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Learning Differences Between Adolescents and Adults

behaviors of older students (i.e., adult students). Classroom activities that pair younger students with older students may "encou...

Adult Education, College Instruction, and Electronic Learning

back before the first microcomputer was released during the late 1970s. It, in fact, goes all the way back to 1957, when Sputnick,...

'Supporting and Facilitating Self-Directed Learning' Critiqued

whatever the reason an individual takes on such a project, the principles of learning apply. As support, the article lists severa...

Organizational Learning and TSI

To outline this system we may argue that it is more suited to a wider range of environments and scenarios than the soft or hard sy...

Learning Theories of Vygotsky and Piaget

some concrete ideas in his mind as to how things work. When a new idea is introduced such as our example of learning how to open ...

Cochlear Implants in Children and Learning Processes

the stove at her grandmothers house can do the same thing. In other words, she is able to generalize that the stove is used for co...

Living, Loving, and Learning by Leo F. Buscaglia

the US educational system. For example, take the problem of deciding on a curriculum that fits the needs of all school children....

Brain Dominance and Various Learning Styles

dominant student (Freed and Parsons, 1997). However, this traditional way of teaching does not take into account -- at any point -...

Homeless Shelter Oral Hygiene Teaching and Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory

(McCarthy, 1996). Good dental hygiene prevents cavities as well as even more serious dental complications. The counselor m...

Complex Thinking Skills and Cooperative Learning

thinking. Because the act or process of thinking is so complex in and of itself, it is helpful to create visions that make it simp...

Social Learning and Social Control

genders. "Testosterone exerts powerful effects on human bodies, helping make them stronger and bigger. It also increases sex dri...

Learning Lessons from Enron's Bankruptcy

ignored their warnings (Saragosa, 2002). Skilling insisted that since he was not an accountant himself, he should not be expected ...

Learning Theories of Piaget and Miller

This paper provides a comparison of the learning theories put forth by Piaget and Miller. The author discusses Piaget's Developme...

Behavioral Issues Among Students With Learning Disabilities

could accommodate virtually every child in class. Thankfully, it eventually became obvious that the problem with overwhelming num...

Learning Disabled Students and Mathematics

mathematics is strictly needed. By conducting such a study it was shown that learning-disabled students can indeed be taught such...

Hormel Company and the Lessons Learned from the Mid 1980s' Strike

In five pages this paper discusses the Austin, Minnesota Hormel strike and how the union activity was defeated in a consideration ...

General Overview of Project Based Learning

mathematics, and writing achievement" (Stites, 1998). It has long been argued that the more involvement the student has in planni...

Human Learning and Computer Technology

heavy reading and/or composition requirements. When third grade students are able to apply the touch-type method of keyboarding, ...

Casement: "Learning from our Mistakes"

therapist becomes more concerned with conducting the therapy in an "approved" manner or following a particular school of thought, ...

Massachusetts' VES Database: Positive And Negative Impact Upon Student Learning

students to access and absorb the material. There are a number of advantages to utilizing telecommunications technology within th...

ESOL: Learning Approaches

capacity is readily tapped into when a combination of text and graphics are applied. Understanding the inherent difference ...

Cooperative Learning

varied, overall, the researchers concluded that the results of this research showed that cooperative learning aided students both ...

Learned Influence Of Violence And Therapeutic Risks Of Treating Abused Children

as appropriate/inappropriate for use with abused children, their parents, and/or their families o There is or is not clinical or e...

Childhood Learning And Behavioral Development: Practice Responses

- but just as critical a component to the overall success of this system - is gaining the involvement of family members, determini...

Learning Disabilities in Young Children

disability is limited proficiency in English, or "lack of instruction in reading or math" (Guidelines, 1999). The guidelines also ...

Our Virtual Learning Team - Assertiveness

misunderstanding among members (p. 379). Johnson and colleagues (2002) found that virtual teams often have very short timelines,...

Does Technology Improve Learning

classroom with state-of-the art technology, it must be worth the expense. Part 2. Examples of studies investigating this questio...

Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

the context of remedial instruction classroom; however, today, educators are increasingly realizing that all students can benefit ...

How Does ADHD Affect Learning

impossible for this individual to learn or achieve in school. This is not because they are not intelligent enough to do so, it is ...

Bandura's "Social Learning Theory" - Analysis

whether nature or nurture commands greater credit and why. Patriarchy has long assumed that the male gender is, by nature, regard...