The "Multiple Intelligences, Curriculum and Assessment Project" at University College Cork was a collaborative project carried out between 1995 and 1999. The key research question focused on whether Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences could be applied to, and enhance, aspects of curriculum and assessment at primary and…

This practicum concentrated on the need for a social studies critical thinking continuum in the middle school. An oral interview with personnel in one Florida school district's Social Studies Program Development Department revealed that a critical thinking continuum did not exist. A review of the literature on critical thinking indicated that many…

The document presents reports of Summer Resource Personnel Workshops held at the University of Minnesota, Morris, Minnesota, in 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1975 to improve precollegiate social science education. Objectives of the workshops were to train educators as resource personnel; implement and disseminate projects in anthropology, geography, and…