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Learner-Centered Inquiry in Undergraduate Biology: Positive Relationships with Long-Term Student Achievement
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Derting, Terry L.; Ebert-May, Diane – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2010
We determined short- and long-term correlates of a revised introductory biology curriculum on understanding of biology as a process of inquiry and learning of content. In the original curriculum students completed two traditional lecture-based introductory courses. In the revised curriculum students completed two new learner-centered,…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Field Tests, Biology, Learning Experience
An Empirical Study of Curriculum Dissemination in the FE/HE Sector and Some Matters Arising.
Humphries, M.; And Others – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1984
Reviews published works of a team of teachers at Blackpool and Fylde College involved in research on curriculum dissemination in further and higher education, including a survey about senders and receivers of curriculum information. Progress in a study concerned with field-testing a model for improvement of curriculum dissemination is discussed.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Field Tests, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Effective Management of Multiple Roles: Family and Work. Final Report.
Couch, Anna Sue; And Others – 1992
A model program was developed for helping parents, students, teachers, and businesspersons deal effectively with the interrelatedness of work and family responsibilities. Various research procedures, including focus group discussions and mail and telephone surveys administered to adolescent students' parents, and businesspersons in the Lubbock and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Employed Parents, Field Tests, Home Economics
Native Peoples of the Southwest: Development of a Multicultural Instructional Program.
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Shaffer-Nahmias, Susan L. – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1990
Describes an objective-based curriculum, Native Peoples of the Southwest, that was developed to educate elementary school children about Native American cultures. Program materials are described, including printed materials, slides, audiotapes, overhead transparencies, and artifacts; field testing is reported; and guidelines are offered for…
Descriptors: Audiotape Cassettes, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Field Tests
A Design and Assessment of a Formative Evaluation of the Principles of Technology Curriculum Materials.
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McKinney, Floyd L.; Kohan, Alan – 1986
The National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) was consulted to improve the formative evaluation design for the Principles of Technology (PT) curriculum materials developed by the Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) and the Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT). Because the NCRVE entered the formative…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Research
Senior Adults on the Go. A 310 Final Project Report. Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985.
Stephens, Barbara; Jacobus, Jane – 1985
A four-phase project was undertaken to expand adult basic education (ABE) program outreach to meet the needs of the underserved, rurally isolated, older residents of south and southwest Iowa. The first phase of the project consisted of an advisory committee project review, a series of ABE staff interviews of senior citizens residing in the area,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Aging (Individuals), Consumer Education