Examined influence of training method and trainee age on performance during training in acquisition of computer software skills among 146 adult volunteers. Behavioral modeling training method yielded consistently superior computer software mastery compared with nonmodeling approach. Older trainees exhibited significantly lower performance than did…

Offers tips for teachers to develop a strategy to model literary elements used by authors of literature. Offers a modeling example of inferring characterization. Lists additional books that develop strong characters. (PRA)

Examines developmental differences of modeling and verbal rehearsal on children's performance of a sequential motor task. Results indicate that for facilitating motor skill acquisition in elementary school children verbal rehearsal strategies may be needed to supplement a visual model to help them selectively attend to relevant task components and…

The effectiveness of a modeling technique on the acquisition of long division was demonstrated with eight middle school learning-disabled students. The intervention included demonstration, imitation, and key guide words. (Author/DB)

Mathematical thinking as a style of thinking that is a function of particular operations, processes, and dynamics is explored. A descriptive model of mathematical thinking is presented and used to provide answers to whether mathematical thinking can be taught and how. (MNS)

Recommends borrowing the tools of protocol analysis and modeling from psychology as an effective way to teach writing as process. (JL)

The study investigated the effectiveness of participant modeling as a technique for teaching an educable mentally retarded 12-year-old a task that was considered high in avoidance (a modified forward dive). Participant modeling with self-directed performance at each step was successful in teaching the student a high avoidance diving task. (SBH)

Identifies three reading processes that instructors can model for college level developmental readers: what people do when they read; how people think and talk about what they read; and how people incorporate what they learn from their reading into their own lives. Presents examples and descriptions of modeling these processes. (RS)

This article describes an early childhood self-regulated metacognition program for underachieving gifted students. Teacher and peer modeling of such strategies as think-aloud, behavioral demonstration, and cuing of steps to efficient task accomplishment are outlined, with examples. Benefits of self-regulated learning strategies are reported from…

This paper addresses optimal strategies in teaching essential life and communication skills to children with Down syndrome, autism and other developmental delays. Evidence from the literature concerning the relative efficacy of hand-over-hand (self-modeling) in contrast to passive observational teaching techniques (e.g., video modeling) shows the…

Twenty-four trainee counselors were allocated to three treatment groups: no modeling, no feedback (NMF); modeling and feedback from the supervisor (MF); and feedback from the supervisor (F). Analysis of variance showed that MF was superior to NMF and F in teaching the skill of reflection of feeling. (Editor/SJL)

Discusses computer assisted learning and simulation modeling from a United Kingdom perspective. Highlights include modeling with the DMS (Dynamic Modelling System); modeling with STELLA; learning and teaching simulation modeling; educational development roles for learning technologists; and a list of relevant Web sites. (Contains 52 references.)…

Discusses a model for reading education courses in which students are treated as learners who are encouraged to engage actively in learning. Discusses appropriate prereading, during reading, postreading, and cooperative learning activities. Supports prevailing beliefs that teacher educators should model instructional approaches they expect their…

Directly compared effects of positive and negative models in counselor training. Results from 47 counselor trainee graduate students suggest that negative modeling can produce training outcomes similar to those achieved by positive models. Recommends further investigation of the role of negative modeling in counselor training and provides specific…

Comparison of 32 children (ages 5-7) with specific language impairments (SLI) and normally developing children matched for either age or language development found that the SLI children, unlike either control group, performed significantly better for morpheme production tasks in an imitation instruction condition than in a modeling condition.…