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A Matter of Definition, Criteria, and Standards in Honors: A History, from the Basic Characteristics to the "NCHC Shared Principles and Practices of Honors Education"
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Richard Badenhausen; James Buss – Honors in Practice, 2024
For more than half a century, the honors community has debated the role of standards. This comprehensive overview of those discussions--the first ever--traces the evolution of how honors education has defined itself from its early years right up until the 2022 adoption of the National Collegiate Honors Council's new "NCHC Shared Principles…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Academic Standards, Educational Practices, Educational History
Building a Comprehensive Assessment Framework
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Gesele E. Durham; Sheena G. Serslev; Matthew DeSantis – Assessment Update, 2024
The George Mason University (Mason) offices responsible for institutional reporting and assessment were merged to strengthen and solidify their functions and expertise. The organizational structure creating the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning (OIEP) was intended to engineer a new paradigm where assessment would inform the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, College Outcomes Assessment
Accelerating Early Childhood Science through a Scalable Online Teacher Professional Development Program: A Design Case of Early Science Matters
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David Banzer; Jeremy Riel; Kathleen M. Sheridan – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2024
This design case presents the conceptualization, design, and development of Early Science Matters (ESM), an online teacher professional development (oTPD) program for early childhood teachers. The program design consisted of five primary features that were expected to promote participant learning, including (1) visually oriented content, (2)…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Faculty Development, Science Instruction