Presents study results examining behavior associated with preservation and destruction of slowly regenerating natural resources by using commons dilemma simulation games. Reports that neither environmental concern nor proenvironmental behaviors were related to commons dilemma performance. Concludes that cooperation and competition were better…

Students with behavioral disorders (grades 4-9), regular education students, teachers, and parents (total n=383) completed the Adolescent Social Skills Survey. Students with behavioral disorders rated all items lower in importance than other groups, rated interpersonal skills higher than other skills on the survey, and rated compliance and…

Reports the establishment of links between Northern Ireland school science departments and other European schools through a special project. Survey results reveal that the benefits to teachers and students gained from these links extend beyond the science curriculum. (DDR)

Presents the Sports Scholars Awards to college students of color playing intercollegiate sports who maintain a 3.2 or higher grade point average, and who are active on campus or in the community. Profiles the two leading sports scholars of 1999, a female soccer player and a male basketball player. (MSE)

Examines relationships between students' motivational and epistemological perspectives--or personal frameworks for science learning--and their cognitive engagement with peers during collaborative knowledge-building tasks. Contains 91 references. (DDR)

Reviews the fundamental role of imagery in science and technology and our current knowledge of visual-spatial cognition. Results suggest that individual differences in perspectives should not be ignored. Contains 126 references. (DDR)

Reviews Sudia Paloma McCaleb's "Building Communities of Learners: A Collaboration among Teachers, Students, Families and Community," a recent book that talks about how literacy can be nurtured at home while parents and families can be brought into the schools. Compliments the book for its ability to connect complex ideas to the existing realities…

Addresses the question of whether membership in a Greek organization contributes to the drinking behaviors of college students. Research findings are divided into these major categories: drinking frequency; motivation; predicting Greek membership; culture of Greek life; perception bias; and consequences of drinking. Conclusions suggest that…

A graduate level research methods and statistics course offered on the World-Wide Web was evaluated relative to the traditional. With their consent, course members were randomly assigned to the two versions of the course for the first block of sessions. For the second block of sessions the groups crossed over to access the alternative version of…

Evaluation was conducted of the first year of a project designed to plan, implement, evaluate, and diffuse a comprehensive experience based career education (EBCE) curricular model through cooperation of four Wyoming school districts, the University of Wyoming College of Education, Project Wyoming Innovative Network Schools (WINS), and the Wyoming…

Background: The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of an early field experience program for undergraduate university students called classroom tutors in this project (CTs). Purpose: This study aims to measure the effects on CTs after their participation in Willing Workers in Classrooms (WWC). A second aim was to begin to develop a…

The authors explore the ways current curricula continue to frustrate parental and student goals in the classroom, focusing on three separate ethnographic studies of subjects from African American, Appalachian, and Latino backgrounds. The researchers determine that, despite the idiographic nature of their individual studies, many marginalized…

This article describes a university-kindergarten partnership project with teachers in four kindergartens to participate in four three-hour workshops and then to develop their own school-based environmental programs. The four teaching themes of the programs were Animals, Plants, Food and Green Angels. In each kindergarten, a core group of staff was…

This article details the ongoing collaboration between two teacher training providers in the UK and Finland in the development and use of portfolios to support reflective practice in teacher education programmes. The use of portfolios for assessment in teacher education has developed extensively over a number of years to support the student to…

Past research has focused on conflict and power between students and teachers from elementary school through high school. A study explored the long neglected area of the college environment and treated the classroom as a unique culture. The construct of challenge behavior is defined as student behaviors that are contrary to implicit or explicit…