We wish to document the use of important teaching strategies and to cast them in a form that will optimize their usefulness for teachers and curriculum developers. From expert think-aloud protocols, we have identified a number of strategies for evaluating and modifying explanatory mental models. Analyzing a model-based high school science curriculum to see whether this set of strategies might a...

Studies over the past three decades have shown that learning difficulties are not only determined by neurological disorders, but also by motivational and/or socio-cognitive factors Among these factors, implicit theories of intelligence (also referred to as conceptions, mindsets or beliefs about intelligence) are key elements. The belief that intelligence is fixed (entity theory), as opposed to ...

This paper examines the objectives, content and methods of Comparative Industrial Relations courses in Australian and New Zealand universities. It identifies changes in the approaches to teaching the subject since a 1990 survey. Using 25 course outlines at both undergraduate and postgraduate level from 15 universities, the paper examines some of the choices lecturers face-selection of countries...

This article is widely cited. In the first half of the article, the authors demonstrate the situative nature of learning and the problem with school learning. They argue that knowledge acquisition cannot be separated from doing and that just plain folks solve problems within the contexts and frameworks that created them using the tools that these specific contexts and frameworks provide. Knowle...

Active learning approaches to teaching mathematics and science are known to increase student learning and persistence in STEM disciplines, but do not yet reach most undergraduates. To broadly engage college instructors in using these research-supported methods will require not only professional development and support for individuals, but the engagement of departments and institutions as organi...

This paper investigates service provisions in community languages offered by Manchester City Council and agencies working alongside to find out whether there is an explicit language policy in Manchester, how such a policy is formulated, how it functions, and how it is reflected in education. Data was collected through interviews with different personnel in MCC, focus group discussions with comm...

Despite strong support for the study of how implicit beliefs emotion and achievement goals affect emotion, none have studied these in context teaching. This aims to examine emotions teaching through goal orientation. study, wherein a total 428 teachers from public elementary high schools Iligan City, Lanao Del Norte were chosen cluster random sampling, gathered data use questionnaires: question...