A primary goal of university instruction is the students' demonstration of improved, highly developed critical thinking (CT) skills. However, how do faculty encourage CT and its potential concomitant increase in student workload without negatively impacting student perceptions of the course? In this investigation, an advanced biology course is…

In the global higher education sector, government accountability initiatives are increasingly focused on degree-level competencies that may be expected from university graduates. The purpose of this paper was to examine the extent to which SoTL reflects this increased interest in student learning across the degree program. Articles (N = 136)…

Over the last decade, enrollment in Information Systems (IS) and related programs has dropped worldwide and still remains low despite positive job market predictions. Given the significant negative consequences of low enrollments on both academia and industry, the IS community has focused its efforts on mechanisms to increase enrollments. This…

The aim was to revise a statistics course in order to get the students motivated to learn statistics and to integrate statistics more throughout a psychology course. Further, we wish to make students become more interested in statistics and to help them see the importance of using statistics in psychology research. To achieve this goal, several…

The paper related what has been accomplished during the past six years in the development of IPI Science at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh. There have been three major accomplishments: (1) Goals for the program have been established, (2) The serious problems that face a group of curriculum developers…

Discusses teaching science as useful knowledge, as a process, or as technology. (RH)

A unit on probability and statistics was introduced into 18 ninth-grade general mathematics classes. The effects of this unit on teacher attitude, student attitude, and student achievement in several selected mathematical areas were investigated. The experimental group of 18 classes and a comparison group of 17 classes were tested before and after…

Presents some findings about student understanding of science within the context of the Israeli Biological Sciences Curriculum Study-adaptation project. Gives a historical review of studies related to teacher effectiveness and reaches some conclusions about their value. Reports on some teacher effectiveness studies conducted in Israel. (GS)

Analyzes the factors linked with the adoption of new curriculum projects by teachers for possible implications for the development of new projects. (LS)

Describes an environmental studies course for first year high school students and the rationale behind the course development. (BR)

Under a 1972 grant from the National Science Foundation's College Science Improvement Program (CoSIP), Worcester Polytechnic Institute undertook a major educational experiment involving the total reorientation of its educational programs. The encompassing effort is referred to as the WPI PLAN. Several modes of evaluation have been and continue to…

Lists examples of affective objectives from three secondary school science syllabi and from the Australian Science Education Project. Presents 15 teacher responses to the question, "what do classroom teachers do about the affective area?" (GS)

This document contains the following titles: 1) Students' Use of Diagrams and Visuality in Mathematics; 2) Papua New Guinea University Student Attitudes to Mathematics; 3) Research on the Teaching of Problem Solving at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology: Retrospect and Prospect; 4) Adult Numeracy with a Calculator: Some Problems; 5) A…

In order to dismantle racism through development of new curricula and positive pedagogic practices, education professionals must be informed about the history, structure, and culture of racism. An examination of the nature of schooling demonstrates that the education system is a crucial component of a racist state, by propounding a racist…

The Individual Mathematics Teaching Project (IMU) has been under development in the upper level (grades 7-9) of the comprehensive school in Sweden since 1964. Its goals are (1) to construct and test self-instruction study material in mathematics, (2) to find suitable teaching methods and work forms for the use of this material, (3) to try out…