While the high school dropout rate has shown steady improvement during the last decade, it is still unacceptably high among students of color. They make up a large percentage of the 3.3 million youths who have not completed H.S.; however, they are the least likely to take, complete, and pass GED tests. Concept mapping could offer for young urban adult learners the opportunity to make meaningful...

Since the 70s, foreign language departments have seen communicative competence as the desired outcome of the language learning process and have used communicative teaching approaches––mainly Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)––to achieve that goal. The increasing demands that learners face due to the spread of globalization have called into question the appropriateness of those goals and met...

ABSTRACT The author cites the arrival of the information age and considers its implications for special education. He suggests that special educators must build their information management skills. Four specific applications of microcomputers in special education are addressed: tool applications (in which students use mic,-ocomputer technology as personal assistive devices), computer astisted i...

As the global economy grew in the latter half of the 20th Century, the demand for the mobility of engineers greatly increased. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), an accreditation agency serving primarily the United States, began to look at engineering programs outside of the United States with the intent of establishing recognized reciprocit...

Zusammenfassung Literale Fähigkeiten des Lesens und Schreibens sind von zentraler Bedeutung für die Bildungsverläufe gesellschaftliche Partizipation Kindern Jugendlichen. Im einführenden Beitrag zum Themenheft Literalität Mehrsprachigkeit wird der Forschungsstand zur Entwicklung Förderung literaler bei mehrsprachig aufwachsenden Jugendlichen systematisch aufbereitet. Dabei sowohl auf den indivi...

PURPOSE This study explored Latino migrant/seasonal farmworkers' (MSFWs') adherence to hypertension treatment. DESIGN A cross-sectional correlational study was conducted. METHOD Forty-five Latino MSFWs from two farmworker health clinics completed Spanish versions of the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale, the Blood Pressure Knowledge Scale and Blood Pressure Self-Care Scale, the Perceived S...

This paper talks about the beginnings, development and currently used models of teaching information literacy in school libraries. The foundations of information literacy in Croatia have been set in early eighties of the 20 century by the general transformation of classic school libraries into multimedia centers. The program orientation of activities was focused on, in those days, innovative fo...

Recently, interest has grown in understanding how sociocultural processes inform the design and use of learning technologies. In 2006, I managed the design and piloting of a multilingual literacy learning software for youth and adults in rural South Africa. Drawing from observations of and informal interviews with twenty-six learners who piloted the software, I propose that the software provide...

With the development and adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for K-12, there has been a shift toward challenging students to demonstrate higher-order thinking skills. This shift includes specific goals in the area of information literacy (IL). Recently, however, as one of the authors reviewed student writing in her undergraduate pre-service and graduate teacher education classes ...