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Cook, Nicole D.; Walker, William S.; Weaver, Gabriela C.; Sorge, Brandon H. – School Science and Mathematics, 2015
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…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Fidelity, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers
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Offer, Joey; Mireles, Selina Vasquez – School Science and Mathematics, 2009
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…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Education
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Babikian, Yeghia – School Science and Mathematics, 1971
Junior high school students rated the expository method of teaching better than the laboratory and discovery approaches. (CP)
Descriptors: Evaluation, Instruction, Program Evaluation, Secondary School Science
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Lewis, Nancy S. – School Science and Mathematics, 2006
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…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Science Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach