set 1993: no. 2

Two classroom research projects used co-operative learning to encourage cognitive progress. This meant, almost paradoxically, using conflict, and its subsequent resolution, to teach knowledge and skills.

Some children learn best using verbal instructions and explanations; others prefer visual material. Some children learn well in one way, but prefer the other (at which they are not as skilled.) This research reveals that all is not lost when the teacher knows what to do.

The computer has turned us all into typographers - the arrangers of print and graphic material. Here is advice, based on research into legibility, on how to make it easy for learners to grasp the content.

When principals choose young teachers for their school do they get the teachers they want? A College of Education looks at how its graduates are appreciated, and what could be done to do a better job.