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Values Affirmation Intervention Reduces Achievement Gap between Underrepresented Minority and White Students in Introductory Biology Classes
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Jordt, Hannah; Eddy, Sarah L.; Brazil, Riley; Lau, Ignatius; Mann, Chelsea; Brownell, Sara E.; King, Katherine; Freeman, Scott – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Achievement gaps between underrepresented minority (URM) students and their white peers in college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classrooms are persistent across many white-majority institutions of higher education. Attempts to reduce this phenomenon of underperformance through increasing classroom structure via active learning…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Biology, Minority Group Students, White Students
The DIT and the 'Dark Side' of Development.
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Puka, Bill – Journal of Moral Education, 2002
Argues that effective moral education must address roadblocks in moral thinking, not merely urging moral development forward. Examines Lawrence Kohlberg's moral stages as immoral judgement marked by bias and manipulation. Views the Defining Issues Test (DIT) as a useful glimpse into the nefarious, focused on ideological content and commitment.…
Descriptors: Bias, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Ideology
Preparing Teachers for Multicultural Classroom Environments: The Roles of Literature and the Posacculturation Processes.
Ehle, Maryann J. – 1983
Books have acculturated and perpetuated group social, political, and economic beliefs as well as individual emotions, attitudes, values, and behaviors. Educators must be wary of literature which perpetuates misconceptions, negative impressions, and insensibilities. A review of books which depict members of cultural groups as strong, positive, and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Cultural Awareness
Elementary, Middle, and High School Guides for Teaching about Human Rights Appendix.
Detroit Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Curriculum Development Services. – 1981
This appendix to the guides for teaching about human rights at the elementary, middle, and high school levels features instructional activities and materials which represent a variety of cultural perspectives. Among the topics addressed are the role of values and ethics in decision making, prejudice, racial and ethnic stereotyping, social skills…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Civil Liberties, Cross Cultural Training, Ethical Instruction
Career Education. A Mini-Course Curriculum Guide.
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Vocational Education. – 1979
This junior high school career education curriculum guide contains lesson plans intended to serve as a basis for a nine-week minicourse in career education. Sixteen lesson plans are included in the guide: (1) Social Security, (2) A Career Is Calling, (3) Stereotyping, (4) Values Clarification, (5) Decision-Making, (6) Aptitude Tests, (7) Career…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Education
Learning Support. 1. Introductory Element.
Faraday, Sally; Harris, Richard – 1989
This document is the introductory module of a 9-module set within an 11-unit resource pack designed to help trainers and postsecondary and continuing education staff meet the needs of special needs students in Great Britain. Having completed this module, staff should be able to: (1) recognize and counter the effects of stereotyped images and…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education