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New Tech High Schools: Results of the National Survey of Project Based Learning and High School Reform conducted by the Buck Institute for Education
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Ravitz, Jason – Buck Institute for Education, 2008
In the fall of 2007, the Buck Institute for Education (BIE) conducted a national survey of high school reform and project based learning (PBL). The study included teachers from several major high school reform networks that emphasize PBL as an instructional approach: New Tech High, High Tech High, Edvision Schools, and Envision Schools. It also…
Descriptors: High Schools, Student Projects, School Restructuring, Active Learning
Formative Evaluation of the Intel Seeing Reason Seminars (U.S.). Summary Report
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Wexler, Dara; Culp, Katie McMillan – Education Development Center, Inc., 2004
During the summer and fall of 2003, Education Development Center's Center for Children and Technology (CCT) undertook a formative evaluation of Seeing Reason: Mindful Mapping of Cause & Effect, an Intel Teach to the Future professional development seminar. Intel's seminars are designed to introduce teachers to software tools that they can use…
Descriptors: Seminars, Professional Development, Formative Evaluation, Educational Technology
Stepping Out of the Classroom and Up the Ladder of Learning: An Experiential Learning Approach to Entrepreneurship Education
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Cooper, Sarah; Bottomley, Colin; Gordon, Jillian – Industry and Higher Education, 2004
Academics in the field of entrepreneurship education are increasingly aware that, while class-based knowledge input is a vital component of learning, the traditional lecture-based, didactic methods of teaching and learning alone are insufficient. In an attempt to achieve 'real, active learning' various interactive techniques have been developed,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Student Projects, Foreign Countries, Active Learning
What Factors Inflence Teachers' Level of Follow Up on Their Training? Further Findings from the 2003 End of School Year Survey Intel Teach to the Future[R] U.S. Classic Implementation. CCT Reports
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Martin, Wendy; Kanaya, Tomoe; Crichton, Jacinth – Education Development Center, Inc., 2004
This report is an addendum to a previous report summarizing teacher responses to a survey administered to U.S. Classic Master and Participant Teachers in April 2003. It specifically examines the factors that influence whether and to what degree teachers follow up on their experience with Intel Teach to the Future. examines a key evaluation…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education
An Integrated Approach to Teaching Students the Use of Computers in Science.
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Hood, B. James – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1991
Reported is an approach to teaching the use of Macintosh computers to sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students within the context of a simplified model of scientific research including proposal, data collection and analyses, and presentation of findings. Word processing, graphing, statistical, painting, and poster software were sequentially…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Courseware, Educational Strategies
School to Career Activities and Academic Achievement: A Description of the East San Gabriel Valley Partnership.
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Adler, Laurel – 2000
The East San Gabriel Valley (California) School to Career Partnership encompassing the eastern sections of Los Angeles County and serving an ethnically diverse population, uses design-based learning (DBL) to teach academic and career skills to at-risk students in small groups. Key features of DBL classroom activities include the following: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Classroom Techniques, Cooperation