use dissertation guide. In sections devised…

Examines the two worlds of word processing: a theoretical world found in textbooks and magazines, and a "real" world found in offices where some form of word processing has been introduced. Suggestions for business teachers are included. (CT)

Reliability maximizing weights are related to theoretically specified true score scaling weights to show a constant relationship that is invariant under separate linear tranformations on each variable in the system. Test theoretic relations should be derived for the most general model available and not for unnecessarily constrained models.…

Argues that merging theory and method benefits rhetorical criticism, but that a theory-method distinction is justified on pedagogical grounds. Analyzes Francis Schaeffer's "A Christian Manifesto" to illustrate how a theory-method distinction can inform rhetorical criticism. (MM)

Discusses the need for a model for technical documents that expresses the relationship between the various technical genres and their rhetorical contexts. Advocates the use of James Britton's model, with its criteria for classifying documents as well as its rationale for a scope and sequence for teaching technical writing. (SR)

This book reviews the literature on reflection, explores the relationship between reflection and learning, and discusses how reflection can be used to improve learning and professional practice. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) common-sense and developmental stage approaches to reflection; (2) the philosophies of Dewey and…

In this second volume of "The Soul of Educational Leadership" series, editors Paul D. Houston, Alan M. Blankstein, and Robert W. Cole offer creative perspectives on the challenges of reframing leadership practice. Presenting key strategies from leadership experts such as Thomas Sergiovanni and Dennis Sparks, this compact resource combines…