The Core-Plus Mathematics Project (CPMP) has completed development and evaluation of student and teacher materials for an integrated 3-year high school mathematical sciences curriculum for all students. This paper provides a brief overview of the CPMP curriculum in terms of its design and theoretical framework as well as a profile of the…

An intensive college English Literature course provided a special learning opportunity through its innovative reading and writing assignments. From the beginning, students learned by individually selecting, finding, and reading texts and writing descriptive reports intended for class sharing and interaction. The final project involved a formal…

This paper discusses a needs assessment study undertaken to determine student attitudes toward womens studies. Specifically it proposes a male/female relations course and outlines a data-based approach for teaching a college level communication dynamics course based on the assessment. The needs assessment sample consisted of 481 students at…

The Competency-Based Instruction (CBI) course at Arizona State University was designed to teach preservice and inservice teachers how to develop the components of a CBI program. They were taught how to: (1) divide a program of their choice into instructional units, (2) write instructional outcomes for the instructional units, (3) prepare materials…