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Kyle, Aaron M.; Jangraw, David C.; Bouchard, Matthew B.; Downs, Matthew E. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2016
This paper presents the development, implementation, and assessment of a project-based Bioinstrumentation course. All course lectures and hands-on laboratory activities are related to a central project theme: a cardiac pacemaker. The students create a benchtop cardiac pacemaker by applying instrumentation knowledge acquired in the course to each…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Engineering Education, Biotechnology
Lockwood, Anne Turnbaugh – Focus in Change (Newsletter of the National Center for Effective Schools), 1991
Authentic performance assessments--when used simultaneously with matching curricular practices--are a promising development for practitioners and students alike. A major benefit for practitioners appears to be the opportunity to redefine the curriculum and guide instruction. Benefits for students include the opportunity to engage in authentic work…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Sweet, David; Zimmermann, Jacquelyn, Ed. – 1993
Portfolios, collections of student work representing a selection of performance, are being used in classrooms today in the tradition of the visual and performing arts in which they serve to showcase a student's best pieces and the student's evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the pieces. Portfolios are useful as a support to new…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Design, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students
Bergert, Susan, Ed. – LCCE Insider, 2000
These two newsletter issues are designed for users of the Council for Exceptional Children's Life Centered Career Education (LCCE) curriculum. The newsletter's goal is to inform practitioners of curriculum implementation ideas and transition issues and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas. Featured articles discuss how one district used…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Design, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities
Stein, Sondra – 2000
This document presents the Equipped for the Future Framework (EFF) content standards that were developed over a 6-year period by hundreds of adult education practitioners, experts, and others nationwide to create a working consensus on what adults need to know and be able to do in the 21st century. Chapter 1 defines adult literacy for the 21st…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy