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Lynch, Sharon J.; Peters-Burton, Erin; Ford, Michael – Educational Leadership, 2015
In response to a report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, President Obama issued a challenge to the U.S. education system to create more than 1,000 new STEM-focused schools, including 200 high schools. Inclusive STEM-focused high schools--which focus their efforts on females, minorities, and students who are…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Educational Change
Sayler, Michael F. – Roeper Review, 2015
The University of North Texas's Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science began admitting students to its 2-year early college entrance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program in the fall of 1988. This program provided accelerated entry for top students in Texas in the areas of mathematics and science. Approximately 200…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Opportunities, Educational Development, Career Academies
Jaokar, Ajit – Educational Technology, 2013
This article discusses the evolution of computing education in preparing for the next wave of computing. With the proliferation of mobile devices, most agree that we are living in a "post-PC" world. Using the Raspberry Pi computer platform, based in the UK, as an example, the author discusses computing education in a world where the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Technological Advancement, Educational Development, Handheld Devices
Moore, Tamara; Richards, Larry G. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2012
This special issue of "Advances in Engineering Education" explores recent developments in P-12 Engineering Education. It includes papers devoted to research and practice, and reports some of the most exciting work in the field today. In our Call of Papers, we solicited two types of papers: Research papers and Practice papers. The former…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Educational Research, Educational Practices, Educational Development
Harrison, Christine – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2013
This paper sets out to explore science teachers' classroom assessment practices and outlines some of the tensions and synergies in changing assessment practices. It describes episodes from a collaborative action research project with science teachers designed to support the strengthening of classroom assessment practices--the King's Researching…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Action Research, Feedback (Response), Classroom Techniques
St. John, Mark; Castori, Pam – Inverness Research, 2014
The Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI) is a program that seeks to develop a skilled local STEM workforce to meet the needs of Hawai'i's growing high-tech industry. Launched as an internship program in 2002, AWI is the result of a long-term collaboration among the University of California Santa Cruz's Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Descriptions, Educational Development, Labor Force Development
Martinez Luaces, Victor; Velazquez, Blanca; Dee, Valerie – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2009
We analyse the origin and development of an Experimental Design course which has been taught in several faculties of the Universidad de la Republica and other institutions in Uruguay, over a 10-year period. At the end of the course, students were assessed by carrying out individual work projects on real-life problems, which was innovative for…
Descriptors: Research Design, Student Projects, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education, 2007
In 2002, HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) carried out a review of the contribution of the Scottish science centres to formal and informal science education as part of a broader review of all science centres in the United Kingdom. This report identifies many strengths in individual centres and across the network. It is clear that the centres…
Descriptors: Science Education, Foreign Countries, Best Practices, Science Course Improvement Projects
Offerings and Enrollments in Science and Mathematics in Public High Schools, 1956. Pamphlet No. 120.
Brown, Kenneth E.; Obourn, Ellsworth S. – 1957
This study provides data on the offerings and enrollment in science and mathematics in public high schools during the fall of 1956. The information was obtained from a 10% sample of these schools selected at random. The same schools were used for a similar survey in 1954 and the data in that survey are compared with the data in the 1956 survey.…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Educational Development, High Schools, Mathematics Education

Kieffer, William F. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1980
Presented are the author's impressions of the status of chemical education during the period from the mid-fifties to late sixties. (HM)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Curriculum Development, Educational Development
Bulletin, 1978
Presents the results of a survey of science teaching conducted in the public high schools of New Jersey in 1977-78 school year. These results are divided into three main areas: teacher assignment and conditions, statistics on subject matter organization, and statistics on supervisory personnel. (HM)
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Research, High Schools, Instructional Materials

Hockey, S. W. – Physics Education, 1973
Discusses measurement techniques developed in the Nuffield A level physical science assessment and statistical results obtained in 1968 and 1971. Concludes that individual projects are contributors of positive and valuable educational experiences to the course. (CC)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Development, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods

Sabar, Naama – Science Education, 1979
Presents pattern of trends in science curriculum reform for elementary and secondary schools that blossomed in the middle of the 1960s. A brief review is also included to show how the society has affected the different stages of the curriculum movement. (HM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Leonard, William H. – Journal of Biological Education, 2004
This article presents a brief history of the events leading up to the current US biology education standards, a brief examination of the National Science Education Standards for biology, and a description of the three recently developed biology curricula that were designed to address the new standards. Several evaluative studies of these curricula…
Descriptors: Biology, Academic Standards, National Standards, Science Education

Lockard, J. David, Comp. – 1975
This is a report on a two-day conference, held at the University of Maryland in August of 1974, to examine the impact of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on science curriculum development in the United States. The conference covered the improvement of science teaching materials and instruction development as well as the overall…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Conferences, Curriculum Development, Educational Development
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