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Huang, Haigen – Wake County Public School System, 2018
In a global economy, stakeholders need to keep themselves well-informed in terms of how their local schools perform when compared with schools across the country and around the world. In doing so, they will be able to consider how well their schools are doing in a larger context and identify strengths as well as areas to target for improvement.…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Measures (Individuals), Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking
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Kagnici, Aysegül; Sadi, Özlem – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2019
The purpose of this study is to introduce an activity which has been designed in accordance with Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) education within the scope of 5E learning model and to present the implementation steps of it. The activity plan is on the topics of Nerves, Hormones and Homeostasis in Human Physiology Unit in 11th…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Learning Activities, Physiology, Science Instruction
Huang, Haigen – Wake County Public School System, 2017
How well are Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS) students prepared for problem-solving, scientific reasoning, and critical thinking? (1) WCPSS schools out-performed both the U.S., national, and international averages in each core subject of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA): mathematics, reading, and science; and (2) overall,…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Measures (Individuals), Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking
Lenard, Matthew; Huang, Haigen – Wake County Public School System, 2018
In the spring of 2016 and 2017, a sample of juniors across all Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) high schools was administered a survey of financial literacy concepts as part of the College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA). The district administered this survey as education stakeholders have become increasingly interested in--and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Money Management, Knowledge Level, Consumer Education
Heslop, Joanne – Student Transitions Project, 2016
This report provides key research findings from a recent analysis of 51,831 students who first entered grade 8 in the B.C. K-12 education system in academic year 2004/2005. These students who entered B.C. public and independent schools were tracked over a period of ten years, to the end of the Fall 2014 term. The numerous and diverse education…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10
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Schmidt, Karsten; Kohler, Anke; Moldenhauer, Wolfgang – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2009
This paper reports on the effects the use of a pocket calculator-based computer algebra system (CAS) has on the performance in mathematics of grade 11 students in Germany. A project started at 8 of about one hundred upper secondary schools in the federal state of Thuringia in 1999; 3 years later the former restrictions on the use of technology in…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Advanced Courses, Mathematics Instruction, Calculators
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Stillwell, Robert – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
This report presents the number of high school graduates, the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), and dropout data for grades 9 through 12 for public schools in school year 2006-07. The counts of graduates, dropouts, and enrollments by grade (which serve as the denominators for the graduation and dropout rates) are from the National Center…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Secondary Education
Becker, Jerry P., Ed. – 1992
In 1986 the United States (U.S.)-Japan Seminar on Mathematical Problem Solving convened to compare the state of problem solving in the classroom and in research in the two countries. The data and results given in this paper are the results of research conducted in the United States in response to the 1986 seminar. The U.S. and Japanese research…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style