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Chapter 11: Poetry, Prose And Piaget, James A. Mcshane

ADAPT Program: Essays

As a second generation ADAPT staff member, the first to add an essay to this series, it properly falls to me to extend the reflections of my colleagues.

Before doing so, let me outline my relationship to the ADAPT Program. Piagetian theory attracted me for several reasons; most of them are alluded to elsewhere in this book. I had first become aware of Piaget's work about ten years ago when participating in a teacher training project, but had not worked out its implications for college teaching very fully. So I was curious when I heard of the ADAPT Program and …

Chapter 4: A Teacher's Guide To The Learning Cycle, Thomas C. Campbell, Robert Fuller

ADAPT Program: Essays

Suppose you are preparing to teach a new college course this year. Assume that this course is designed to serve students who have career goals other than to become college professors. We would like you to consider what teaching strategies you will use to teach such students.

Chapter 7: Piaget And Mathematics Students, Melvin C. Thornton

ADAPT Program: Essays

Usually in the beginning courses I teach there are several students who never seem to understand what is really going on. These students are neither lazy nor dumb. Some even work very hard in math and do quite well in their other courses. Yet there seems to be something about their work in mathematics which produces frustration instead of understanding. I recall experiencing that kind of "learning" in high school geometry. I and many of my friends got fairly good grades in that course by memorizing without much understanding. As a high school sophomore I was just not ready for …

Chapter 6: Piaget And Learning Economics, Jerry L. Petr

ADAPT Program: Essays

There are times when teachers of economics encounter unexpected responses to economics questions asked of students. Some of the unexpected responses which I have received are reproduced below and are worth rather careful consideration.

Chapter 1: Piaget’S Theory And College Teaching, David Moshman

ADAPT Program: Essays

We will begin this chapter with a discussion of Piaget's account of general intellectual functioning at all levels of development: the nature of schemes, and the processes of assimilation and accommodation. This will lead us to his equally general (non-stage-specific) conception of how new knowledge is constructed: the processes of learning, development, and equilibration. At this point we will be ready to consider the stages of development that result from the equilibration process, with an emphasis on the state of formal operational reasoning. Finally, we will attempt to better understand the scope and limitations of Piaget's psychological work by comparing …

Chapter 2: Piagetian Interviews Of College Students, Elizabeth T. Carpenter

ADAPT Program: Essays

Since the fall of 1978, my colleague, Dr. Robert G. Fuller, and I have been involved in a project to document on videotape the variety of ways in which students approach problems. We chose problems that adequate solutions of which call for the use of certain sorts of reasoning strategies. Our materials were selected to afford rich ground for investigation by subjects of a range of operational abilities. We began by doing Piagetian clinical interviews of elementary school children and then of college students. We hope, eventually, to do similar interviews of junior high and senior high school students, too, …

Piagetian Programs In Higher Education: Prologue, Robert Fuller

ADAPT Program: Essays

How can my college teaching be made more effective? A few years ago, several of us at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln were struggling with that question. During that time the work of Piaget and the studies of the reasoning skills of American college students were brought to our attention. From those results the ADAPT program was developed.

Catalog, 1982-1983, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1982-1983 academic catalog and introduction to the college.

1982-1983 Graduate Catalog, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Catalog Archive

1982-1983 graduate catalog of Morehead State University.

1982-1983 Undergraduate Catalog, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Catalog Archive

1982-1983 undergraduate catalog of Morehead State University.

A Syllabus Of Enrichment Activities To Enhance Content Area Reading In Science, Lynn Carol Swanson

All Graduate Projects

A syllabus of 65 enrichment activities was developed to accompany the third grade Addison Wesley science text. The activities were designed to aid children in transferring study skills, context clues, comprehension and vocabulary from reading instruction to content material. Objectives and teaching strategies were developed to accompany each of 26 skills. Suggested vocabulary activities and materials were included. Each of the activities focused on helping students to transfer necessary study skills, context clues, and comprehension skills to the science text in order to improve their proficiency to read and use the text effectively.

Design And Implementation Of Computer Assisted Instruction In Money Concepts For Elementary Students, Jack H. Bender

Masters Theses

The internship with Hartley Courseware, Inc. culminated with the creation of nine money concept programs. The programs were designed for a 48K Apple II microcomputer (trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.) with Applesoft in ROM and one disk drive. Text size was expanded through use of the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium's high resolution text subroutines.

A placement program tests students' abilities and recommends the appropriate starting point. Six programs introduce information on coin values and numerous money concepts. The later programs develop sequences of actions in the purchasing process. The practice test and test programs progress through the complete purchase procedure. …

The Effects Of In-School And Out-Of-School Contracting On Academic Performance, Kelly Lynn Kent

Masters Theses

While in-school contracting has repeatedly been shown to be useful in improving academic achievement and social conduct, out-of-school contracting also holds promise in the area of student behavior change. The purpose of the present study was to transfer the control of an in-school contracting procedure outside the school and into the home with low achieving middle school students. The experimenter added an out-of-school contracting procedure to an in-school contracting program already in operation. The effect of the intervention was assessed in terms of weekly grades, six-week grades, the percent of weekly assignments completed, and the percent of contracts completed per …

Piagetian Programs In Higher Education, Sixth Edition, Spring 1982: Cover And Table Of Contents, Robert Fuller

ADAPT Program: Essays

Cover and table of contents for 6th edition, 1982.

Physical Science Workshop Course For Elementary Teachers, Glen T. Clayton, Harry D. Downing, Thomas O. Callaway

Faculty Publications

Science for elementary school grades K-6 varies somewhat in content from one textbook series to another, but it is fairly common that 40-60% of the material covered is directly related to physics. These texts suggest that certain learning activities such as experiments, demonstrations, and observations be carried out by the teacher and the class. Often the apparatus for a learning activity is to be constructed from simple, readily available materials. The typical elementary school teacher has had little experience in performing experiments and is often frustrated in his/her attempts at carrying out the suggested learning activity. To meet this need …

Predicting Student Success In College Using Stepwise Multiple Regression, Richard Edward Cerullo

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The problem was to determine the feasibility of predicting a student's success specific college, on the basis of data available at the time of the student's admission to the college. In addition to considering the development of a regression equation which could be applied to the data of any undergraduate entering the college, the feasibility of developing a statistically significant prediction equation at the school and major level was also examined.

The study was carried out in the following manner. Stepwise multiple regression was used on the admissions data of the graduating class of the 1978-1979 academic year. The cumulative …

Minutes Of A Meeting Of The Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board (Series 4), Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board, Mississippi State Textbook Procurement Commission

Minutes of the Mississippi State Textbook Purchasing Board

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater State College Undergraduate/Graduate Catalogue 1982-1983, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater State College Catalogs, 1960-2009

No abstract provided.

Prospectus: 1982-83, City Of Dublin Vocational Education Committee

Prospectus: Kevin Street

Courses and timetables for Dublin Institute of Technology, Kevin Street

The Problem Of Learning Disabilities Students Of Limited English Speaking Background: A Descriptive Study, Raymond Rodriguez

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Colby College Catalogue 1982 - 1983, Colby College

Colby Catalogues

Colby College Catalogue: September 1982 - August 1983

A Proposal For The Development Of A Program Of The Use Of Microcomputers In The Red Hill School District, Paul William Tougaw

Masters Theses

In this study the current uses of microcomputers in the classroom were explored through a review of the literature and personal interviews with educators, businessmen, and computer specialists. The current innovations are examined in an effort to anticipate the technical world that students will face in the future. One must anticipate what the future needs will be to develop a program that will help the students to become contributing members of society. This study was specifically conducted to make recommendations for the uses of microcomputers in the Red Hill school district.

The report focuses on the different areas of the …

College Of Technology, Bolton Street Prospectus 1982-83, City Of Dublin Vocational Education Committee

Prospectus: Bolton Street

Courses for the College of Technology, Bolton Street, Dublin 1.

A Curriculum Enrichment Guide For Special Education Teachers To Aid In Developing Strategies To Teach Social Studies, Claudia Moody Wiggins

All Graduate Projects

A curriculum enrichment guide was developed to help intermediate special education teachers to adapt social studies material to meet the needs of each individual special education student. Eight supplemental units were developed to be used in conjunction with the Follett Social Studies text Exploring Our World: The Americas, level 5, (Ahlschwede, 1977). Each unit included: 1) key concepts; 2) vocabulary; 3) strategies for instruction; and 4) student involvement.

Diagnostic/Prescriptive Teaching Of Language Arts And Mathematics, Molly Montz Sato

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project is to provide a Language Arts and Mathematics curriculum for the elementary level special education classroom by correlating remedial materials and activities to objectives determined by the Brigance Inventory of Basic Skills. This project is limited to the areas of Language Arts and Mathematics; however, the areas of Readiness and Reading are also tested by the Brigance.

Nova University Center For Higher Education 1982-1983 Bulletin, Nova University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

No abstract provided.

A Buberian Critique Of Four Curriculum Theorists, Paul R. Feinberg

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Uma Analise De Pesquisa Sobre O Ensino De Ciências No Brasil, 1970-1980 [An Analysis Of Research On The Teaching Of Science In Brazil, 1970-1980], Karl M. Lorenz

Education Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Classroom Management Model And Activities For Developing Self-Responsibility In The Elementary School, Sharon Montalbano Tebbe

Theses

One major goal of education is to nurture students who can take responsibility for their continued growth. In meeting this goal, educators must develop responsible problem solvers for society. This project establishes a classroom management model and activities for elementary teachers to use in setting up programs in their classrooms for developing self-responsibility in their students.

Classroom management models, teacher effectiveness, and student characteristics were researched in developing the model and activities presented in Chapter III and IV. In order for teachers to develop responsible problem solvers, the research indicated certain teacher behaviors were needed. Also, the research demonstrated that …

Catalog, 1981-1982, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 1981-1982 academic catalog and introduction to the college.