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Arzi, Hanna J.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1985
A longitudinal research study in Israel was designed to investigate effects of mutual interrelations between courses in sequential teaching on long-term retention of learning in a science curriculum. The results implied that a program composed of a hierarchical sequence of learning units is superior to a discontinuous array of discrete courses.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries, Learning Theories, Longitudinal Studies
McKeen, Ronald L.; Eisenberg, Theodore A. – Improving Human Performance, 1973
A discussion of student-generated hierarchies developed for a mathematics objective by several small groups and validated on a second group. About 40 percent of the student-generated hierarchies were validated indicating that student input can be obtained to produce useful learning hierarchies. (Author)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Research, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Zbaracki, Richard James – 1970
It was the purpose of this study to design a secondary school curriculum in narrative and dramatic literature which would reflect the growth of structures of thought and behavior in early and middle adolescence. Based on Jean Piaget's theory of intellectual development which begins in the student's experiences and works toward…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Design
Chiarelott, Leigh; And Others – 1979
This paper presents four principles to be followed in the development of experience-based curriculum. The principles have been extrapolated from John Dewey's theory of experience ("Experience and Education," 1938). They are discussed in this paper in terms of several existing curriculum materials for elementary and secondary education.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Discovery Processes, Educational Experience, Educational Principles