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Direct linkPiercey, Victor; Cullen, Roxanne – PRIMUS, 2017
In order to improve problem-solving dispositions, a section of an inquiry-based math sequence for first-year business students was linked with a section of our general education English sequence. We describe how the linked classes worked and compare some preliminary results from linked and unlinked sections of the math sequence.
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving
Carver, Brian W.; Davis, Rochelle; Kelley, Robin T.; Obar, Jonathan A.; Davis, Lianna L. – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2012
During the 2010-11 academic year, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia, worked with professors at universities across the United States who were interested in using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in their classrooms through a pilot version of the Wikipedia Education Program. This article presents a case study…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Web Sites, Encyclopedias
Hipsky, Shellie; Scigliano, Deborah; Parker, David – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2013
Due to the closing of the GM Manufacturing Plants, Grand Rapids, Michigan area experienced an extreme loss of jobs, which led to low-socioeconomic hardships such as "food insecurity" that was witnessed in the needs of the many students who attend the Grand Rapid Public Schools. This case provides insight into how educational leader…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Hunger, School Community Programs, School Community Relationship
Download full textConley, David T.; McGaughy, Charis L.; Kirtner, Jody; van der Valk, Adrienne; Martinez-Wenzl, Mary Theresa – Online Submission, 2010
Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) researchers visited 38 public high schools around the United States in 2007 and 2008 with the goal of validating and operationalizing a definition of college readiness. Schools in the sample were selected because they were demonstrating success at enabling more students from underrepresented groups to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Public Schools, College Preparation, School Readiness
Van Kannel-Ray, Nancy; Lacefield, Warren E.; Zeller, Pamela J. – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2008
For the past eight years, Midwest Educational Research Consortium (MERC), located at Western Michigan University, received two multi-million dollar grants through a U.S. Department of Education program entitled Gaining Early Awareness and Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP). GEAR UP is a school/university partnership using a cohort model with the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Assignments, Program Effectiveness, Integrated Services
Riffell, Samuel; Sibley, Duncan – Computers and Education, 2005
We developed a hybrid course format (part online, part face-to-face) to deliver a high-enrollment, introductory environmental biology course to resident (living on or near campus), non-science majors at a large, public university. The hybrid course was structured to include bi-weekly online assignments and weekly meetings in the lecture hall…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Educational Improvement, Biology, Science Instruction
