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Download full textRennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2024
The Massachusetts Early College Initiative eases the pathway to postsecondary education for thousands of high school students annually. Early college programs provide strategically-sequenced, real college classes with strong career orientations during students' regular high school day. When fully realized, they also provide enhanced academic and…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Dual Enrollment, High School Students, Educational Benefits
A Culture of Evidence: An Evidence-Centered Approach to Accountability for Student Learning Outcomes
Millett, Catherine M.; Payne, David G.; Dwyer, Carol A.; Stickler, Leslie M.; Alexiou, Jon J. – Educational Testing Service, 2008
This paper presents a framework that institutions of higher education can use to improve, revise and introduce comprehensive systems for the collection and dissemination of information on student learning outcomes. For faculty and institutional leaders grappling with the many issues and nuances inherent in assessing student learning, the framework…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Testing, Accountability, Outcomes of Education
Peer reviewedCasey, Heidi Van Ert; Wolf, Joan S. – Roeper Review, 1989
The study with 34 gifted fifth-grade students found that a concrete sequential approach to developing visual literacy was more effective than an abstract visualization approach. Subjects either received guided visualization or direct instruction on such art concepts as shape, form, line, color, perspective, variety, and unity. (DB)
Descriptors: Art Education, Gifted, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Mehlinger, Howard D. – 1987
The creation of a National Commission for the Social Studies offers an extraordinary opportunity to reconsider the mission of social studies education and move in new directions. Defining what the social studies field should be will help to answer the question of what should be taught. Questions of what children can learn in the elementary school…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Martin, David S. – 1987
Ninety-one hearing-impaired students entering Gallaudet University received systematic cognitive instruction focusing on specific generalizable skills, in the contexts of their regular college classes. The students were given practice in skills of organization, comparisons, analysis, classification, following instructions, temporal relationships,…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Deafness
Lane, Ian – 1992
This guide for language teachers offers a developmental approach to curriculum design for second language learning. The approach suggests a progression of tasks at various difficulty levels, geared to the gradual development of language knowledge, concepts, skills, and attitudes. Ten levels of attainment, or stages of learner development, are…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, British National Curriculum, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design
