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Direct linkParker, Becky – School Science Review, 2017
The Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) was set up to give science students the opportunity to work on cutting-edge research projects. Teachers and students can access data and equipment that enable them to tackle real-life issues. As a result, not only do students gain in confidence and experience in their scientific work, they are also able…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Physics, Science Activities
Download full textWolanin, Natalie; Wade, Julie – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2015
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…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Grants, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
BARTLETT, C.J.; EDGERTON, HAROLD A. – 1966
THE OUTCOMES OF THE 1960 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION-SPONSORED SUMMER SCIENCE TRAINING PROGRAMS (SSTP) FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE EXAMINED THROUGH A DETERMINATION OF PARTICIPANTS' CHARACTERISTICS BEFORE, AND THEIR ACTIVITIES AFTER, PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAMS. THIS ANALYSIS PROVIDED A MEANS OF COMPARING PROGRAMS IN TERMS OF THE TYPES OF…
Descriptors: Institutes (Training Programs), Program Evaluation, Science Programs, Scientific Personnel
Kaplan, Eugene H. – Sea World, 1977
Describes institutes and field stations available for teaching tropical marine biology. (SL)
Descriptors: Field Trips, Institutes (Training Programs), Instruction, Marine Biology
Smith, Herbert A. – 1968
The institute was designed to provide intensive exposure to evaluation models and some important new evaluation techniques for persons employed in key administrative, supervisory, consultant, or instructional roles in science education. Seventy-seven persons participated in the Institute. A Semantic-Differential scale in pre- and post-response…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Evaluation, Institutes (Training Programs), Models
Peer reviewedSchubert, Leo – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1973
The National Science Foundation is shifting financial support from the traditional inservice programs to a cooperative arrangement between the school or school system and the college or university. (DF)
Descriptors: Editorials, Inservice Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Resource Materials
Peer reviewedPaldy, Lester G. – Physics Teacher, 1971
Impressions of an institute and a six-week educational visit to India are presented. Organizations of schools, teaching methods, availability of supplies, background of students, and teacher characteristics are related. (DS)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), International Education
Saint Anselm's Coll., Manchester, NH. – 1970
An 8-week summer institute for 32 secondary school teachers from New Hampshire and nearby states was designed to show them the activities of chemists in research and in manufacturing. Intentions were to improve their teaching skills by showing them how the chemistry that they are teaching is used in practice, thus enabling them to improve their…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Field Trips, Institutes (Training Programs), Science Programs
Peer reviewedSchool Science and Mathematics, 1972
Descriptors: Directories, Inservice Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Science Programs
Slawson, Wilber S. – Sch Sci Math, 1970
Presents the results of a follow-up study of the academic year institutes (AYI) in science conducted at the University of Virginia between 1957 and 1967. Reports that with this sample the objective of the National Science Foundation's AYIs to improve the overall quality of science education was accomplished. Lists six specific conclusions drawn…
Descriptors: Institutes (Training Programs), Science Programs, Science Teachers, Self Concept
Jorgensen, Harold Christen – 1966
Analyzed were participants in six Academic Year Institutes (AYI), 1957-62, and a systematic random selected one-half of the rejectees. Rejectees for 1960 were not included. Of 35 personal and professional characteristics a comparison was made between or among (1) acceptees and rejectees of each year, (2) acceptees for each year, (3) rejectees for…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Background, Institutes (Training Programs), Science Programs
Irby, Bobby Newell – 1967
This study investigated (1) whether or not the institute was accomplishing its objectives to upgrade science and mathematics teachers' competency and to remove academic deficiencies due to inadequate or inefficient academic training and (2) whether the objectives of the institute were based on valid assumptions. The study population consisted of…
Descriptors: College Science, Doctoral Dissertations, Institutes (Training Programs), Mathematics
Bauman, Daniel J.; And Others – 1970
The purpose of this paper is to provide summary data relative to the instruments developed for analysis of in-service institutes. This paper initiates a slightly different form of offering instruments for use by others. Rather than presenting a finished instrument with only summary data provided and all of the subjective decisions made, the reader…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
ZIOL, FRANK J. – 1966
AN INSTITUTE WAS CONDUCTED TO ASSIST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGES AND SKILLS ESSENTIAL FOR TEACHING SPECIALIZED TECHNICAL COURSES. THE PARTICIPANTS WERE 16 TEACHERS IN THE TECHNICAL-VOCATIONAL AREA OF INSTRUMENTATION. THE ACTIVITY INCLUDED LECTURE AND DISCUSSION, DEMONSTRATION, LABORATORY WORK, AND FIELD TRIPS. THE SCOPE OF THE PROGRAM…
Descriptors: Institutes (Training Programs), Instructional Improvement, Instrumentation, Science Programs
Peer reviewedLain Entralgo, Pedro – Revista de Occidente, 1973
Address presented at the Centennial Celebration of the Spanish Society of Natural History, November 1971, in Madrid. (DS)
Descriptors: Institutes (Training Programs), Natural Sciences, Science Facilities, Science History
