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Lukes, Laura A. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2014
Dual-enrollment (DE) science courses offer a way to strengthen the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics pipeline between high school and college. These courses offer high school students the opportunity to experience college science in a more supported environment, allowing them to adjust to the different academic and social demands…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Program Implementation, High School Students, Secondary School Science
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Hannah, Judith L. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 1996
The National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsors a range of programs to fund innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Focuses on NSF's expectations for project evaluation beginning with a definition of evaluation and a discussion of why evaluation is needed. Also describes planning, formative, and summative evaluation stages and concludes…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Educational Change, Federal Programs, Geology
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Rojas, Carlos A.; Mayer, Victor J. – Journal of Geological Education, 1979
Reports that teachers of the Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP) exhibit most of the characteristics typical of earth science teachers. However, their backgrounds in geology are superior to those of most earth science teachers. CEEP students tend to be academically above average. (Author/MA)
Descriptors: Earth Science, Educational Research, Formative Evaluation, Geology
Stoever, Edward C., Jr.; Korporaal, Arie R. – Geotimes, 1979
Detailed are the origins, development, and implementation of the Crustal Evolution Education Project (CEEP). This group has produced, for use in earth science and other classes in grades 8-10, a series of instructional modules based on current scientific research in the composition, history, and processes of the earth's crust. (BT)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Earth Science, Geology
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Coash, John R. – Journal of Geological Education, 1982
GEO-Study, an NSF-sponsored study, conducted by the American Geological Institute (1962-64) to examine the educational environment of 44 geology departments, initiating a change in United States geological education. Discusses the early years of development and study (emphasizing undergraduate geological education) and the last 10 years during…
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Trends, Geology, Higher Education
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Mayer, Victor J. – School Science and Mathematics, 1984
Reports findings of a national evaluation of the Crustal Evolution Education Project focusing on student/teacher characteristics and student achievement and attitudes. Evaluation objectives, design of evaluation, instruments and methods of data collection are included. Directions developed for center coordinators/test teachers and samples of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Evaluation, Geology, Program Evaluation