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Download full textEutsler, Mark L. – Online Submission, 2013
Indiana's declining SAT scores prompted the publisher of a statewide magazine covering the literary, performing, and visual arts to take action and create a program to use the magazine as a supplemental resource for students. It was believed that such a supplemental resource could enhance critical thinking and writing skills and help raise SAT…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Writing Skills, Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods
Nisivoccia, Joseph D. – 1996
A cooperative learning model was used in Florida to change the state-mandated grade 12 course called Family Life and Sex Education, which had been found deficient in meeting students' educational and social needs. Pretest data before the change in model indicated a lack of knowledge that had a detrimental effect on thinking and problem-solving…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Coleman, Connie; King, Jeff; Ruth, Mary Helen; Stary, Erin – 2001
This report describes a program, utilizing both critical and creative thinking skills, to enhance the educational process through the use of technology. The targeted population consisted of fourth grade students in a growing middle class community located in northern Illinois. The lack of higher-order thinking skills was documented through…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development
Branderhorst, Mark; Huizenga, Terry; Kruzich, Kristin – 1997
A program was developed to improve students' transfer of concepts and skills among content areas and to the world outside of the classroom. The targeted population was sixth and eighth graders at a private middle school of 250 students in a stable middle-class community in a suburb of Chicago (Illinois). Study of the school site and a literature…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Grade 6, Grade 8
PDF pending restorationRominski, Carolyn; Vazquez, Magdalena – 1997
A program designed to support English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students' achievement when mainstreamed into eighth grade literature and composition classes is described. The approach was implemented in a suburban school, in which some ESL students lacked the skills to achieve at grade level in regular composition and literature classes. A high…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
Young, Anthony – 2002
A cybernetic unit in driver education was developed to help grade 10 students develop the skills needed to acquire and process driver education information and prepare for the driving phase of driver education in grade 11. Students used a simulator to engage in a series of scenarios designed to promote development of social, behavioral, and mental…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Check Lists, Creativity
