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Secondary School Chemistry Teacher's Current Use of Laboratory Activities and the Impact of Expense on Their Laboratory Choices
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Boesdorfer, Sarah B.; Livermore, Robin A. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2018
In the United States with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)'s emphasis on learning science while doing science, laboratory activities in the secondary school chemistry continues to be an important component of a strong curriculum. Laboratory equipment and consumable materials create a unique expense which chemistry teachers and schools…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Science, Chemistry, Laboratory Experiments
Selection of Instructional Materials; A Model Policy and Rules.
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Dornfeld, Jean, Ed. – 1975
The Iowa State Department of Public Instruction has developed an instructional materials selection policy and procedures to help achieve appropriate assignment of selection responsibility and quality selection while guarding against unwarranted censorship of materials. The model emphasized the ongoing nature of media selection, involving…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Censorship, Educational Media, Instructional Materials
Survey of the Status of Materials Selection Policies in Iowa Public School Districts.
McGrew, Mary Lou – 1979
This report describes a 1979 survey of 389 Iowa school districts which was conducted to determine the state of instructional materials selection policies in each district. Respondents, usually high school library media specialists, furnished data in three areas: (1) the current state of their district media selection policies, (2) selection policy…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Educational Media, Instructional Materials, Learning Resources Centers
Research Procedures for Assessing the Effectiveness of Instructional Materials for Vocational Education.
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Briers, Gary E.; Williams, David L. – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 1979
The emphases of this investigation were to outline procedures to assess the effectiveness of instructional materials and to examine those procedures. Methods for determining sample size, constructing instruments, and modifying data are described. (SK)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Experimental Groups
Survey of the Status of Materials Selection Policies in Iowa Public School Districts in 1983 and Comparisons with Status in 1979. Based on a Study Sponsored by State of Iowa Department of Public Instruction and Department of Library Science, University of Northern Iowa.
McGrew, Mary Lou – 1983
Replicating a 1979 study, a survey of school library media specialists in 440 Iowa school districts was conducted in the spring of 1983 to determine the influence of a model policy published by the Iowa Department of Public Instruction (DPI) on the development, adoption, and provisions of school district policies for the selection of instructional…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Censorship, Educational Media, Instructional Materials
The Iowa Plan Revisited: Ten Years Later.
Stahlschmidt, Agnes D. – 1981
To gain a longitudinal look at the censorship problem facing schools and librarians, an analysis was made of the 110 requests for reconsideration of library or instructional materials that were processed by the reconsideration committee of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Community Schools from January 1971 through May 1981. The school district has had a…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Censorship, Community Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Models for Career Education in Iowa; Information Centers in Career Education.
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Brooks, Clair E. – 1973
The career information centers described in the publication were developed for schools participating in the Iowa exemplary project. It is the purpose of the document to suggest solutions to three basic questions: (1) How will prospective materials be identified and obtained? (2) How can available materials best be displayed in order to maximize…
Descriptors: Career Centers, Career Education, Community Information Services, Community Schools