Following the exponential increase in the global usage of the Internet as one of the main tools for communication, the Internet established itself as the fourth most powerful media. In a similar vein, computer literacy education and related courses established themselves as the essential components of the Faculty of Communication and Media…

In 2002, the University of California, San Diego ArtsBridge America program initiated a project that was designed to address the lack of standards-based geography content and culture-based arts instruction within San Diego elementary schools.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether different types of practice strategies are equally effective in facilitating encoding strategies and in subsequent information acquisition and retrieval by students identified as possessing high, medium, and low prior knowledge levels in a content area. Within the context of the…

Many students in the United States do not possess a sound geographic vocabulary. This study compared two instructional methods, drill and varied activities, that might be used to develop that vocabulary. Eighth-grade social studies classes at three sites (one urban, one rural, and one transitional) were used to assess learning of the 50 United…

In a demonstration of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's (AEL's) Community Partnership for School Improvement model, Hart County (Kentucky) community members and school representatives planned and implemented a school improvement project to increase parents' involvement in their children's education. In May 1988, 203 out of 625 questionnaires…

This report describes two programs in Saginaw, Michigan, that are designed to meet the special education needs of bilingual and migrant students. The focus of the report is a product evaluation using the results of students' test performance. The Section 41 State Bilingual Education Program and the Chapter 1 Migrant Education Program operated at…

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of three levels of personalization--individual, group, and non-personalized--on the achievement of seventh grade Hispanic boys and girls on mathematics word problems. Subjects were 123 seventh grade Hispanic students from a rural junior high school near Phoenix, Arizona. A pretest…

In the spring of 1988, the High School Outreach Community Service Project was conceived at Sonoma State University (SSU) to teach Marin County students to use the academic libraries and to develop search strategies to locate and evaluate information on any given topic. The program addressed community needs, namely the development and/or furthering…

A multilevel approach was used to examine determinants of growth in grade 8 mathematics achievement in Thailand. Data for 99 mathematics teachers and their 4,030 eighth graders (the 14-year-old cohort) were taken from the Second International Mathematics Study (1981-82) of the International Association for the Assessment of Educational…

The Center for Remediation Design and Brandeis University (Massachusetts) conducted a series of telephone interviews to develop a manual of assessment for Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) youth programs. These interviews were conducted with youth planners in each service delivery area during August 1987. The goal of this project was to explore…

This report describes the process undertaken at Midland Technical College (MTC) for developing and implementing an institutional effectiveness assessment project using student outcomes measures as an integral part of the assessment methodology. First, the report presents the background to the project, reviewing MTC's involvement as a model…

Outcome data are presented for students who participated in the 1985-1986 College Discovery and Development (CDD) program, which is affiliated with the City University of New York, and provides basic skills instruction in reading, writing, and/or mathematics. Information is included on the participants rate; reading, writing, and mathematics test…

A course syllabus for one-, two-, and four-year institutions was developed as a possible format for awarding credit for televised training of child care providers. "Spoonful of Lovin'" was designed as a series of five 30-minute programs to develop child care skills necessary to family day care providers, parents, and teachers. Episodes explored…

Responding to the Texas Education Agency's (TEA) "Essential Computing Competencies for Educators" (1983), the teacher's education program at Texas A&M University developed several computer literacy courses for its students. An evaluation was conducted of the first of these courses, "Microcomputer Literacy for Educators," to…

A major applied research project evaluated the effectiveness of a novel course, Offshore Survival Systems Training. The major course outcome that was evaluated was the increase in frequency with which offshore personnel correctly launched the covered powered survival craft on offshore drilling rigs. The evaluation methodology included the 628…