This paper explores a particular contemporary instance of the implementation of central government policy linking higher education and sustainable development. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)'s strategic plan for 2006-2011 (HEFCE 2006) includes a commitment to establish a baseline assessment of the contribution of the…

School curriculum and its impact on teaching and learning have received more and more research attention both in the United States and in the international context. For example, the Third International Mathematics and Science Studies (TIMSS) took curriculum and its different forms in the process of curriculum transformation as a guideline to…

Article considered the areas of most of the researches into art education and the problem of establishing clarity and priority in the theoretical framework of studies in the field. (Author/RK)

This study examined the status of elementary social studies in South Dakoa in relation to: (1) instructional time; (2) instructional strategies; (3) the use of the textbook and other materials; (4) the availability of professional growth resources; (5) specific subject and skill areas of emphasis; and (6) the professional perceptions of principals…

Described are some of the activities, roles, problems and projects of the Education (Research) Committee of the Association for Science Education. (PEB)

Current interest in curriculum is of four types. First, there is an interest in analyzing and describing aspects of curriculum, both in terms of what actually goes on in schools and in terms of how curriculum policy is made and implemented. This field of inquiry is well established. Not so thoroughly investigated is a second area, the attempt to…

Three domains of problems are the subject of this report: problems related to the nature of the Inquiry Role Approach (IRA) project implementation in field test classrooms, problems related to student performance associated with different kinds of extent of project implementation, and problems related to project student performance within the…

In German, this article asserts that present concepts of evaluation are too narrow for curriculum evaluation. Research must differentiate different forms and roles of evaluation, produce a curriculum evaluation model, and resolve problems of values and judgement. The second section discusses the different forms and roles of evaluation: formative…

This report is a compilation of reports and abstracts relating to research and innovative instructional activities conducted at Santa Fe Junior College (Florida) during the 1970-71 academic year. It is the third of an annual series and serves to document what has been tried at the college to encourage others to re-examine and experiment, and to…

This study tested the hypothesis that teacher involvement in curriculum evaluation facilitates curriculum implementation. Curriculum implementation is defined as a function of the elements(s) of a particular referent curriculum. A random sample of 24 teachers, eight taken from each of three grade levels, served as subjects(S's) for experimental…

This paper offers suggestions about facilities to support curriculum development, based on the principles that the motive power for such a development should come primarily from local groups of teachers accessible to one another, and that there should be effective and close collaboration between teachers and all those who are able to offer…

Comments on a previous paper analyzing the meaning of "curriculum." (MLF)

A sample of 328 freshman economics students is disaggregated by the students' gender, previous knowledge of economics, attitudes toward economics, and innate abilities. Results show that students learn more economics if they take microeconomics before macroeconomics. Appended are 14 references. (MLF)

This paper focuses on some of the issues from a study that questioned the validity of the proposal advanced by the influential North American curriculum movement referred to as "Discipline-Based Art Education" (DBAE); that the methods and understanding of artists, art critics, aestheticians, and art historians can be represented in a…

Results from a study based in the area of clinical dietetics could be adapted for use in other health occupations involved in the delivery of client-mediated care, and should contribute to an understanding of changing curriculum objectives resulting from changing clinical practice and provide a dynamic base for curriculum improvement. (SA)