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English, Fenwick – 1984
An overview is provided of curriculum management and "mapping," an auditing technique for assessing the content, time, and sequence of the taught curriculum as reported by the teacher. The general notion of management is first discussed in terms of three basic kinds of activities: defining purpose and mission, configuring available…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Problems, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Ponzio, Richard – 1985
The Research Utilization in Elementary Teacher Education (RUETE) study developed techniques for better informing student teachers about current research on effective instruction and schools. Mills College in California was one of three schools of education participating in the study. This report explains and describes the research/intervention…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education, Program Evaluation
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Research Information Center. – 1983
Papers generated for a symposium entitled "Effectiveness of Stallings' Use of Time Training for Teachers in Washington, D.C." are presented. The intitial presentation, "Academic Learning Time: The Current Status of the Stallings Training" (Geraldine Williams Bethune), reviews the Stallings research and describes the Academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Agents, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Northfield, Jeff – 1982
Three studies were made of the implementation of the Australian Science Education Project (ASEP) materials in secondary classes in Victoria, Australia. The materials were designed to facilitate a more individualized approach to the learning of science. The first implementation study sought the perceptions of teachers, the second analyzed student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Materials, Program Evaluation
Saterfiel, Thomas H.; Handley, Herbert M. – 1983
A privately funded project that placed reading aides in the first three grades of the public schools was initiated in a rural county of Mississippi. The program provided a paraprofessional assistant reading instructor who worked under the direction of a classroom teacher to strengthen and enrich children's work in small groups or in an educational…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Instructional Improvement, Primary Education, Program Evaluation
Download full textRobbins, Pamela – 1986
Unquantifiable changes affecting attitudes of teachers, administrators, and students who were involved with a four-year comprehensive staff development effort are discussed. A brief overview and analysis of the Napa-Vacaville Follow Through Research Project describes the program designed to improve student engaged rates and achievement at two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Babich, Roger M. – 1985
To alleviate problems with course content, procedure, and philosophy identified by basic communication skills students and faculty, the University of Oklahoma developed a computer assisted Student Assessment Center (SAC) as a basic communication course adjunct. The SAC allows students from all sections of the course to take each of the four unit…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Computer Assisted Testing
Thieme-Busch, Carolyn A.; Prom, Sukai E. – 1983
A study evaluated an adaption of the Stallings Process of Teaching Reading in Secondary Schools in a large urban public school system. This inservice training program is designed to increase teachers' effective use of time. The program is composed of pre-training observations and resulting feedback on needed improvements in classroom behavior,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Inservice Teacher Education, Junior High Schools, Mathematics Instruction
Kitabchi, Gloria – 1987
The Memphis Apple Classroom of Tomorrow (ACOT), one of seven ACOT locations, was a joint project of the city schools and Apple Computer. The ACOT consisted of a class of 30 fifth grade students in an inner city school, who were selected on the basis of the willingness of the students and their parents to participate and to use computers in the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Black Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 5
Higashino, Fukue S. – 1985
In 1981, when Chapter 1 replaced Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I and with the advent of the effective schools movement, the Hawaii state administrators of Chapter 1 made a long term commitment to program improvement, especially in the area of instruction and quality delivery of services to the target students. In this program…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Classroom Observation Techniques, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education
Gressard, Clarice P.; Loyd, Brenda H. – 1985
The effectiveness of multiple matrix sampling was examined in a study of 495 students' attitudes toward a computer education program. A post hoc analysis of variance was used, with the class as the unit of analysis. The Computer Attitude Scale, a 30-item rating scale, was used to measure attitudes toward learning about and working with computers.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, Class Size, Classroom Research
Halasz, Ida M. – 1984
A three-year project was undertaken by the National Center for research in Vocational Education (Ohio State University, OH) to investigate time on task in vocational and technical classes. During the first year of the project, researchers used the direct observation method to collect time-on-task data pertaining to 10 teachers and 186 students in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques
