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Cho, Jung-il – 1988
Many researchers believe that prior knowledge is the single most important variable influencing learning. Learning in the classroom is determined or affected positively or negatively, to some degree, by the knowledge people bring to the classroom. This study was designed to: (1) assess fifth- and eighth-grade Korean students' misconceptions of…
Descriptors: Biology, Botany, Comprehension, Concept Formation
Anderson, O. Roger – 1989
Some understanding of biology is needed for the success of individuals in modern societies. This monograph is a report of an assessment of educational achievement by a sample of secondary school biology students in the United States within the context of current knowledge of teaching and learning strategies, the role of biological literacy in…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Biology, Comparative Education, Mathematics Tests
Tashjian, Michael D.; And Others – 1991
Part of a 3-year study of the Chapter 1 Neglected or Delinquent (Chapter 1 N or D) Program, which provides compensatory education services to youth in state-operated juvenile and adult correctional facilities, this report presents descriptive findings in the following five areas: (1) characteristics of youth; (2) correctional education; (3)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Compensatory Education, Correctional Education, Delinquent Rehabilitation
White, Richard T.; And Others – 1989
The program described in this paper was designed to address two sets of questions, one concerning the nature of classroom teaching and learning of science in secondary schools and the other concerning their mechanisms. The program consisted of four phases: (1) "Establishment" (emphasizing trust between teachers and consultants); (2)…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction
Robinson, Rhonda S. – 1985
A 5-year case study was implemented to evaluate the two-way Carroll Instructional Television Consortium, which utilizes a cable television network serving four school districts in Illinois. This network permits simultaneous video and audio interactive communication among four high schools. The naturalistic inquiry method employed included…
Descriptors: Cable Television, Case Studies, Consortia, Educational Television
Jochums, Brenda – 1980
This study identified the demographic and attitudinal characteristics of student and teacher audiences to provide background information for the development of the General Mathematics Instructional Television Series for the ninth and tenth grades, a series intended to promote increased awareness of applications of mathematics in everyday life and…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, High School Students, Instructional Design, Mathematics Curriculum
Barnes, Ronald E.; Murphy, John F. – 1985
Public schools are often faced, when engaged in the task of developing annual goals, with the necessity of soliciting public input. To gather reliable input from the school community has been haphazard and uneven. Consolidated High School District 230 (Palos Hills, Illinois) employed the Public Opinion Laboratory, a professional survey firm, to…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Community Surveys, Educational Assessment
Morgan, Daniel; Hecht, Jeffrey – 1990
This report describes the methodology used in an evaluation study to measure the effectiveness of the West End Special Education Local Plan Area's program for improving the transition of special needs students from secondary school into adult life. Goals of the San Bernardino, California, study included measuring students' quality of life upon…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
Biggs, John B. – 1987
This manual describes the theory behind the Learning Process Questionnaire (LPQ) used in Australia and defines what the subscale and scale scores mean. The LPQ is a 36-item self-report questionnaire that yields scores on three basic motives for learning and three learning strategies, and on the approaches to learning that are formed by these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
Chilcoat, George W. – 1985
The document provides United States history teachers with suggested teaching techniques from a variety of popular culture genre used during the thirties to help secondary students examine various social, cultural, economic, and political events, that encompass the Great Depression era. The popular culture forms described and discussed as…
Descriptors: Art, Creative Teaching, History Instruction, Instructional Innovation
Pfeiffenberger, G. Will; Zolandz, Ann Marie – 1989
The availability of relatively inexpensive hand calculators and microcomputers is believed to be having an important effect on the teaching of mathematics and science in the United States. The appropriateness of allowing the use of this technology on standardized tests has become a concern of educators and organizations involved in testing.…
Descriptors: Calculators, College Mathematics, College Science, Higher Education
Moe, Kim C.; Johnson, Marilyn F. – 1986
This study investigated participants' reactions to computerized testing and assessed the practicability of this testing method in the classroom. A sample of 315 secondary-level students took a computerized and a printed version of a standardized aptitude test battery and a survey assessing their reactions to the computerized testing. Overall…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Administrator Attitudes, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
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Ben-Chaim, David; Zoller, Uri – International Journal of Science Education, 1991
Presents the STS (science/technology/society) outlook profiles of 546 eleventh graders from Israeli high schools within the existing science, nonscience, and technological tracks in terms of cognition, behavior, and literacy. Findings indicate significant differences between the profiles for students regarding behavior and literacy but not for…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Cognitive Measurement, Foreign Countries, Grade 11
Terwilliger, James S. – 1987
This study was designed to obtain descriptive data on the classroom evaluation practices of secondary teachers in two different public school systems. A self-report survey instrument was employed to collect data from 217 teachers in York, England, and 217 teachers in Minnesota. Respondents were asked to indicate which specific techniques they…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Practices, Evaluation Criteria
Agency for Instructional Television, Bloomington, IN. – 1982
"Give & Take" is a series of 12 15-minute television/film programs and related print materials on consumer economics designed to improve the economic knowledge and decision-making skills of 13- to 15-year-old students. This report describes the processes and presents the results of"Give & Take" formative evaluations…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Decision Making Skills, Economics Education, Educational Research
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