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Download full textProject Kaleidoscope, Washington, DC. – 1996
Project Kaleidoscope began in 1989, with support from the National Science Foundation, with the goal of strengthening undergraduate science and mathematics programs across the country. Through workshops and publications it focuses on all aspects of the undergraduate environment including faculty, curriculum, facilities, and institutional issues.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Facilities
Science News, 1980
Describes the reasons for science, mathematical, and technological illiteracy, which include the current focus on stressing basic skills, and teacher shortages. Solutions listed include elementary-secondary school curricula that emphasize technical areas, increasing faculty science and engineering salaries, and incentives for drawing students into…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Illiteracy
Anderson, Ronald D.; And Others – 1984
Sixty-eight specific interventions to improve science education were grouped into 11 categories. Each category was then related to one of three major intervention objectives and an associated group. These categories, grouped by objectives are: (1) interventions increasing amount of time students are engaged in learning science (increasing student…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement
Oki, Michinori; Brasted, Robert C. – 1981
Eight general areas were addressed in this conference on Japanese/United States chemical education, including: introductory courses; adequacy of texts, manuals, laboratory workbooks for non-majors; laboratory role in non-major courses; adaptation of such techniques as computers, programmed instruction and videotapes; evaluation and testing…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Development
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology. – 1983
This volume is composed of 11 source documents which report activities sponsored by the National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, deliberations of a subgroup of the National Science Foundation Engineering Advisory Committee, and a paper prepared for the Pfizer Corporation. The first four…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Educational Technology
Koltai, Leslie; Wilding, Michael – 1991
An overview is provided of the status and future of science, engineering, and mathematics education in public two-year colleges. In addition, results of several national-level studies are reviewed, and 15 recommendations developed by the National Task Force for the Improvement of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Education in Community,…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
