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Householder, Daniel L., Ed.; Hailey, Christine E., Ed. – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2012
Successful strategies for incorporating engineering design challenges into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses in American high schools are presented in this paper. The developers have taken the position that engineering design experiences should be an important component of the high school education of all American…
Descriptors: High Schools, High School Students, Engineering, Design
Echeverri, J. Felipe; Sadler, Troy D. – Science Educator, 2011
The state of education in the United States, particularly in the areas of science, mathematics and technology, has been a consistent source of concern since at least the early 1980s when student performance on the 1986 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) revealed that science proficiency was lower than comparable measures from the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Problem Based Learning, National Competency Tests, Biotechnology
2001
This document contains three papers on professional development. "An Inquiry into the Continuing Professional Education of Information Technology Workers" (David D. Branigan) reports on a study in which the model of the critically reflective teacher was used to examine the practice of continuing education for the information technology…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Educational Strategies