"Reclaiming the Education Doctorate: A Guidebook for (re)Designing EdD Programs" is a practical guide for those seeking to (re)design a professional practice doctorate program in education that prepares Scholarly Practitioners. To tackle the comprehensive change process necessary for (re)designing the EdD, this book will guide the reader…

Students who know how to collaborate successfully in the classroom will be better prepared for professional success in a world where we are expected to work well with others. Students learn collaboratively, and acquire the skills needed to organize and complete collaborative work, when they participate in thoughtfully-designed learning activities.…

This publication is the new edition of EDC's popular 2011 guide by the same name, completely revised to include lessons learned over the last decade, including the massive move to online learning during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Drawing on data from 188 countries and nearly 700 publications, this comprehensive guide explores distance education…

This "Focus On" discusses curriculum mapping, a process that allows educators to align the curriculum both within and across grades and to ensure that the curriculum is in line with school, local, and state standards. It outlines the steps of the curriculum mapping process from planning the mapping initiative to creating and editing curriculum…

This instructional systems planning guide presents specific criteria for developing a complete instructional program, as well as a method for designing the program. Chapter 1 presents an overview of curriculum development. Chapter 2 provides a brief description of each major activity in the process of curriculum development, which includes…

This document addresses itself to designing and conducting the various aspects of planning a comprehensive environmental education program. The intent is to provide a methodology to be used as a guide for those responsible for developing statewide environmental education programs. Among the various components are background information on the…

Describes the three phase plan a psychology department used to revise its curriculum. The plan involved: (1) collecting data on educational expectations of faculty, students, and peer institutions; (3) developing a structural model of the major; and (3) re-designing courses to fit the new program. (GEA)

The Mountain-Plains curriculum guidelines are outlined to provide guidance in fulfilling the requirements of the Career Education Model Four project as they relate to curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation. The curriculum is devised for the sole purpose of supporting the mission of Model Four and is based on the criteria for family…

This volume is the result of the application of the Health Services Mobility Study (HSMS) curriculum design method in radiologic technology and is presented in conjunction with volume 1, which reports the task analysis results. Volume 2 contains job-related behavioral curriculum objectives for the aide, technician, and technologist levels in…

The publication is designed to serve as a guide for those responsible for business education in Pennsylvania, emphasizing curriculum planning and the development of course guidelines. Chapter one deals with planning the business education program within the framework of the principles of curriculum construction. Program implementation at the…

The handbook is presented in four major parts. In part one Arthur Chickering sees college curricular change as a continuing process made necessary by conditions that are both internal and external to the college. In part two David Halliburton builds on Chickering's rationale, shifting the focus to the curriculum itself. Here he deals with the…

This article provides a brief history of the development of the 1984 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) scope and sequence document and introduces the series of articles in this issue. (JDH)

Part of an eight-module, graduate level, competency-based curriculum to prepare specialists in vocational education curriculum, this module provides information, activities, and experiences to enable the learner to select, design, produce, and disseminate instructional materials. The strategy used takes the learner in a sequence of five…

Argues that while national standards provide a valuable resource to guide curriculum development, there is no clear procedure for turning them into a grade-by-grade curriculum. Outlines and discusses the process that one school district used to create a standards-based curriculum. Provides numerous charts and examples. (DSK)

Two models based on the use of manpower data are presented in this report. They offer guides for (1) the development of a ten-year master plan and (2) the development of curriculums as appropriate, based on the time schedule of that master plan. The College Master Plan Model presents two aspects of college master planning which are divided into…