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Ness, Daniel; Farenga, Stephen J.; Shah, Vishal; Garofalo, Salvatore G. – Improving Schools, 2016
Appeals to reform science education by policy makers are not new phenomena. To be sure, while science reform efforts have been ongoing occurrences for nearly six decades, perpetual educational reform efforts as a whole have been evolving and gaining momentum in number for more than a century. The general motivation for continual reform appears to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Science Education, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development
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Rogers, James W.; Cox, James R. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2008
At RMIT University, students may now elect to study infectious diseases through a course called Outbreak--The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease. Outbreak was designed to simulate in an online class the effective teamwork required to bring resolution to outbreak crises and enable frameworks for future prevention. The appropriateness of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Online Courses, Communicable Diseases, Epidemiology
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Thomas, Don des S.; And Others – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1981
Individualized instruction is defined and the distinctive elements common to the various modes of individualized instruction are presented. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Individualized Instruction
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McDuffie, Thomas E., Jr.; Bruce, Matthew H. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1980
Investigated the appropriateness of audiotutorial instruction for a wide spectrum of students. Questions whether there are significant relationships between personal traits of variables of achievement and success, whether there is a different set of personal traits for high and low achievers, and how well a battery makes ex post facto predictions.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, College Science, Higher Education
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Kurtz, Thomas E. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1981
Describes how Dartmouth College has integrated computers into the total curriculum of that institution with implications for individualized instruction. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Computers, Higher Education, Individual Differences
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Hertzler, Emanual C. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1981
Summarizes proceedings of the Honors Symposium at the twelfth annual International Congress for Individualized Instruction (II) and lists speakers who have been pioneers in the field of II. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Conferences, Higher Education, Individual Differences
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Postlethwait, Samuel N. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1981
Overviews the present status and historical background of the audio-tutorial (A-T) method, by the innovator of A-T. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Individualized Instruction
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Tyler, Ralph W. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1981
Reviews conditions for effective learning, discusses the limitations on learning imposed by group instruction, and describes methods employed by the author to increase individualization. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Higher Education, Individual Differences, Individualized Instruction
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Hoffmann, Bjorn – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1981
Surveys various forms of Individualized Instruction (II) at German universities, describes the development of an II program at the University of Koln, and reports the results of a project in which II was transferred to several other universities. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Individual Differences
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Rutherford, F. James – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1981
Presents viewpoints by an assistant secretary at the Department of Education (DOE) regarding the status of educational research in instruction, including individualized instruction, in the United States. Discusses the need for reform in education, the ineffectiveness of the government, and the purposes and concerns of the DOE. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Government Role, Higher Education, Individual Differences
Thro, Mary Patricia – 1978
Individual differences in cognitive structures resulting primarily from exposure to physics content were investigated in this research study. Thirty college students were divided into a treatment group of 19 and a control group of 11. A regression analysis indicated that individual differences were probably operative. An analysis of variance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, College Students, Comprehension
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Wales, Charles E. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1981
Describes aspects of Guided Design, a recent instructional strategy designed to teach process skills, in which students engage in the decision-making process to devise solutions for a series of open-ended problems. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Higher Education, Individual Differences
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Alesandrini, Kathryn Lutz – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
This study investigated the effects of learner-generated pictures on science learning relative to both a verbal strategy and a control condition, and to determine the role of individual differences. Results revealed weak effects favoring a drawing strategy for males and females, and a holistic strategy for females only. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Style, College Science
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Altman, Howard B. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1981
Discusses the role of individualized instruction (II), and educational innovation in general, in the back-to-basics movement. Describes several approaches to innovation and lists some common reasons for the failure of innovative instructional practices. (CS)
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Trends
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Dolphin, Warren D. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1981
Provides general guidelines for conducting educational research in the field of individualized instruction. (CS)
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, College Science, Educational Research, Guidelines
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