The goal of the Howard Hughes Science Institute (HHMI) supported science program is to train one staff member to become a science lead within each of the elementary schools in the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS) district. The specific objectives of the first year of HHMI grant project were to: (1) provide approximately 20…

This article describes the evaluation of a project designed to provide in-service training for teachers in rural schools in Outer Mongolia in techniques of independent and co-operative learning. Difficulties faced by Mongolian teachers in implementing a new national standards based curriculum were identified by the Mongolian State Education…

We conducted a series of summer workshops on bioinformatics to increase educators' knowledge of this new field of inquiry with the assumption that their knowledge will, in turn, impact student achievement. The workshops incorporated experiential learning and self-reflection (Loucks-Horsley et al. 1998). Educators demonstrated significant increases…

The iQUEST (investigations for Quality Understanding and Engagement for Students and Teachers) project is designed to promote student interest and attitudes toward careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The project targets seventh- and eighth-grade science classrooms that serve high percentages of Hispanic students.…

"The Electric Company" ("TEC") television show won the hearts of children because it made learning fun. Thirty years later, the iconic show has returned with the goal of not only teaching literacy, but also numeracy (the ability to work with and understand numbers) and mathematics vocabulary in a fun, entertaining, and engaging…

This paper will describe results concerning the impact of the PD on the three primary study outcomes: teacher knowledge of rational number topics, teacher instructional practices, and student achievement in rational number topics. All analyses are completed. However, the results cannot be shared at this time because the report is currently under…

Presents a description and evaluation of a summer program in which academic and vocational teachers and counselors from high schools and community colleges serve a 120-hour externship at a local job service center. (Author)

THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEDIUM FOR INSERVICE EDUCATION OF TEACHERS IS THE SUMMER WORKSHOP. THE COURSE WAS AN INSTITUTE INVOLVING AN INSTRUCTOR-COORDINATOR AS WELL AS SPECIALISTS. THE AREAS COVERED WERE ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, CHILD STUDY, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY, AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT. THE AREA OF CHILD STUDY…

Reports the results of a study relating to the effectiveness of the 1972 National Science Foundation summer institute at Ball State University. Participating teachers were motivated to increase, in their own teaching, the level of emphasis given to 45 of 55 instructional topics stressed in the institute. (JR)

Forty-one high school and college science and mathematics teachers who attended National Science Foundation Summer Institutes in 1955 were interviewed one year later. The interviews were intended to get information about what attracted the participants to the institutes, how they financed their participation, their opinion of the organization of…

Participants in the 1955 National Science Foundation Summer Institutes for high school and college science teachers were given questionnaires during the first and last weeks of their institute to determine their background and opinion of what they expected from the institute and degree of satisfaction. A total of 364 before and after pairs of…

This report contains a first evaluation of the Summer Institute on Teaching and Assessing Writing Skills, which was organized to help parents, teachers, and administrators in the Boston (Massachusetts) public schools begin the development of a comprehensive and coordinated writing program for grades kindergarten through twelve in each school…

Seeking to evaluate the impact of three summer workshops to improve the teaching of writing at all school levels, the sponsors of the workshops (Georgia State University/Southeast Center for the Teaching of Writing) used both a telephone survey of half the people attending two of the workshops and four pretest-posttest instruments. The instruments…

This project was the third in a proposed 5-phase project for developing vocational education curriculum for junior and senior high school students. Thirteen vocational education teachers participated during the period from July 13 to October 15, 1966. A specific objective for each participant was to develop a 1-semester course in his particular…

Vanderbilt University's 1969 EPDA Summer In-Service Institute for Training in Portuguese was a flexible, dual program in the fields of foreign language (specifically Portuguese) and English as a second language. Objectives were to provide: (1) adequately trained personnel to maintain and develop existing conventional secondary school Portuguese…