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Health Literacy beyond Basic Skills. ERIC Digest.
This Digest looks beyond adult basic education to address issues of health and literacy for all adults and educational responses to them. In contemporary society, a constellation of changes has complicated the adult's challenge of being healthy: the health care system's shift from a paternal...
Contextual Factors in Second Language Acquisition. ERIC Digest.
peer pressure, the presence of role models, and the level of home support can strongly affect the desire and ability to learn a second language. "Diverse needs" A basic educational principle is that new learning should be based on prior experiences and existing skills. Altho...
Career Development of Diverse Populations. ERIC Digest.
diversity is a fact of life in the U.S. population and work force, and career development practitioners must be prepared to work with clients in culturally sensitive and appropriate ways. Although individuals and specific groups have different experiences, there are some common career-...
The Advantages of Hierarchical Linear Modeling. ERIC/AE Digest
people or creatures that exist within hierarchies tend to be more similar to each other than people randomly sampled from the entire population. For example, students in a particular third-grade classroom are more similar to each other than to students randomly sampled from the school...
The Role of Teachers in Urban School Reform. ERIC/CUE Digest Number 154.
of teachers' contributions both in effectively implementing a reform model and in using the model's instructional strategies to improve student achievement. This digest, based on an extensive review of research on comprehensive school wide reform, presents a brief overvie...
Positive Behavior Support and Functional Assessment. ERIC/OSEP Digest E580.
with and without disabilities benefit by having an environment that is conducive to learning. They learn more about their own behavior, learn to work together, and support each other as a community of learners. One PBS model, Effective Behavioral Support (Sugai, 1996), emphasizes a school-wi...
New Perspectives on Counseling Underachievers. ERIC Digest.
Clearinghouse. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 286 112) Bowers, J., & Hatch, T. (2002). ASCA national model for school counseling programs. Alexandria, VA: American School Counselor Association Dweck, C. S. (1975). Role of expectations and attributions in...
Anger Management 3: Structured Programs and Interventions. ERIC Digest.
their only choice is aggression. The goal of training is to give them skills necessary to make a choice. The general format of the Anger Control Training involves modeling by trainers, role playing by trainees, and feedback. The ABC model provides the foundation of the anger ...
New Directions for Cooperative Education. ERIC Digest No. 209.
has evolved into a program offered at the secondary and postsecondary levels in two predominant models (Grubb and Villeneuve 1995). In one model, students alternate a semester of academic coursework with an equal amount of time in paid employment, repeating this cycle sev...
Early Childhood Instruction in the Natural Environment. ERIC/OSEP Digest E591.
training trials be introduced? * Who initiates the teaching transactions? * What antecedents and consequences should be used? * What is the role of corrective feedback? Contextual Features: * How should the environment be arranged? * What is the duration and intensity of activiti...
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