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Sutton, Paul S.; Knuth, Randy – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020
High school academic departments remain under-examined yet powerful entities in American high schools. High status department leaders create and sustain narratives around teaching and learning, disciplinary-specific best practices, and the overall efficacy and effectiveness of any number of school improvement policies and initiatives promoted by…
Descriptors: High Schools, Departments, Educational Change, Problem Based Learning
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Bas, Gökhan; Sentürk, Cihad – Teachers and Curriculum, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teachers' educational beliefs and curriculum design orientation preferences. In this research, prediction research design, one of the correlation models, was employed. The study group consisted of teachers (n = 182) working in public primary, elementary and high schools in Bilecik…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Teacher Attitudes, Curriculum Design, Public Schools
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Reinke, Luke T. – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2019
Scholars propose that contextual problems can be used to ground students' understanding of mathematical ideas, and recent curricular trends have resulted in a plethora of resources that introduce and develop new mathematical ideas through contextual problems (CPs). Given the tension between this approach and the traditional role of CPs as…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models, Mathematics Curriculum
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Veletsianos, George; Beth, Bradley; Lin, Calvin; Russell, Gregory – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
"Thriving in Our Digital World" is a technology-enhanced dual enrollment course introducing high school students to computer science through project- and problem-based learning. This article describes the evolution of the course and five lessons learned during the design, development, implementation, and iteration of the course from its…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Computer Science Education, High School Students, Instructional Design
Knuth, Randy; Sutton, Paul S.; Levias, Sheldon; Kuo, Annie Camey; Callison, Matthew – Grantee Submission, 2016
The purpose of this study is to describe and examine the structures and policies a public, comprehensive high school put in place to implement problem-based learning (PBL) across content areas. Starting in 2010, the school implemented PBL in the hopes of increasing students' career and college readiness skills. The research took place at a…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, High Schools, Problem Based Learning
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Bas, Gokhan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable scale for preferences of teachers in regard of their curriculum design orientations. Because there was no scale development study similar to this one in Turkey, it was considered as an urgent need to develop such a scale in the study. The sample of the research consisted of 300…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Design, Orientation, Preferences