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Wuwen Zhang; Yurong Guan; Zhihua Hu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
In the context of our rapidly digitizing society, computational thinking stands out as an essential attribute for cultivating aptitude and expertise. Through the prism of computational thinking, learners are more adeptly positioned to dissect and navigate real-world challenges, poising them effectively to meet the exigencies of future societal…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Greveling, Linda; Amsing, Hilda T. A.; Dekker, Jeroen J. H. – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
Dutch comprehensive education eventually failed on a political level, despite support from many politicians, labour unions and branches in the educational practice. In the early 1970s denominational political parties strove for a Middle School to provide equal opportunities of all children by postponing school choice. From 1973 onwards, however,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Middle School Students, Equal Education
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Amsing, Hilda T. A.; Greveling, Linda; Dekker, Jeroen J. H. – History of Education, 2013
This article focuses on how Dutch newspapers represented the debate in the Netherlands in the 1970s on comprehensive education and thus influenced the Dutch Middle School experiment. Wiborg's identification of key factors of success in Scandinavia was used as a point of reference. The article shows that these key factors did not exist in the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Secondary Education, Educational Innovation, News Reporting
Culp, Katie McMillan; Keane, Julie Thompson; Meade, Terri; Nudell, Hannah – Education Development Center, Inc., 2004
Between May 2003 and January 2004, Education Development Center's Center for Children and Technology (CCT) undertook a formative evaluation of Design and Discovery, a hands-on, project-based design and engineering curriculum being disseminated as part of the Intel Innovation in Education initiatives. The Design and Discovery curriculum invites 11-…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Formative Evaluation, Engineering, Educational Technology