Presents an approach aimed at enhancing learning by matching individual students' preferred cognitive styles to computer-based instructional (CBI) material. (Author/CCM)

Presents an overview of the origin of the industrial engineering discipline and how the subject was taught in the early stages of its development. Describes current changes in the curricula to meet new requirements in industry. (Author/CCM)

Introduces a developing intelligent medium aimed at filling the gap by means of modern information technologies. Finds that the medium can be used for training purposes in the engineering sciences as well as for solving problems in industrial places. (Author/CCM)

Describes the results of surveys of students' confidence in basic mathematics and the subsequent diagnostic testing of basic mathematical skills. Identifies learning needs and ways in which students can be supported. (Author/CCM)

Discusses the history of engineering education and engineering as a profession in Finland. Assesses the role of formally trained engineers in past and present Finnish industry. (Author/CCM)

Focuses on the current situation of engineering education in Israel, the debate over ways to manage it, and the prospects that a balanced education policy can bring for socioeconomic development. (Author/CCM)

An international team of mathematics and science educators developed a method of investigating the pedagogical content parts of preservice teachers' knowledge bases. They asked preservice teachers to prepare a lesson plan about a topic (area) as if they had to teach it, then they later interviewed them. The method produced significant, rich…

Examined frameworks that might be robust across different cultures and educational systems in describing teachers' approaches to teaching mathematics, discussing their application in teacher education courses. Examination of lesson plans (related to teaching the concept of area) from Irish and Dutch preservice teachers produced a two-dimensional…

Investigated Dutch, Finnish, English, and Greek preservice science teachers' conceptions of and concerns about how to teach the concept of combustion. Participants prepared lessons for junior secondary students, then completed interviews and questionnaires. Results revealed many important and similar characteristics of prospective teachers' views…

Used the lesson preparation method and interviews to investigate preservice physics teachers' pedagogical content knowledge, focusing on their knowledge of pupils' conceptual difficulties with temperature and heat. Results found a relationship between conceptual difficulties preservice teachers expected their pupils to have and conceptual…

Investigated how 11 9th-grade Portuguese physics textbooks dealt with heat and temperature and whether they were adequate information sources for students. Examination of ideas (which included correctness of concepts and arguments, global teaching approach, and learning activities) indicated that most of the textbooks were not consistent with…

Researchers studied English and Swedish biology student teachers' perceptions of teaching health as part of biology. As part of the study, the students investigated secondary students' understanding of health. Surveys and interviews were effective in collecting student teachers' views. They indicated that student teachers' perceptions changed over…

Investigated boys' and girls' perceptions of mathematical and scientific higher-order thinking, ways to identify higher order thinking's occurrence, and inquiry methods for developing it in elementary students and preservice teachers. Results indicated that both genders had similar perceptions about inquiry and approaches to higher-order thinking.…

Investigated Dutch student teachers' practice, experience, and problems with their required educational research project. Researchers followed four student teachers and created a description of the four cases in terms of the operational, experienced, and attained curriculum. From these descriptions, they formulated improvements for the training of…

Discusses how outcome-based assessment is used by the accreditation organizations for universities in the United States. Suggests that adoption of similar procedures may help European engineering institutions measure programs across boundaries and foster transnational recognition. (Author/CCM)