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Legally related religious challenges to public school materials, curricula, and instructional activities: The "Impressions" controversies, 1986-1994.
(1997)
The increase and subsequent decline of challenges based on occult content coincided with a large number of challenges to Holt, Rinehart and Winston's Impressions reading series, the first whole language reading series and ...
Ethos and the politics of habit: Class, character, and coercion in Aristotelian rhetorics.
(1998)
Middle-class professional ethos has undergone significant shifts from the "personality market" described by Erich Fromm and C. Wright Mills to the postmodern knowledge worker or "symbolic analyst" described by Robert Reich. ...
Implementing integrated learning systems in elementary classrooms.
(1997)
The findings of the study provided evidence that teacher perceptions about an ILS influenced implementation of the ILS. Highest levels of concern for respondents were at the awareness stage and second highest levels of ...
Cool Books for Tough Guys
(1994)
Subtitle: 50 Books Out of the Mainstream of Adolescent Literature That Will Appeal to Males Who Do Not Enjoy Reading
Basic police officer training in Oklahoma: An assessment of effectiveness and relevance.
(1997)
This study was undertaken to collect and analyze data that would assist in assessing the relevance and effectiveness of the entry level law enforcement officer training program in Oklahoma. Additionally, the study was ...
An investigation of meaningful understanding and effectiveness of the implementation of Piagetian and Ausubelian theories in physics instruction.
(1998)
This research suggested that Piaget and Ausubel used different terminology to describe learning yet these theories are similar. Further research is needed to validate this premise and validate the blending of the two theories.
Core knowledge in American schools: A portrait of contemporary curricular reform.
(1999)
This is a study of contemporary school reform in America. The object of the study is the Core Knowledge Movement, a content oriented curriculum reform initiative advocated by E.D. Hirsch Jr. and promoted by the Core Knowledge ...
Relationships among reasoning ability, meaningful learning, and computer-based instruction on students' understanding of Newton's laws.
(1999)
The purpose of this study was to better understand the nature and extent of students' understanding of Newtonian physics. This study investigated differential effects of three different instructional treatments (computer ...
An assessment of attitude change in preservice physical education majors after exposure to movement education.
(1998)
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of exposure before and after the 16-week course, Skills and Techniques of Movement, Exercise, and Fitness on preservice physical education majors' attitudes toward ...
An examination of factors influencing United States student perceptions of native and non-native United States teacher effectiveness.
(1998)
Future research directions for integrating intercultural communication and intracultural communication concerns are discussed. Implications for training non-native U.S. instructors and developing future programs to enable ...