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Douglas, Kerrie A.; Moore, Tamara J.; Johnston, Amanda C.; Merzdorf, Hillary E. – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2018
Assessment of students' critical thinking and problem solving in engineering is a real challenge for classroom teachers and researchers. Yet, students demonstrate evidence of learning through multiple means, including written reflections. The purpose of this study was to explore how students in grades 5 and 7 reflect on what they had learned about…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Design, Student Attitudes, Content Analysis
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Lee, Heather A. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2015
If Christian schools desire students to achieve higher-level thinking, then the textbooks that teachers use should reflect such thinking. Using Risner's (1987) methodology, raters classified questions from two Christian publishers' fifth grade reading textbooks based on the revised Bloom's taxonomy (Anderson et al., 2001). The questions in the A…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Christianity, Textbooks, Thinking Skills
Gun, Emine Seda – Online Submission, 2013
The purpose of this research is to set the effect of Layered Curriculum on learning-teaching processes. The research was conducted on 2011-2012 educational year. The implementation process, which lasted for 4 weeks, was carried out with the theme named "The World of All of Us" in Social Studies lesson at 5th grade. Observation and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Studies, Content Analysis, Distance Education
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Gün, Emine Seda – International Journal of Instruction, 2013
The purpose of this research is to set the effect of Layered Curriculum on learning-teaching processes. The research was conducted on 2011-2012 educational year. The implementation process, which lasted for 4 weeks, was carried out with the theme named "The World of All of Us" in Social Studies lesson at 5th grade. Observation and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Studies, Content Analysis, Distance Education
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Bigham, Gary D.; Riney, Mark R. – NASSP Bulletin, 2017
To meet the constantly changing needs of schools and diverse learners, educators must frequently monitor student learning, revise curricula, and improve instruction. Consequently, it is critical that careful analyses of student performance data are ongoing components of curriculum decision-making processes. The primary purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Educational Improvement, Decision Making, Curriculum Development
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Kus, Zafer – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2014
The social studies curriculum was recently revised in Turkey, running in a pilot scheme in the school year 2004-05. It was then implemented in primary schools all over Turkey from 2006. This study describes the kind of citizen it aims to form by analysing all of the documents relating to social studies teaching. The social studies curriculum for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, Curriculum Development, Elementary Schools