The LODEStone model is an emerging design model for consulting on organizational, department or team level challenges for specialized learners. LODEStone evolved from the iterative design of OCTBR, a course development tool created at an academic health science center (AHSC). OCTBR's purpose is to help create better blended and online learning…

The Journey of Hope (JoH) is an evidence-based behavioral health prevention intervention model designed for disaster-affected children and youth. While the in-person JoH model has been extensively delivered and studied, the virtual implementation of this intervention, specifically tailored for the unique needs of children and youth during the…

This report will discuss the process of evaluation for development in a collaborative project that integrated teaching between the Language Centre and the Law School at the University of Eastern Finland. The focus of this report will be on a model the authors devised for the purposes of developing teaching, called "E.A.S.Y,"…

Changes to general education curricula are taking place across the globe. From the Bologna Process in Europe to the Liberal Education and America's Promise initiative in the United States, colleges and universities are reforming what constitutes general education for their students. At the University of Dayton, such reforms took the shape of a…

StarLogo The Next Generation (TNG) enables secondary school students and teachers to model decentralized systems through agent-based programming. TNG's inclusion of a three-dimensional graphical environment provides the capacity to create games and simulation models with a first-person perspective. The authors theorize that student learning of…

Describes a systemwide pilot project to revise and restructure a course in human relations that is a required course in several diploma and degree programs in the participating institutions. (Author)

Discussion of several important problems faced in developing the Follow Through model and implementing it in the field, and their eventual impacts on a sponsor. (Author/ND)

One phase of the American Industry Project was the development of a pilot program for teacher education. The decision was made to determine what kind of teacher was needed and develop the curriculum to produce this teacher. To make this determination a review of literature and interviews were conducted. Three kinds of criteria were most often used…

The Kansas Model for Industrial Education was developed to provide more options for students to learn about technological change and progress. The curriculum for SET (Secondary Exploration of Technology) covers grades 7-10 and uses a format in which broad introductions gradually narrow down to specific high-interest areas. (DS)

The EBCE task is to develop within three to five years a body of experience and research data that would document the feasibility of an entire alternative secondary education system, harnessed to the career education ideal and drawing its curriculum from the life of the adult community. (Authors)

A pilot program in respiratory therapeutics that includes a development and implementation model is reported. Its prerotational and postrotational evaluations and significant improvement in competency areas related to clinical skill areas are described. (Author/MLW)

A model was developed for implementing career education into an existing curriculum and is composed of four essential elements based on a perceived need: needs assessment, participation facilitation, curriculum design and implementation process. Each element of the model is totally dependent on the completion of the components comprising each…

Following 2 years of planning with community members, local university staff, district administrators, teachers, and parents, the Wichita (Kansas) Public Schools Board of Education drafted, approved, and funded a state-of-the-art middle-school conceptual model that was implemented in fall 1989. The pilot project process promoted teacher and…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the internal consistency reliability of the Stages of Concern Questionnaire (SoCQ) when the measure is administered to naive subjects as a pretest. The SoCQ was developed by G. E. Hall, A. A. George, and W. L. Rutherford (1979/1986). In the present study, the SoCQ was administered to secondary school…

The five social studies pilot programs used in the first year (1968-1969) of the SPEEDIER Project were continued and expanded to include more schools, teachers, students, and grade levels. During the Spring of 1970 it was possible to add three short-term pilot programs with only a few teachers involved in each. These pilots were: 1) American…