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Reich, Gabriel A. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2009
This article explores the reasoning employed by high school students to answer a set of multiple-choice history questions. The questions come from New York State's Global History and Geography Regents exam. The Regents exams, together with a particularly well-regarded and ambitious set of content standards, are the cornerstone of the state's…
Descriptors: Test Items, Discipline, Protocol Analysis, State Standards
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Stillwell, Robert – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
This report presents the number of high school graduates, the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), and dropout data for grades 9 through 12 for public schools in school year 2006-07. The counts of graduates, dropouts, and enrollments by grade (which serve as the denominators for the graduation and dropout rates) are from the National Center…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Secondary Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Bureau of Curriculum Development. – 1967
This curriculum bulletin in Business Mathematics is intended primarily for teachers of tenth grade pupils who are being trained for specific office and sales positions. The format of this syllabus has been organized to provide representative sample problems for each of three categories of pupils who (1) are currently functioning at an average…
Descriptors: Business Education, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
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Benson, Herbert; And Others – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1994
High school students' self-esteem and locus of control were evaluated before, during, and after exposure to either a health curriculum based on elicitation of the relaxation-response with follow-up or a control health curriculum followed by the relaxation-response. The experimental group significantly increased self-esteem and internal locus of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Grade 10, Health Education, High School Students
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Grant, S. G.; Derme-Insinna, Alison; Gradwell, Jill M.; Pullano, Lynn; Lauricella, Ann Marie; Tzezo, Kathryn – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2002
In New York, state-level policymakers have invested considerable political and economic capital in new tests as both a measure of accountability and as a vehicle for increased educational standards. In this study, we look at how 9th and 10th grade global history teachers are making sense of the first administration of a new 10th grade global…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Grade 10, World History, History Instruction
Stahl, Steven A.; And Others – 1991
Using a newspaper article about a ceremony marking the retirement of baseball player Tom Seaver's uniform number, a study examined: (1) the effects of knowledge of baseball in general and of the career of Tom Seaver in particular; and (2) the effects of knowledge of word meanings in general and of words used in the passage specifically on 10th…
Descriptors: Baseball, Context Clues, Grade 10, High Schools
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Occupational Education Curriculum Development. – 1980
This curriculum guide is designed to provide students with opportunities to explore different careers related to agriculture, to develop basic skills and knowledge related to the agriculture industry, and to make an intelligent selection of the speciality fields in agriculture that they will pursue in the eleventh and twelvth grades. An…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Occupations
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Dulski, Richard E.; Raven, Ronald J. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1994
A study concurrently identified significant relationships between the attitudes of high school students toward nuclear energy, environmental issues, energy concepts, science concepts, space exploration, and metrication topical areas. Surveys indicated there were significant concurrent attitudinal relationships between specific science-related…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Energy, Environment, Grade 10
Zuckerman, June Trop – 1997
The purpose of this paper is to inform novice science teachers and science teacher educators of the pedagogy that science teacher supervisors value. As expert practitioners, supervisors have a perspective quite different from that of both novice teachers and teacher educators. Nine inservice science teacher supervisors assessed a novice teacher's…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Beginning Teachers, Biology, Classroom Techniques
Cavallo, Ann Liberatore – 1992
This 1-week study explored the extent to which high school students (n=140) acquired meaningful understanding of selected biological topics (meiosis and the Punnett square method) and the relationship between these topics. This study: (1) examined "mental modeling" as a technique for measuring students' meaningful understanding of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Biology, Cognitive Style
Cavallo, Ann Liberatore – 1992
This study investigated the retention of meaningful understanding of the biological topics of meiosis, the Punnett square method and the relations between these two topics. This study also explored the predictive influence of students' general tendency to learn meaningfully or by rote (meaningful learning orientation), prior knowledge of meiosis,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation
Sutphin, Dean; Newsom-Stewart, Mhora – 1992
A pilot study was conducted to field test instruments that could be used to assess, evaluate, and improve curricula to be used in the Agri Tech Prep 2000 (ATP 2000) project. The project features a 4-year tech prep program linking New York high school and postsecondary curricula to prepare students for careers in agriculture or acceptance into a…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Career Choice, Economic Status, Educational Attainment
Veres, Helen C.; Carmichael, Mary Margaret – 1981
A project developed and tested methods to reduce sex-role stereotyping in occupational education programs. A total of 460 students completed two surveys that obtained information on background, education and career plans, influences on choice of occupation, perceptions of support for nontraditional career choice, and perceptions of occupational…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Education, Decision Making
Newsom-Stewart, Mhora; Sutphin, Dean – 1994
Two counselors, five teachers, four administrators, and seven 10th- and 11th-grade students at three New York schools offering pilot agricultural tech prep programs as part of the Agri Tech Prep 2000 (ATP 2000) project were interviewed. The interviews focused on the participants' understanding of and attitudes toward tech prep, the status of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Agricultural Education, Articulation (Education), Concept Mapping
Hawke, Sharryl – 1974
At Northport High School, New York, the subject of human rights is dealt with in a tenth grade European Cultures Studies course. The ten week unit treats the concept of human rights as well as historical and current cases focusing on basic liberties. As students study the individual cases involving human rights, they delve into the political and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Current Events
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