ABSTRACT

The fourth edition of this highly praised book includes coverage of evidence-based education and No Child Left Behind. Like the previous editions, it offers authoritative and balanced overviews to help you make distinctions between innovative programs backed up by sound research support and “faddish” ideas which lack a research base.

chapter 1|10 pages

What Research Is of Most Worth?

chapter 2|10 pages

Nature of Educational Innovation

chapter 3|8 pages

The Structure of Educational Innovation

chapter 4|10 pages

“The Research Says…”

chapter 5|18 pages

Setting Standards

chapter 6|12 pages

Innovations From Brain Research

chapter 7|18 pages

Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy

chapter 8|12 pages

Teaching for Intelligence

chapter 9|18 pages

Thinking Skills Programs

chapter 10|12 pages

Direct Instruction

chapter 11|14 pages

Assessment

chapter 12|14 pages

Mastery Learning

chapter 13|16 pages

Curriculum Integration

chapter 14|10 pages

Cooperative Learning

chapter 15|16 pages

Literacy: Whole Language and Its Discontents