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Monica V. Locker; Jennifer L. A. Whelan – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Curriculum mapping provides valuable opportunities for internal reflection and external advocacy in academic libraries. Librarians at a small liberal-arts college developed a curriculum mapping project designed to measure information literacy interventions with students, despite a lack of a standardized set of courses that all students take over…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Reflection, Advocacy
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Puckett, Cassidy; Gravel, Brian E. – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: Many schools no longer track classes to increase access to courses at all levels, including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. However, informal processes can "de facto" track students, placing them at the same level across subjects. Research shows that de facto tracking is prevalent in…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Access to Education, Track System (Education), Student Placement
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Belmont, Christopher – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2014
The purpose of this article is to provide evidence of how an integrated high school health, physical education, and wellness program can be implemented. In addition to describing the process used to develop and maintain this wellness curriculum, the article describes the content of the curriculum and how the teachers were able to capture and hold…
Descriptors: Wellness, Integrated Curriculum, Program Implementation, High Schools
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2018
This Framework is built upon the foundation of the 2003 and 1997 "Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Frameworks." Based in research on effective practice, it represents the contributions of members of the History and Social Science Curriculum Framework Review Panel, scholars who served as Content Advisors, and the more…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, History, Social Sciences
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2018
Researchers have found that middle school students undergo developmental changes that require unique educational structures and support. As a result, experts have suggested a number of specific strategies for organizing middle schools in order to best meet students' needs. This Information Capsule summarizes middle school redesign initiatives that…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Students, Educational Environment, Educational Change
Soffer, Rosanne S. – Engl J, 1970
Discusses English program of multiple electives in a small high school; a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (59th, Washington, D.C., November 28, 1969). (SW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elective Courses, English Curriculum, Secondary Education
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Research and Assessment. – 1985
This report summarizes the results of a study conducted to provide a complete and documented picture of public secondary education in Massachusetts. The study involved an analysis of questionnaire data and transcripts from about 3,000 graduates in the 1984 school year. Specifically, the study addressed the following questions: (1) How do student…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Course Selection (Students), Curriculum Design, Elective Courses
Hayward, Robert R. – Todays Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Elective Courses, Relevance (Education), School Community Relationship
Pratt, Francis; Haley, Frances – 1973
A local history course offered as a semester elective to seniors has as its purpose the study of the local community as a microcosm of the United States. The basic principle is to reinforce what the student has already learned in previous history courses. The course proceeds through a chronological sequence of units about various periods of the…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Study, Educational Innovation, Elective Courses
Robinson, Mabel Louise – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1918
The modern college for women, evolving by rapid growth from recent simple beginnings to its present highly complex state, is unquestionably still in the process of development. A glance over the changes already accomplished brings conviction that the present situation is but a stage in the life history of a virile institution. That present…
Descriptors: Females, Educational History, Womens Education, College Curriculum