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Anderson, Kent C. – 1985
The Early Prevention of School Failure (EPSF) program developed by Dr. Luceille Werner is presented. The program is designed to identify and remediate developmental deficiencies of four-, five-, and six-year-old children and has been accepted in the National Diffusion Network as a nationally validated program. The main program components are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Curriculum Guides, Developmental Disabilities, Educational Change
Richardson, Glenn E. – 1982
Educational imagery is introduced as an innovative classroom technique that allows students to isolate themselves mentally and to apply their imaginations to teacher-directed scenarios to accomplish a variety of educational objectives. In this book, the rationale and procedures for using educational imagery with secondary school and college…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Educational Innovation
Whyte, Jean; Harland, Rosemary – 1981
A study investigated the proposition that males have a predominant tendency to encode visually when reading, whereas females tend to encode phonologically. Arabic symbols were used to teach a group of 24 college students to "read." Subjects were assigned randomly to one of two conditions: learning the symbols as "letters" one by one with the aid…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Higher Education, Learning Modalities
Drew, Dan; Reese, Stephen – 1981
The impact of news film on children's learning was investigated by presenting 193 fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh grade students with one of two versions of a newscast. The children viewed a videotape of a newscaster introducing film reports of six stories or listened to the newscaster reading the news stories. The children provided responses…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Films
Tyler, Joanna – 1979
This study examines the effects of readiness level and learning modality emphasis on the form discrimination performance of kindergarten children on training and transfer tasks. Forty-eight male and 48 female kindergarten children between the ages of 5.5 and 6.5 years participated in the study. The children were randomly selected from a group of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Discrimination Learning, Distinctive Features (Language), Kindergarten Children
Werner, Peter H.; Burton, Elsie C. – 1979
Action-oriented learning activities are focused on in this book which attempts to outline an approach for stimulating and motivating children to learn through movement. The book is divided into five parts, each dealing with an aspect of the elementary school curriculum. Part one is concerned with the language arts and is divided into three…
Descriptors: Art Education, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Language Arts
Wiesenfeld, Laura Adina – 1975
In order to develop a humanistic approach to evaluating faculty, a pilot study was conducted of 27 students and 14 instructors in an associate degree program for medical laboratory technicians. Selected personal dimensions of the sample population were examined to chart each individual's personality, theoretical learning preferences, modalities of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Evaluation Criteria, Faculty Evaluation, Humanism
Clement, Joseph David – 1975
To explore methods of visual communication as a supplement to bilingual education, 200 white male subjects were selected from a public school system in South Florida (100 from the first grade and 100 from the eighth grade) and were allowed to create visual statements from a standardized set of photos. Using primarily Latent Partition Analysis, the…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Bilingual Education, Educational Media, Elementary Education
King, Dwade Robert – 1975
This study compared 5 groups (45 each) of disadvantaged first grade children learning to read 16 basic sight vocabulary words. The subjects were enrolled in 1 of 16 classrooms on three campuses of a school district in Texas located on the southern border between the United States and Mexico. Furthermore, all spoke Spanish as their first language.…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Disadvantaged Youth
Maricopa County Community Coll. District, Tempe, AZ. Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction. – 1997
The Maricopa Community College District (MCCD) intends this document to serve as a starting point for focusing on the following major themes: (1) dialogue about learning, given that changes are occurring in and around the learning process; (2) a common understanding of learning as a complex process on order to provide a framework for dialogue; and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Role, Community Colleges, Culture
Moore, Linda Hamman – 2000
This study evaluated two developmental learning communities, named the Integrated Studies Communities ISC, at Parkland College in Illinois. The primary purpose of the study was to compare the students in the ISC with similar underprepared students in the regular curriculum. The ISC offers four linked courses, and participating students take them…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Community Colleges, Cooperative Planning, Developmental Programs
Cascadden, Tracey E.; Tull, Debra S.; Wood, Marcy B. – 1999
This paper describes the philosophy, implementation, and assessment of the Natural Sciences (NatSci) Program at the University of New Mexico which is designed to provide preservice elementary and middle school teachers with the understanding of science content and processes necessary to teach science confidently and competently in their future…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers

Hardy, Clifford A.; Mershon, Betty – Teacher Educator, 1980
To increase understanding of learning style preferences, a study was conducted in which the learning style preferences of students majoring in secondary education enrolled in two alternative field-based programs were compared to the learning style preferences of students enrolled in the traditional program. Three styles (independent,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College School Cooperation, Conventional Instruction, Education Majors
Blanton, Lloyd H.; And Others – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1980
Seven articles in this issue focus on the use of realia in instruction. Authors discuss reasons why realia effectively motivate students and enhance learning; the place of realia in supervised occupational experience programs; the importance of real-life experiences to vocational agriculture; and student teaching as a reality experience. (SK)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Classroom Techniques, Demonstrations (Educational), Experiential Learning
Ricketts, Mary – NJEA Review, 1980
Described are five approaches to teaching reading: Language Experience, Modified Alphabet, Linguistic, Programmed, and Basal. It is suggested that a good teacher, well trained, certified in his or her profession, an active participant in professional organizations, can teach reading successfully using almost any approach. (KC)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Elementary Education