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Download full textKlein, Davina C. D. – 1994
This study examined how learning a problem-solving strategy or schema in one or two distinct content areas with copying or explaining of the strategy affected students' ability to transfer that strategy to a new content area. Eighty-one regular and 56 honors junior high school students (grades 6 and 7) were presented with story problems and their…
Descriptors: Analogy, Communication (Thought Transfer), Critical Thinking, Elementary School Students
Tittle, Carol Kehr; Hecht, Deborah – 1990
This manual describes the Mathematics Assessment Questionnaire (MAQ) and its development, provides relevant background from the research literature, describes approaches to the reporting and uses of the MAQ (including its use in instructional planning), and presents sample responses from students and classes. The MAQ provides teachers and students…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Classroom Environment, Grade 7, Grade 8
PDF pending restorationFoster, William; Gaa, Nancy; Nowicki, Jan; Ross, Venessa – 1997
This action research project implemented and evaluated an intervention for increasing student engagement in learning to improve academic success. The targeted population consisted of students in four separate schools: pre-kindergarten and eighth graders in a large metropolitan area and fifth and eighth graders in a rural community. The lack of…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2007
The Field Trip to the Moon program uses an inquiry-based learning approach that fosters team building and introduces young people to careers in science and engineering. The program components include the Field Trip to the Moon show (either on DVD or presented in a planetarium dome) and workshop investigations. The compelling show provides…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Workshops, Museums, Recreational Facilities
Galletta-Bruno, Diana – 1995
The practicum reported here addressed the difficulty some newly-immigrated Spanish-speaking, limited-English-proficient high school students experience in adjusting to a new culture, putting them at risk of dropping out of school. A program was designed for this population in a suburban high school with a substantial and increasing immigrant…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Conversational Language Courses, Dropout Prevention, English (Second Language)
Lutheran Social Mission Society, Philadelphia, PA. Lutheran Settlement House. – 1993
Staff development workshops for teachers, tutors, and supervisors were conducted at the Lutheran Settlement House Women's Program. Staff and teachers were surveyed to ascertain staff development needs. Workshops were unique in that they were presented by peer teachers and supervisory staff of the program and invited all participants to share ideas…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Family Violence, Individualized Instruction
Leak, Lawrence E.; And Others – 1990
The emergence of LEAD Centers, Principals' Centers, and other similar principal support efforts are an acknowledgement of the demanding professional requirements placed upon principals. This document provides an easy-to-use reference listing of resources identified by the Maryland Commission on School-based Administration and the Maryland LEAD…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers), Communication Skills
Badger, Elizabeth; And Others – 1990
In the spring of 1989, over 2,000 pairs of fourth- and eighth-grade students were assessed on their ability to apply mathematical and scientific concepts. The tests (administered in alternate years during the written assessments of the Massachusetts Educational Assessment Program) required students to apply what they knew about mathematics and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 8
Norrie, Alexander L. – 1989
The purpose of this study was to examine whether the mathematical structures inherent in grade 7 geometry curriculum objectives can be used to improve the communication of the objectives to students. Teacher inservice based upon geometrical properties and structures was combined with student teaching materials to try to improve student achievement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometric Constructions, Geometry, Grade 7
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. Graduate School of Education. – 1987
This unit is intended to teach estimation skills in such a way as to be relevant and useful to students as they apply them in various problem-solving activities. The teaching activities feature the earth, exploration into space, and the other worlds in the solar system. The teacher's guide contains four modules. Module I suggests the use of…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Estimation (Mathematics), Geometric Concepts, Geometry
Stricker, Lawrence J. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
Steele and Aronson (1995) found that the performance of African-American subjects on test items portrayed as a problem-solving task, in a laboratory experiment, was adversely affected when they were asked about their ethnicity. This outcome was attributed to "stereotype threat". Performance was disrupted by the subjects' concerns about…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, Test Items, Problem Solving
Hawver, Deborah A. – 1990
This practicum addresses the need to organize a structured problem solving program for fifth and seventh grade students. The improvement of the students' problem solving skills and the enhancement of students' attitudes toward problem solving in mathematics were the main goals. The program implemented consisted of a structured problem solving…
Descriptors: Calculators, Cognitive Development, Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Mathematics
Curtis, David; Denton, Rob – 2003
A new authentic performance-based approach to assessing problem solving was developed for use in vocational education and other programs in Australia. The process of developing the problem-solving assessment instrument and process included the following phases: (1) exploration of the theoretical conceptions of problem solving; (2) identification…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Competency Based Education, Critical Thinking, Definitions
Davis, Diane, Ed. – 1992
These criterion-referenced test (CRT) items for air conditioning, heating, and refrigeration are keyed to the Missouri Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Competency Profile. The items are designed to work with both the Vocational Instructional Management System and Vocational Administrative Management System. For word processing and…
Descriptors: Air Conditioning, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Electricity
Greater Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, LA. – 1992
Developed by the ABCs of Construction National Workplace Literacy Project, these curriculum materials for the area of electrical and instrumentation contain a lesson that deals with reading charts and tables. The lesson consists of an objective, instruction, and 10 exercises. Three types of problems are provided in each exercise: "try…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
