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Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, 2006
The mission of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools (CYFS) is to conduct research that improves our understanding of optimal ways that parents, teachers and other service providers in family, school and community contexts can promote the intellectual and socio-emotional development and behavioral adjustment of…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Community Colleges, Annual Reports, Educational Research
Goodman, Gay – Teacher Education and Practice, 2006
Educational and legislative reforms occurring in the last half of the 20th century appear to have been initiated in response to the writings of John Dewey. The field of teacher education has responded to these reforms by adopting many new models of teacher preparation, technologies, and innovative best practices. Many of these changes were…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Change, Student Diversity, Cultural Differences
Hetzel, June; Soto-Hinman, Ivannia – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
"No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) attempts to ensure educational equity for all K-12 students. However, for the conceptual goals of NCLB to become reality, pre-service teacher training models must be modified to include a deeper understanding of individual differences and how these play out in classroom dynamics. The "Three Literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy, Achievement Gap, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Berk, Laura E.; Winsler, Adam – 1995
This book is an effort to introduce early childhood educators to Vygotsky's perspective, research on young children that has been stimulated by this perspective, and current educational practices emanating from it. The discussion is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of Vygotsky's life, the social conditions in which his…
Descriptors: Child Development, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development
Foster, Patrick N. – 1994
The history of industrial arts (IA) and technology education (TE) was examined to identify those points in the history of industrial education in the United States that have been interpreted in multiple ways or that are contradicted by other historical information. The evolution of IA was traced from the time period leading up to the 1920s, with…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs
Garcia, Eugene E. – 1993
This chapter addresses the theoretical and empirical knowledge bases related to bilingualism and second language acquisition in Chicano children. Research concerning bilingual acquisition has found that the linguistic, cognitive, and social characters of the bilingual child develop simultaneously. Furthermore, all three areas of development are…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes
Zionts, Paul – 1996
This book examines intervention with children having emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD), through the use of many case studies, activities, and examples. The text is organized in a developmental manner, with behavioral interventions recommended for lower grades and cognitive-behavioral approaches recommended for older students. The first unit…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification
Hawkins, William A. – 1995
This report examines issues in the low achievement of American students in mathematics, with emphasis on the low representation of minority students in this field. American myths about mathematics which emphasize the importance of innate ability rather than hard work are seen as reinforcing racial and gender stereotypes about who can do…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Standards, Academically Gifted, Access to Education
Statistics Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1995
The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was a collaborative effort by seven governments and three intergovernmental organizations to describe and compare the literacy skills of people from Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each country drew a probability sample from which results…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Comparative Analysis
Honeywell, Inc., Minneapolis, MN. – 1994
A nationwide survey was conducted to solicit input from a random sample of junior and senior high school students (N=250) and teachers (N=258) regarding violence in the schools. This report presents a summary of survey results under five headings. The first, perceived seriousness of violence, indicated that one in three teachers and one in four…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Attribution Theory, Class Size, Discipline
Chen, Yueh-miao – 1994
This paper discusses the origin and philosophy of the whole language movement, focusing on the learning theory, language attitudes, language acquisition, and reading processes employed by the approach. The roles of teachers, learners, parents, and student evaluation in the whole language approach are then examined. The paper then addresses how…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Educational Philosophy
Nabors, Leslie K., Ed. – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1996
Five papers in diverse areas of linguistics in education are presented. "Second Language Learning through Interaction: Multiple Perspectives" (Teresa Pica) looks at the variety of theoretical approaches to interaction in second language learning, and how an interactionist perspective lends weight to a number of theories.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Education, Applied Linguistics, Class Activities
Cenoz, Jasone; Valencia, Jose F. – 1996
A study comparing the request strategies of native and non-native speakers of English and Spanish is reported. Subjects were 29 American and 78 European students with varied first languages, enrolled in English and Spanish courses at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Data were obtained using a general background questionnaire and a…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences
Lyerla, Rob L.; Elmore, Patricia B. – 1996
The prediction of academic success of undergraduate students using an item response theory partial credit model adjusted grade point average (IRTGPA) is presented and its results are compared to those from an unweighted grade point average (GPA). The sample included 2,444 freshmen admitted in the fall of 1987 to 681 courses at a large midwestern…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen
Schneider, Elke – 1993
This thesis focuses on the transferability of grammatical competence to grammatically correct performance in the future tense in 10th grade German students who were learning English as a Second Language. The goal was to suggest an empirical contribution to the issue of whether implicit or explicit knowledge of grammatical rules or grammatical…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, German