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Goel, Sanjay – Online Submission, 2010
Community and culture significantly influence value orientation, perceived needs, and motivation as well as provide the ground for creating shared understanding. All disciplines have their own cultures, and all cultures evolve through cross-cultural exchanges. The computing community has created and documented a sound body of knowledge of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Engineering Education, Investigations, Educational Research
Rupe, Vickie S. – 1986
The purpose of this study is to present information that will help educators to gain a better understanding of microcomputer capabilities and limitations and to inform them as to the role of microcomputers in the classroom. Through examination of studies and articles six topics related to computer-assisted instruction (CAI) are addressed: (1) age…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction
Yunker, Jonel Jones – 1992
This project sought to develop a global education curriculum at the secondary level by developing a rationale and support for a global education curriculum; surveying teachers at North Adams High School as to what they would like to include in the course of study that related to global education; contacting various state departments of education…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Global Education, High Schools, International Education
Pungwa, Lawrence – 1982
Receptivity of educators to a sample integrated social studies curriculum to replace the present single subject discipline curriculum in Zambian junior secondary schools was investigated. Geography, history, and civics teachers from 50 schools in 7 of Zambia's 9 school regions considered a proposed curriculum which seeks to promote social…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Developing Nations, Educational Assessment
Thiel, Robb G. – 1989
Music education in today's educational system has been fighting for its existence as a curricular subject, with many school systems finding it convenient to keep the classification of music-related activities in limbo. Music educators must be prepared to defend their programs and educational objectives or face a future of extra-curricular status…
Descriptors: Bands (Music), Cognitive Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Problems
Forsythe, Barbara – 1986
The purpose of this study was to determine if a multidimensional treatment in the study of the content area of social studies would help the average and below average student. The 37 fifth-grade students in this study came from a middle-socioeconomic level of north central New Jersey. The 18 students in the experimental sample received special…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education