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Richardson, John T. – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2015
Marton and Säljö ("Br J Educ Psychol" 46:4-11, 1976a) described deep-level and surface-level processing in experiments in which students read and recalled academic texts. They did not discuss whether levels of processing had any counterparts in students' everyday studies. However, their article is often credited as the source of the…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Phenomenology, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
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Nash, Mary – Higher Education Quarterly, 2011
In 1963, the University of Sussex inaugurated an innovative Early Leavers Scheme in response to two government reports which confirmed that it was still the norm for talented working-class children to leave school aged 15 or 16 and indicated that the hopes of the 1944 Education Act were as yet unfulfilled. This article explores what the scheme has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Experiments, Nontraditional Students
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Sutherland, Douglas – History of Education, 2009
This paper examines the educational projects of Patrick Geddes in late-Victorian Scotland. Initially a natural scientist, Geddes drew on an eclectic mix of social theory to develop his own ideas on social evolution. For him education was a vital agent of social change which, he believed, had the potential to develop active citizens whose…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Sociocultural Patterns, Extension Education, Educational Philosophy
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Treise, Debbie; Schumann, David – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 1995
States that advertising educators have been concerned with the lack of cooperation between advertising and marketing disciplines. Describes a cross-functional educational experiment in which two instructors (one from marketing and one from advertising) formed cross-functional teams for two projects. Concludes that the experiment was successful,…
Descriptors: Advertising, Educational Experiments, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
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Murphy, James J.; Cardenas, Juan-Camilo – Journal of Economic Education, 2004
Managing local environmental resources with moderately enforced government regulations can often be counterproductive, whereas nonbinding communications can be remarkably effective. The authors describe a classroom experiment that illustrates these points. The experiment is rich in its institutional settings and highlights the challenges that…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Microeconomics, Natural Resources, Game Theory
Duke, Benjamin C., Ed. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1963
The primary purpose of this project was to compile, translate, and publish educational media research material from the major Asian countries and to make that information available in the United States. Educational media research and experimentation is interpreted to include experimental programming, testing, evaluation, and use of all the newer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Surveys, International Education