M Perhaps one of the most persistent and inescapable lessons of reading re-search of the
last decade is that we understand what is new to us in terms of what we already know. To …

A standards-based admission process for qualifying caring and competent candidates for
teacher preparation is presented. The major elements of the admission process include …

There has been a major shift in the psychology of language from a behavioristic to a cognitive
view of learning. One important reason for this shift in thinking was that behavioristic …

Rural educators in three states were surveyed regarding their perceptions of parental
involvement in their schools. Significant indicators impacting student success included the …

This paper reports the results of the Special Study Survey completed by 370 member institutions
of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in conjunction with the …

This study examined the effects of “providing” as compared to “generating” questions while
reading on the recall of concepts and facts from a descriptive passage for students at three …

This study examined the validity and generalizability of the use of Teacher Work Samples to
assess preservice and inservice teachers' abilities to meet national and state teaching …

Half of a sample of ten-year-old school children (N=69) were given conceptual postquestions
after every paragraph of text, while the other half were not given any postquestions. …

The authors assessed the extent to which a generative prereading activity known as Story
Impressions (SI), or composing a guess from clues, influences passage recall relative to a …

This study examined the use of story impressions as a prereading writing activity for seventh
and eighth-grade students. Subjects in the experimental group were given a set of story …