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Learned Helplessness and Interdependence Theories

helplessness. Growing up as the child of an alcoholic parent creates a great deal of pressure to handle home front issues at a ve...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Treatment of Mental Illness

more common in boys than girls (Silka and Hauser, 1997). Determining the cause of retardation can be difficult and hard to pinpoin...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Interventions

In five pages this literature review considers noninvasive treatment of learning disorders, mental retardation, and mental illness...

Barney, Sesame Street, and the Colors Yellow and Purple

and love, was nothing like Sesame Street. Instead of the sophistication of Sesame Street (which, interestingly enough, had gone fr...

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...

Health Education and Technology

problem with the approaches of the past, which were to hand out pamphlets at health care centers, was that the pamphlets did not a...

Difficulties Presented by Consonant Elisions in English as a Second Language

the proper manner in which to utilize the language, partly for their own benefit and partly for the benefit of foreign speakers. ...

Lifelong Education and Globalization

being developed as a means by which to create such commodities faster, cheaper and within "laboratories or non-traditional environ...

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...

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, ...

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 ...

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...

Aggression and Childhood Development

as well as aggressive behavior. Children are highly impacted by what is modeled to them as children, and if they are raised in an...

ESL

of nationalities, which speaks to the continual need for effective English instruction. Some of the inherent difficulties and cha...

Overview of the Constructivist Theory of Learning

and cognitive therapy (Applefield, Huber et al, 35). However, constructivism as a theory has been embraced for several years and ...

Article Review on Management Learning

In five pages this paper critiques the article Responding to New Roles A Qualitative Study of Managers as Instructors' in terms o...

Higher Order Learning and Geographical Marketing

different activities than their counterparts in Florida. They may be more prone to engage in winter outdoor activities while child...

Communication and Learning Theories

the connection between the process of communication and the individual communicating, whether a general organism or a human being,...

Teens, Education, and Sleep

younger siblings. It has to do with their biological clock, the circadian rhythm that dictates to every living organism when sleep...

Mathematics and Computer Technology

has clearly developed in the mathematics classroom. Young (2000) considered the implications of computer and technological advanc...

Supervisors and Type A And B Personalities

* Does not experience the Type-As typical insecurity and hostility (Friedman and Ulmer). Type B personalities tend to be far easi...

Kolb's Learning Styles and Speaking in Public

In ten pages this essay discusses public speaking in terms of speech delivery and also incorporates Kolb's styles of learning. Fi...

Learning Process and Web Sites

The value of websites in encouraging student learning is examined in this topical overview, literature review, and study proposal ...

Considering the Question Are 'All Sales Final?'

In a paper consisting of five pages an individual responds to the City's advertisement to surrender all firearms for $100 and lear...

At Risk Teens, Experiential Learning, and Spiritual Development

In sixteen pages this review considers how one woman's work with at risk teens in her community affected her spiritual developme...

Cognition and Self Concept

In nine pages this paper discusses cognitive learning in a consideration of the role played by self concept in this process. Nine...

Two Studies on Curriculum Based Measurement Compared

In four pages the special needs learning tool Curriculum Based Measurement is considered within the context of two studies in a co...

Memo on Qualitative Study Design

In six pages this paper examines better approaches to teaching math to students who are learning disabled in this qualitative stud...

Article Review: How to Use Problem- Solving to Learn Algebra

This 5 page paper summarizes and analyzes a journal article entitled Effects of a Problem-Solving Strategy on the Introductory Alg...