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Download full textGu, Yongqi; And Others – 1995
Based on personal experience, this paper examines the ambiguities of the Likert-type 5-point scale in learning strategy elicitation. Four parallel questionnaires consisting of the same batch of 20 items taken from the Oxford scale (1990) were administered among a group of 120 tertiary level, non-English majors in China. Questionnaire 1 used the…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Ramirez de Arellano, Julio D. – 2003
Since 1999, Access to Intercultural Bilingual Education (AIBE) has endeavored to improve the quality of education in the rural department of El Quiche, Guatemala, where most people speak a Mayan language as their first language. AIBE focuses on education at the preschool and primary levels, with emphases on parent participation, bilingual methods,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Bilingual Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Change
Duindam, Ton; Keus, Bart – 1994
Outdoor activities in residential programs aim to promote personal growth and to develop a healthy personality in troubled youth for whom other interventions have been unsuccessful. In the Netherlands, experiential outdoor programs consist of activities such as mountain climbing and rapelling, flat and white water canoeing, biking, sailing,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adventure Education, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Experiential Learning
Malopinsky, Larissa; Kirkley, Jamie; Stein, Richard; Duffy, Tom – 2000
Problem-based learning (PBL) is often promoted in response to the current need to offer authentic and effective professional education. PBL is a curriculum development and instructional system that simultaneously develops both problem solving strategies and disciplinary knowledge bases and skills by placing students in the active role of problem…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Instructional Development
Schumacher, Sally; Boraks, Nancy – 1981
A research team approach was selected for an ethnographic project to identify those variables that influenced the adult beginning readers' acquisition of reading strategies and their effect on reading achievement. Weekly staff meetings focused on (1) identifying initial conceptualization and emerging foci reflected in the data, and (2) continually…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Adults, Beginning Reading, Ethnography
Mizukami, Maria da Graca Nicoletti; Reali, Aline Maria de Medeiros Rodrigues; Reysa, Claudia Raimundo; de Lima, Emilia Freitas; Tancredi, Regina Maria Simoes Puccinelli – 2003
This paper describes efforts to promote professional development among Brazilian elementary teachers via a 6-year public school-university partnership, presenting theoretical and methodological frameworks, general research characteristics, and results. Researchers investigated how a constructive-collaborative intervention that examined reflection…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
