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Charlene Ellingson; Gillian Roehrig – Science Education, 2025
This study examines an urban middle school teacher design team's capacity for creating integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curricula. Using Brown's pedagogical design capacity (PDC) theory, which highlights interactions between personal and curricular resources, this paper introduces an extended framework that includes…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Urban Schools
Finley, Fred N.; Nam, Younkeyong; Oughton, John – Science Education, 2011
Earth Systems Science (ESS) is emerging rapidly as a discipline and is being used to replace the older earth science education that has been taught as unrelated disciplines--geology, meteorology, astronomy, and oceanography. ESS is complex and is based on the idea that the earth can be understood as a set of interacting natural and social systems.…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Earth Science, Intellectual Disciplines, Concept Teaching

Picker, Les – Science Education, 1985
Discusses development and use of an aquatic studies conceptual scheme which has been used in the Project COAST (Coastal, Oceanic and Aquatic Studies) at the University of Delaware. Sample concepts and results from field testing of the curriculum are included. (DH)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science

Bowen, Craig W. – Science Education, 1994
Delineates various conceptions of curriculum and uses one of these conceptions as basis for the development of a classroom learning environment instrument. Provides an overview of how a curriculum can be conceived as a social construction that arises through interaction of participants and explains how this instrument might be used by teachers and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education

Blum, 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

Leinhardt, 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

Orpwood, Graham W. F. – Science Education, 1985
Explains the "deliberative inquiry model," a strategy developed for investigating science education in Canada. Assumptions of the model are addressed, with information on position papers, curriculum policies, textbook analysis, teacher surveys, and case studies provided. Indicates that the project has created momentum for deliberation…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education

Saadeh, Ibrahim Q. – Science Education, 1973
Reviews the state of the art in current science education in terms of curriculum development, instructional procedures, and teacher training programs. Indicates that science education researchers should stop tinkering with piecemeal studies and start delineating the dimensions of dependent and independent variables in new curricula and pupils'…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research, Evaluation

Cohen, Ronald D. – Science Education, 1972
This third of a three-article series describes impact resulting from the neglect of student involvement, unstated delimitations in scientific methodology, and overemphasis of performance objectives. Provides a list of four recommendations for further curriculum innovation. (CC)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Individual Differences
A Retrospective Account of the Development and Evaluation Processes of a Science Curriculum Project.

Fraser, Barry J.; Cohen, David – Science Education, 1989
Describes the background and 38 steps of the development of the Australian Science Education Project (ASEP) Curriculum. Discusses some implications and eight points using formative evaluation to improve science curriculum materials. (YP)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation

Hill, John C.; Tanveer, Sardar A. – Science Education, 1990
Described is a systematic plan for implementing a national curriculum development effort in science education in Pakistan. The stages, curriculum tasks, and evaluation tasks of the six-year program are included. Implications for other developing countries are addressed. (KR)
Descriptors: College Science, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation

Fraser, Barry J. – Science Education, 1978
Provides an overview of the evaluation studies conducted on the Australian Science Education Project (ASEP). Six evaluation foci are used: (1) Curriculum development process; (2) Philosophy; (3) Materials; (4) Learning Environment; (5) Student Outcomes and; (6) Dissemination. (HM)
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research

Duschl, Richard A. – Science Education, 1988
Examines the philosophical basis for the development of authoritarian views in science education curricula. Argues that the deliberation of science curricula should address humanistic and societal issues as well as fact. Suggests that such deliberation requires a broader spectrum of individuals who involve themselves in the development of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy