During 1970-71, the Select Subcommittee on Education of the House Committee on Education and Labor held 8 days of hearings on the establishment of a National Institute of Education. This document is the second of three appendixes on the hearings and contains essays by scholars who have studied the aims of education, the issues of educational…

Asserts that research and foundational deficits revealed in the literature may be contributing to the lack of consistent and widespread art criticism instruction. (JDH)

Surveys the research into virtual reality (VR) and focuses on the implications of immersive virtual worlds for learning and teaching. Topics include how VR differs from other forms of interactive multimedia, VR and the development of educational theory and methodology, and case studies in educational VR research. (Author/LRW)

Investigates the field of science to examine the neglect of its interrelationship with gender and how this weakness can be resolved. States it is vital to understand the methods and sources used in educational history when examining science and gender as an intellectual part of educational history. (KDR)

Discusses the perspectives of historical text as evolving from respective historical representation. Explores methods of educational history through writings, documents, biographies, autobiographies, issues of source and technicalities, and historian viewpoints. Offers that historian's voices must be positioned critically and reflectively at the…

Focuses on interviews with immigrants used for an undergraduate sociology course designed to help students learn about contradictions and commonalities of the educational experiences of immigrants. Finds that students demonstrated understanding based on the interviews; and that there is a need for international awareness among students entering…

Discusses the early 19th century educational history of Irish charter schools from the students' perspective. Suggests that further student input be included in research for consensus sake. Notes differences in teaching and discipline applied for male and female students. Concludes student views stimulated a more carefully supervised,…

TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH CLASSROOM TEACHING EXPERIENCE CAN MAKE EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY A MORE USEFUL COURSE, A TEACHER AIDE PROGRAM WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE LABORATORY EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED IN EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY COURSES. IT WAS HOPED THIS STUDY WOULD GIVE INDICATION OF THE VALUE OF OTHER KINDS OF LABORATORY EXPERIENCES TO…

This study was conducted: (1) to provide data on whether student achievement can be influenced significantly by providing students, in advance of instruction, information on what will be expected of them as an outcome of instruction and, (2) to investigate various ways of communicating to students, in writing, that which is to be learned in class.…

IN THIS COMPILATION OF ABSTRACTS OF 78 DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS AND MASTER'S THESES PREPARED AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY IN ADULT EDUCATION AND RELATED FIELDS, 48 PERCENT COME FROM THE FIELD OF EDUCATION (EDUCATION, HOME AND FAMILY LIFE, AND SOCIAL WELFARE), 6 PERCENT FROM PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY, AND THE REMAINDER FROM OTHER DEPARTMENTS. RESEARCH…

Explores the relationship between English canal boat children and compulsory education requirements during 1900-1940. Focuses primarily on the 1900-1914 era and the difficulty of educating canal boat children. Discusses the Living In Committee Report and the Canal Boats Bill. Concludes this era contributed to progress in educating travelling…

Examines a proposal for new directions in research related to the content literacy training given to college developmental educators. Includes specific suggestions for long-term, collaborative research related to class size, types of tracking and testing, determining the audience receiving training, and changing definitions of text and literacy.…

Cautioning against the tendency of educational researchers to overgeneralize their results, the author discusses three variables important to research on methods of instruction: the characteristics of the learner (six are listed), characteristics of the subject matter, and time. Differentiation between major research efforts and purely practical…

This paper suggests that considering fundamental issues in educational research may help researchers conceptualize more productive research methodologies for computer based instruction (CBI). Inconsistent findings and methodological shortcomings in media research, including CBI, raise the possibility that current research methodologies may be…