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Martin Bílek; Karel Kolár; Monika Pelikánová – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2025
This study explores the integration of STEM principles into chemistry education through the redesign of the topic Chemical Reactions for initial teacher training. The aim was to develop and evaluate an innovative teaching module that fosters key competences--knowledge, skills, and attitudes--via student-centred, context-based, and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Chemistry, Scientific Principles, Knowledge Level
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Baert, Helena; Madden, Matthew D.; Pratt, Erica – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2019
A mixed methods study was used to identify the effects of an online mastery-based learning resource on Teacher Candidates (TCs) in a Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) Program. Online modules assisted TCs with developing knowledge of critical elements and motor development stages (Gallahue, Ozmun, & Goodway, 2012) associated with 16…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Mastery Learning, Learning Modules, Program Effectiveness
Boulet, Marie-Michele – 1993
An intelligent advisor system is an instructional technology designed to further the transfer of knowledge by intervening when the user of any application software performs transfer tasks. In Quebec (Canada), the teaching of music is regulated by a mandatory curriculum which is divided into six modules; the intelligent advisor system, MUSIC,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, Grade 9
Pedras, Melvin J.; Braukmann, Jim – 1991
This report contains four learning modules designed to support a range of objectives that include increasing technological literacy, and improving written and verbal communication skills, psychomotor skills, computational skills, geometry, analysis, problem solving, and other critical thinking skills. The activities described in each module…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Learning Activities
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Mayo, Marjorie Hinton – Journal of Education for Social Work, 1979
The use of the Interpersonal Communication Inventory (ICI) with urban undergraduate social work students is described. ICI measures the patterns, characteristics, and styles of communication along the dimensions of: self-concept, listening, clarity of expression, coping with angry feelings, and self-disclosure. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Interviews
Penisten, John – 1988
The University of Hawaii at Hilo offers a vocational-technical occupational reading curriculum that encourages literacy for technology. The program is geared to meet the special needs of enrollees in the university's trade and industry division, most of whom are postsecondary open-admission students. Most have poor reading skills, averaging a…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Learning Modules, Literacy Education, Postsecondary Education
Hamilton, James B.; Harrington, Lois C. – 1979
In developing modules for training vocational educators in nondiscriminatory practices, the authors of this paper saw a need for a new approach to competency identification--one that would enable teachers to use skills generalizable across many areas. A detailed review of the literature, from which twenty major project studies in competency…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs
Hymel, Glenn M. – 1986
This paper advances the argument favoring criterion-referenced/modular-based instruction (CRMBI) as applied to training and educational efforts in business, industrial, and military settings. CRMBI is defined as an instructional delivery system (along with the concomitant curriculum design and instructional materials development implications) that…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Delivery Systems, Educational Trends, Job Training
McCombs, Barbara L. – 1982
In response to reports that many students entering military technical training lack not only effective reading skills and cognitive learning strategies, but also demonstrate skill deficiencies in exercising personal responsibility, the Motivational Skill Training Package was developed to help students acquire and implement positive self control in…
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Military Personnel, Military Training, Motivation Techniques
Hice, Ann K. – North Carolina Journal of Outdoor Education, 1979
Designed to instruct teachers in the construction and design of their own Learning Activity Packages (LAP), this article is itself an LAP, teaching LAP design through activities and instructional objectives. Journal availability: see RC 503 504. (SB)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Instructional Materials
Hoffman, Alan J. – 1976
An approach for selecting, modifying, and using protocol-related materials in elementary social studies is described. Protocol materials are defined as original records of an event or a behavior which can be observed and analyzed by inservice and preservice teacher education students. The approach, beginning with the presentation of an editorial…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction
Richterich, Rene – 1976
Second language learning today requires new materials. One type of learning unit suggested would have a simple format, limited scope and objectives, and diversity of content, form, learning strategies and activities. In spite of the problems involved in the production of this format, such units might be worked out in teacher-training programs, by…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Higher Education
Hunter, John – 2001
The theory of scientific management was established as a way to increase workers' productivity. The following are among the key principles underpinning scientific management: task simplification and division of labor boost productivity; management must control the planning of work down to its minutiae; and remuneration should be based on output.…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Competence, Competency Based Education, Educational Principles
Dwyer, Robert – 1993
A Hong Kong college instructor in English for academic purposes (EAP) describes the process of revising an instructional module designed for students involved in the building trades. The three-step curriculum development process included (1) personal reflection and solicitation of student perceptions; (2) need analysis and development of a new…
Descriptors: Architectural Education, Building Trades, Case Studies, Curriculum Design
Davis, Judith A. – 1983
A plan was developed to assure equivalency of clinical education among the medical laboratory technician (MLT) programs affiliated with Sandhills Community College. The plan was designed by faculty to monitor the quality of clinical courses offered by the clinical affiliates. The major strategies were to develop competencies, slide/tape modules, a…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Clinical Experience, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Competence