The Indiana Science Initiative (ISI) is a systemic effort to reform K-8 science education. The program provides teachers with professional development, reform-oriented science modules, and materials support. To examine the impact of the initiative's professional development, a participant observation study was conducted in the program's pilot…

The Science, Engineering, and Technology Gateway of Ohio (SETGO) program has a three-pronged approach to meeting the needs at different levels of students in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pipeline. The SETGO program was an extensive collaboration between a two-year community college and a nearby four-year…

This paper defines correlation, describes the Mix It Up program, discusses the teachers' beliefs about the value of correlating mathematics and science prior to program participation, and identifies problems teachers associated with correlation before and during the program. Teachers' beliefs about the value of correlation and about the problems…

This study explored how mathematics content and methods courses for preservice elementary and middle school teachers could be improved through the integration of a set of instructional materials based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). A set of eight instructional modules was developed and tested. The study involved 7…

Junior high school students rated the expository method of teaching better than the laboratory and discovery approaches. (CP)

Describes the strategy used in a study designed to evaluate the impact and efficacy of the National Science Foundation Comprehensive Program for Teacher Education. The data from this study had not yet been analyzed, and results are therefore not included in the paper. (JR)

Preservice teachers' success in a science lesson presentation was not significantly influenced by the number of science courses taken previously, the science topic chosen, or grade level selected for the presentation. (CP)

Evaluation as a particular kind of investigated discipline is distinguished from, for example, traditional empirical research in the social sciences or from literary criticism, criminalistics, or investigative reporting, partly by its extraordinary multidisciplinarity (Scrivens, 1991, p. 141). It is this unique multidisciplinary feature of…

Reports on an extensive field study conducted to evaluate a successful inservice program for elementary mathematics teachers. The evaluation provides a measure of stated characteristics in a field setting and utilizes both measures of teacher response to the program and student achievement resulting from the inservice activities. (Author/DS)