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Peer reviewedBlum, Abraham A.; And Others – Science Education, 1981
Describes the development and validation of the Curriculum Adaptation Scheme (CAS) to aid curriculum developers in their curriculum adaptation endeavors. Provides a copy of the instrument. (DS)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Higher Education, Instructional Development
Peer reviewedLeinhardt, Gaea – Science Education, 1977
Presents an in-house strategy for evaluating developed curricula. The strategy is demonstrated via the evaluation of the Individualized Science curriculum. (SL)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation
Peer reviewedBlum, Abraham – Science Education, 1982
If students are expected to become interested in science as a career or hobby, they must perceive their science courses as being useful. Student perceptions of usefulness of curricula were investigated relative to two agricultural programs taught in Israeli elementary and junior high schools. (PB)
Descriptors: Agriculture, Attitudes, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research
Peer reviewedHickey, Daniel T.; Zuiker, Steven J. – Science Education, 2003
Outlines a sociocultural perspective on program evaluation consistent with sociocultural views of knowing and learning. Perspective is characterized by rigorous use of multiple-choice tests, performance assessments, and event-based analyses; a dialectical approach to conflicting conclusions from individual assessments and between individual and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Identification (Psychology)
Peer reviewedHermann, Graham D.; Willings, Rex – Science Education, 1980
Investigates some of the evaluation methodologies presently being advocated in assessing the merits of education programs for training science teachers. Questionnaire data from ex-students were used to elicit raw data and an understanding of these data by a newer methodology involving ordering theory. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Peer reviewedBredderman, Ted – Science Education, 1985
Student outcomes were assessed by quantitatively combining results of 57 reported evaluations of three major curriculum programs in elementary school science. Thirty-two percent of the comparisons were statistically significant, favoring activity-based programs; six percent favored control groups. (DH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Learning
Peer reviewedMilson, James L. – Science Education, 1979
Investigated how the use of laboratory-oriented science curriculum materials affected the attitudes of students with reading difficulties. Both the ninth grade experimental and control classes used a six-week instructional unit on heat and temperature. (HM)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials, Junior High School Students
Peer reviewedWelch, Wayne W. – Science Education, 1979
This study, conducted by the staff of Minnesota Research and Evaluation Project (MREP), reports the results of several needs assessment procedures used with teachers and principals from a random sample of 224 schools from 13 western and midwestern states. (HM)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Needs, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
