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Cognitive and Behavioral Learning Perspectives

has read the literature, listened to the warnings, and learned that it is harmful to his health. There is a direct connection bet...

Influential Factors in Early Childhood Learning

number of researchers for different age groups. Bukatko and Daehler (1998) introduce the term "scaffolding" to describe the criti...

Technology and Learning Systems

alone should not be the only measures of accountability for school libraries and library professionals. Instead, there is a need ...

A Norm Violation Experiment

liberal benefits. However, the employees do have to be to work on time. Their attendance is checked and if they are late, that is ...

Children with Asperger Syndrome and Educational Improvements

that these similar problems could be seen in family members, especially in fathers (Klin and Volkmar, 1995). The frequently descr...

Distance Learning Program Initiation

to the Online courses. There are also intangible resources that must be considered, such as faculty time. One expert commented: "...

Development of an Original Observational Instrument for Classroom Use

of facts, they should help the students understand the subject, and in doing they aid the students cognitive processes, not only t...

ESL Instruction and Internet Learning Programs

It must be recognized that ESL and TESOL premises are based in a pedagogical ideology that is the linked to second language instru...

Ogbu and Delpit Article Analyses

and the multicultural education movement are two major factors in todays educational landscape. According to Ogbu, both of these m...

Curriculum Design and the Effects of the Learning Theory of Jean Piaget

can readily recognize how teaching reflects the combined components of open communication, creative instruction and critical think...

Paul E. Johnson's Sam Patch

known life without industrialization. At the same time he was a man who reflected the dreams and ideals and hopes of his people fo...

Class and Gender of Paris Hilton

in that respect. Her connection to wealth and her ability to spend it put her in a social class that is not...

Social Learning and Aggression

hammers (plus scientific observers) (Boeree, 1998). The children beat the daylights out of the doll, hitting it, kicking it, sitt...

Science According to the Poems of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

An Article on Higher Learning Curriculum Critiqued

that multicultural education should include the "religious and spiritually based concepts of reality" that are fundamental to othe...

Learning Organizations and Cisco Systems

employees found that ? The company used a legacy PC-based test system less sophisticated than Ciscos Autotest system ? Summa Fours...

Questions Answered About Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory

motivated to repeat it (motivation) (Boeree, 1998). Can the theory explain new things? Yes, very easily. Since Bandura has sh...

English Language Learning and Lau v. Nichols

for some native language maintenance (Texas Education Agency Bilingual/ESL Unit, 2004). * 1988: More amendments to Title VII impos...

Assessment of Section 504 Regarding Students with Special Needs

school districts have a legal - if not ethical - obligation to provide scholastic modifications for special needs students so they...

Freedom of Knowledge and the Courage of Learning

a violin that is found among their belongings. The headman condemns it as "a bourgeois toy" and commands that it be burnt (Sijie ...

Sunday School Class Teaching

applications, as a means of explaining these struggles (Elder, 1995). Neville (1995) has argued that religion is not a static or ...

Gender and Media

it is also important to recognize the way common standards, including stereotyping and the creation of the double standard, have b...

Professional Context of Lifelong Learning

may not be enough to spark motivation or improve performance. Lifelong learning has been viewed as one way of defining motivation...

Character Traits Relating to Educational Readiness

variety of educational models that underscore learning as an element of individual nature as well as cultural and social variables...

Adult Identity and Learning

As a result, my understanding of my self as an adult learner is that I place a greater value on the educational experience than le...

Language Learning Instruments Assessment

data in an assessment process. According to Greenhalgh (1997), reliability and validity begin with an explicit statement of the s...

Ancient Empires Collapse

of the Fifth Dynasty, Userkhaf (2465-2458 BC) "initiated reforms that weakened the Pharaoh and central government. After his reign...

Empirical Literature on Mild Disabilities

pointing out that it is possible that the majority of the students nominated for the rejection category may not have disabilities ...

Learning Theory in 'Stand & Deliver'

of causal processes." Emphasizing the notion of learned expectations, Banduras (1986) theory is closely associated with self-effi...

Understanding the Disabled and Disabilities

beauty, wealth and status, or they can symbolize aspects of society that people would just as soon forget, such as with physical d...