Lanterna Rally
eBook PDF Download Digital Library
Teaching to Individual Differences in Science and Engineering Librarianship
Author: Jeanine Mary Williamson
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Published: 2017-08-11
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0081018827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Teaching to Individual Differences in Science and Engineering Librarianship: Adapting Library Instruction to Learning Styles and Personality Characteristics applies learning styles and personality characteristics to science and engineering library instruction. After introducing the idea that individuals tend to choose college majors and occupations in alignment with their learning style and personality characteristics, the book presents background on the Kolb Learning Styles model, the 16 PF (Personality Factor) framework, and the Big Five/Narrow Traits personality framework. It then reviews extant knowledge on the learning styles and personality characteristics of scientists, engineers and librarians. Next, the book considers general approaches to the personalization of instruction to learning styles and personality characteristics, opportunities for such personalization in science and engineering library instruction, and science and engineering librarian attitudes towards, and approaches to, this type of personalization of instruction. Considers teaching and individual differences within science and engineering librarianship Offers a balanced and critical account of the adaptation of library instruction to learning styles and personality characteristics Cites the dynamic instruction/adaptive teaching literature Discusses opportunities and suggestions for incorporating personalization into science and engineering library instruction
Adapting Instruction to Individual Differences
Adaptation of Subject-matter and Instruction to Individual Differences in the Elementary School
Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning
Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2002-09-27
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9027297517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Second language learners differ in how successfully they adapt to, and profit from, instruction. This book aims to show that adaptation to L2 instruction, and subsequent L2 learning, is a result of the interaction between learner characteristics and learning contexts. Describing and explaining these interactions is fundamentally important to theories of instructed SLA, and for effective L2 pedagogy. This collection is the first to explore this important issue in contemporary task-based, immersion, and communicative pedagogic settings. In the first section, leading experts in individual differences research describe recent advances in theories of intelligence, L2 aptitude, motivation, anxiety and emotion, and the relationship of native language abilities to L2 learning. In the second section, these theoretical insights are applied to empirical studies of individual differences-treatment interactions in classroom learning, experimental studies of the effects of focus on form and incidental learning, and studies of naturalistic versus instructed SLA.
Explaining Individual Differences in Reading
Author: Susan A. Brady
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2011-05-09
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1136732837
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Research into reading development and reading disabilities has been dominated by phonologically guided theories for several decades. In this volume, the authors of 11 chapters report on a wide array of current research topics, examining the scope, limits and implications of a phonological theory. The chapters are organized in four sections. The first concerns the nature of the relations between script and speech that make reading possible, considering how different theories of phonology may illuminate the implication of these relations for reading development and skill. The second set of chapters focuses on phonological factors in reading acquisition that pertain to early language development, effects of dialect, the role of instruction, and orthographic learning. The third section identifies factors beyond the phonological that may influence success in learning to read by examining cognitive limitations that are sometimes co-morbid with reading disabilities, contrasting the profiles of specific language impairment and dyslexia, and considering the impact of particular languages and orthographies on language acquisition. Finally, in the fourth section, behavioral-genetic and neurological methods are used to further develop explanations of reading differences and early literacy development. The volume is an essential resource for researchers interested in the cognitive foundations of reading and literacy, language and communication disorders, or psycholinguistics; and those working in reading disabilities, learning disabilities, special education, and the teaching of reading.
Adapting Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science Materials for the Inclusive Classroom
Author: Jean B. Schumaker
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780865863408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers teachers guidelines and suggestions for adapting and/or selecting materials for use with students with disabilities in general language arts, social studies, and science classrooms (grades 6 through 8). Following an introduction, chapter 1 offers a nine-step procedure for adapting materials from first, creating a plan for adapting materials, through fourth, determining the need for content adaptations versus format adaptions for adapting materials, to ninth, fading the adaptation when possible. The following three chapters offer examples of material adaptations including adapting existing materials, mediating existing materials, and selecting alternate materials. These 12 contributions are: (1) "Differentiated Textbook Instruction" (Steve Horton); (2) "The Quality Assignment Routine and the Quality Quest Planner" (Jean Schumaker); (3) "S.O.S.: Survey, Obtain Information, Self-Test" (Jean Schumaker); (4) "Content Organizers" (B. Keith Lenz); (5) "Concept Organizers" (Janis Bulgren); (6) "Mnemonic Adaptations" (Margo Mastropieri and Tom Scruggs); (7) "Problem-Solving Prompts for Performance Assessments" (Jerry Tindal); (8) "Title: The Survey Routine" (Jean Schumaker); (9) "Coherent Text Built around Big Ideas" (Bonnie Grossen); (10) "Reasoning and Writing" (Bonnie Grossen); (11) "Science Videodisc Media" (Bonnie Grossen); and (12) "Connecting Math Concepts, SRA, and Core Concepts Videodisc Programs" (Bonnie Grossen). (Individual sections contain references.) (DB)
Adapting the Schools to Individual Differences
Author: National Society for the Study of Education
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Adapting the Reading Program to the Needs of the Individual Child
Handbook of Individual Differences in Reading
Author: Peter Afflerbach
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-11
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1135120935
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The central unifying theme of this state-of-the-art contribution to research on literacy is its rethinking and reconceptualization of individual differences in reading. Previous research, focused on cognitive components of reading, signaled the need for ongoing work to identify relevant individual differences in reading, to determine the relationship(s) of individual differences to reading development, and to account for interactions among individual differences. Addressing developments in each of these areas, this volume also describes affective individual differences, and the environments in which individual differences in reading may emerge, operate, interact, and change. The scant comprehensive accounting of individual differences in reading is reflected in the nature of reading instruction programs today, the outcomes that are expected from successful teaching and learning, and the manner in which reading development is assessed. An important contribution of this volume is to provide prima facie evidence of the benefits of broad conceptualization of the ways in which readers differ. The Handbook of Individual Differences in Reading moves the field forward by encompassing cognitive, non-cognitive, contextual, and methodological concerns. Its breadth of coverage serves as both a useful summary of the current state of knowledge and a guide for future work in this area.
