A growing understanding that parents and teachers can effectively collaborate to help
children succeed in school has led worldwide policymakers and school leaders to begin …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews some of the major themes that characterize the
quarter century of research on intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. The three major issues …

Abstract The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)[Achieve, Inc.[]] represent a broad
consensus that teaching and learning expectations must change. Rather than memorizing …

The first book to take a" visitor's eye view" of the museum visit when it was first published in
1992, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand …

The lion's share of my current research program is devoted to the study of learning in the
blooming, buzzing confusion of inner-city classrooms. My high-level goal is to transform …

Project-based learning is a comprehensive approach to classroom teaching and learning
that is designed to engage students in investigation of authentic problems. In this article, we …

It is said that there's nothing so practical as good theory. It may also be said that there's
nothing so theoretically interesting as good practice. 1 This is particularly true of efforts to …

Instructional theory describes a variety of methods of instruction (different ways of facilitating
human learning and development) and when to use--and not use--each of those methods. It …

It happens often in the physical and biological sciences, seldom in the behavioral sciences,
that a line of research pursued for its theoretical interest intersects with a growing societal …

In this article we focus on educational ideas and enabling technology for knowledge-
building discourse. The conceptual bases of computer-supported intentional learning …