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Duckworth, Kenneth; And Others – 1986
The relationship between high school students' feelings of efficacy and efforts to study and teachers' classroom testing practices was examined. Questionnaires were administered in four high schools in biology, geometry, English, and United States history classes; a total of 69 classes participated. Some teachers were also interviewed. Students'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Educational Testing, High School Students
Herrmann, Andrea W. – 1985
Creating a writing workshop atmosphere using computers in the English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom improves the opportunities for integrating all language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The computer also represents a new way of learning, emphasizing students' problem solving strategies and learning processes. Teachers…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperation, English (Second Language)
Kidwell, Clara Sue – 1986
There are no quick and easy tips to motivating American Indian students into graduate education. The decision to make a commitment of time and money to graduate training, particularly at the doctoral level, and the ability to succeed in such a program, is affected by a number of factors: (1) parental and peer encouragement; (2) awareness of career…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, American Indian Education, American Indians
Adams-Smith, Diana E. – 1984
Although a basic premise of higher education is that students must take the primary responsibility for their own learning, problems arise when the focus throughout elementary and secondary schooling is on passive, rote learning with the student totally dependent on the teacher and text, as in Islamic schools. The educational shock experienced in…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, College Students
National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC. – 1984
Ways to improve undergraduate education are suggested, based on the work of the Study Group on the Conditions of Excellence in American Higher Education. After considering shared values and long-term goals for American higher education, attention is directed to both the achievements and problems of colleges. Major themes are that student…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Change Strategies, College Curriculum, College Faculty
ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, Boulder, CO. – 1983
Commissioned papers to help the National Commission on Excellence in Education make the recommendations for educational improvement for its report "A Nation at Risk" are cited in this annotated listing. The report presents recommendations in five areas: content, standards and expectations, time, teaching, and leadership and fiscal…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Curriculum, Educational Change
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. – 1982
A study assessed vocational agricultural programs throughout Texas as they were perceived by the female students enrolled in them. During the study, researchers administered questionnaires to a randomly selected sample of 735 female students from 64 schools representing the 10 geographic areas of Texas. The students were asked to respond to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Curriculum
Garcia, Eugene E., Ed. – 1983
The nine articles are divided into three general topics: language, cognition, and social development. Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez discusses strategies in early second language acquisition and their implications for bilingual instruction. Eugene E. Garcia, Lento Maez, and Gustavo Gonzales examine the incidence of language switching in Spanish/English…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Code Switching (Language)
Kahle, Jane Butler – 1984
Research from sociology, science education, mathematics education, and psychology, as well as data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) indicate some of the causes of and potential solutions for sex inequities in science education. NAEP has indicated that 13- and 17-year-old girls have strong negative attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classroom Environment, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
Department of Labor, Washington, DC. – 1989
Demographic trends, technological change, and increased international competition are creating shortages of skilled workers and an excess of unskilled workers. In response to this growing crisis, the Commission on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency made 44 recommendations for a substantial, ongoing national commitment to investment in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Responsibility, Corporate Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Roy, Gisele – 1980
Project CAPABLE (Classroom Action Program: Aim: Basic Learning Efficiency) is a classroom approach which integrates the basic learning skills with content. The goal of the project is to use basic learning skills to enhance the learning of content and at the same time use the content to teach basic learning skills. These monthly reports explain how…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development, Comprehension
Cole, Lorraine – 1987
In the last decade there has been a noticeable decrease in the number of minorities recruited and retained in graduate professional education programs for human communication sciences and disorders and in the number of minority members of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). A number of causes have contributed to the decline,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), Asian Americans, Blacks
Heywood, John – 1982
In this book, information is provided to assist student teachers in planning and implementing lessons, at the secondary school level, through the use of advance organizers. Advance organizers are described as a form of mediating response which precedes a major learning task and provides meaning, structure, and organization to the task and links…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Discipline
Brubacher, John S. – 1982
Basic academic issues such as institutional objectives, educational ethics, and methods of academic decision-making are examined in light of significant new social, economic, legal, and educational developments in this revision of the 1977 edition of "On the Philosophy of Higher Education." Focus is on the tension between pure research and social…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Civil Liberties, Codes of Ethics, Collective Bargaining
Pace, C. Robert – 1984
The development and use of the College Student Experiences Questionnaire to assess the quality of students' effort and the attainment of college-related goals are discussed. The questionnaire covers college facilities (e.g., educational, cultural, and recreational), and personal/interpersonal experiences at college. Responses to 14 scales covering…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Attainment, Educational Facilities, Educational Objectives