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Teaching That is Inquiry Based

standardized testing. However, Buell and Crawford (2001) note that the test does not ask students to justify their choice, "Yet kn...

Nurse Mentoring Issues

There are different studies that have made a partial examination of the developmental models of clinical mentorship and supervisio...

Professional Learning Community Creation

is hard to define exactly what a learning community is. It is even harder to create one" (2003). Morrissey suggests the term "prof...

Not Everything that is Learned is Contained in Books

they can teach a person and how they can assist a person in their own development of identity and growth. Books are powerful and...

Learning the Virtual Campus

teaches an online freshman English course and, in this article, records her experience getting emails from students. From this inf...

Comparing The Larger Learning Group And The Peer Learning Group

A group may be defined as "An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together" (Dictionary.com, 2008)....

Applying Learning Theories to Personal Experience

bell and the unconditioned response was the dogs salivation when it was fed. After the conditioning, the sound of a bell, which ha...

Motivation In The Workplace

the very same types of activities as primary drives, i.e., the individual needs to meet that need (Encyclopedia of Psychology, 200...

Wal-Mart in 2007

healthcare spending" (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 2008; p. 5). * "Increasing store network" (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 2008; p. 5). Threat...

Piaget, Vygotsky, Skinner and Their Developmental Theories

all objects with the same shape together regardless of their color (Atherton, 2005). The third stage is the "concrete operational...

Learning Teams

team groups to undertake team marking for some assignments, lessening the workload of the teachers and increasing the consideratio...

Volkswagen and Ford in Foreign Markets

in Japan. Only when it became clear that the Taurus simply would not sell in Japan did Ford learn the reason. The Taurus would n...

Learning and School Aid Decreases

In five pages chaos theory and the connection between learning and nutrition are examined within the context of the question 'Does...

Learning Theories-Nursing Education: Annotated Bibliography

Based on their results, the authors suggested nurse educators add more critical thinking exercises to their classroom curriculum. ...

Learning Theories and Adult Learning

job" (Flint, 2001, p. 3). Employees who are categorized as being in the "professions" have, for quite some time, acknowledged the ...

Learning Styles And The Mature Learner

themes relative to the mature students first year in higher education degree courses that lent themselves to success, including: a...

Learning Theories And Technology

conferencing, and interactive video and audio technologies. These are all student-centered technologies that can build upon prior ...

Learning Styles

is founded on certain principles, such as: most people can learn; instructional environments, etc. need to respond to the differen...

B.F. Skinner and Operant Conditioning

maintain productivity amidst the prison setting, supervisors must also maintain a strict adherence to control and authority so tha...

Self Learning and Organizational Learning

want to survive and thrive in an increasingly competitive environment. philosophy but he takes this idea a stage further. ...

Business Studies' Project Reflective Learning Document

In twenty four pages this business studies' project's reflective learning document includes learning theories such as those by Lew...

Overview of Project Based Learning

hold true for students at every grade level. While project-based learning has been gaining in popularity with educators over the p...

Which is Best, Public or Private Schools

way to receive a strong education is either through a privately funded school or even home schooling. Williams, who is a 1...

Operant Conditioning, B.F. Skinner, and Criminal Behavior

pigeons to coin the now infamous term "operant conditioning" to describe the phenomenon of learning occurring in response to an or...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Multicultural Learning Community Development

- but perhaps it isnt. Boyer "defined community as an undergraduate experience that helps students go beyond their private inter...

Family Nursing - Teen Suicide

apply to the many diverse factors related to teen suicide attempts and completions. Three of these objectives are: 1. Reduce fire...

ICT Learning Program Design

Social constructivism is a part of the larger school of cognitive constructivism, developed by the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsk...

Learning in Today's Technological Environment

(Calderon, 1991). McGrath and Sands (2004) describe the process that a North Carolina school system undertook in deciding t...

Therapy Approaches Behavioral v. Psychodynamic

is an emphasis on self-understanding that is founded on the premise that the more one understands himself or herself, the better a...