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Between Teaching and Researching: Envisaging Ownership Benefits of Involving Teachers from an In-Service Teacher Training Program in the PARSEL Project
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Michelsen, Claus; Nielsen, Jan Alexis – Science Education International, 2008
The Danish PARSEL team included 5 teachers from the region of Southern Denmark, of whom two enjoyed special status. These two teachers have been trained to develop, implement, and evaluate interventional modules similar to those of PARSEL, through a one year full-time equivalent master's degree program in science and mathematics education. This…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Ownership, Masters Programs, Foreign Countries
"Saving Sex for Later": Developing a Parent-Child Communication Intervention to Delay Sexual Initiation among Young Adolescents
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O'Donnell, Lydia; Wilson-Simmons, Renee; Dash, Kim; Jeanbaptiste, Varzi; Myint-U, Athi; Moss, Jesse; Stueve, Ann – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2007
Young adolescents in communities with high rates of early sexual initiation are at risk of multiple negative health outcomes. Although sex education programs for this age group are often controversial, surveys document that many mothers and fathers would appreciate guidance about how to discuss sexuality with their children. This paper presents an…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sex Education, Early Adolescents, Adolescents
Designing a User-Friendly Microcomputer-Based Laboratory Package through the Factor Analysis of Teacher Evaluations
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Lavonen, Jari; Juuti, Kalle; Meisalo, Veijo – International Journal of Science Education, 2003
In this study we analyse how the experiences of chemistry teachers on the use of a Microcomputer-Based Laboratory (MBL), gathered by a Likert-scale instrument, can be utilized to develop the new package "Empirica 2000." We used exploratory factor analysis to identify the essential features in a large set of questionnaire data to see how…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Chemistry, Learning Laboratories, Teacher Surveys