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Noble, Tracy; DiMattia, Cara; Nemirovsky, Ricardo; Barros, Apolinario – Cognition and Instruction, 2006
A group of high school students created a drawing of a circle using a device called the Drawing Machine. To describe their experiences, we propose an alternative to the idea that to master a tool one must create a mental version of the tool. We suggest, instead, that as students change their relationships to a tool over time, their lived-in spaces…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Experience, Planning, Drafting
Thomas Nelson Community Coll., Hampton, VA. – 1983
A project was conducted in Virginia to develop a coordinated, articulated, competency-based curriculum for selected industrial arts areas from an identified common core of competencies. The competencies would include a set of performance objectives, a set of criterion-referenced measures, and a set of instructional resource guides in the…
Descriptors: Architectural Drafting, Competence, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development
Kirk, Karen; Ladner, Daryl; Lewis, Carroll; Moran, Sheryl; Schneider, Chester; Strickland, Ruth Ann; Welch, Amanda – Research and Curriculum Unit, 2005
Secondary vocational-technical education programs in Mississippi are faced with many challenges resulting from sweeping educational reforms at the national and state levels. Schools and teachers are increasingly being held accountable for providing true learning activities to every student in the classroom. This accountability is measured through…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Secondary School Curriculum, Time on Task, Competence
Henderson, Wm. Edward, Jr. – 1982
Intended for use in competency-based and criterion-referenced vocational programs, this articulated, performance-based instruction objectives guide for Drafting I is designed for reference use in the articulation of drafting programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels. It consists of a description of the development of the guide, 14…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Competence, Curriculum Development, Drafting
Missouri Univ., Columbia. Instructional Materials Lab. – 1991
A project was conducted to develop and validate criterion-referenced test items for the following vocational education programs: child care worker, machine shop, electronics, drafting, and automobile mechanics. For each of the programs, the following activities took place: a project coordinator was assigned, subject-area instructors and a test…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Competence
Ingram, David; And Others – 1993
This document contains a project report and procedures manual from a project in which a group of junior colleges and postsecondary technical schools in Texas developed, pilot tested, and disseminated performance criterion-referenced occupational examinations for technical occupations. The report describes how teachers and industry personnel…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Design, Computer Science