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Using the DSAP Framework to Guide Instructional Design and Technology Integration in BYOD Classrooms
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Wasko, Christopher W. – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to determine the suitability of the DSAP Framework to guide instructional design and technology integration for teachers piloting a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) initiative and to measure the impact the initiative had on the amount and type of technology used in pilot classrooms. Quantitative and qualitative data were…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Technology Integration, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education
Redesigned High Schools for Transformed STEM Learning: Performance Assessment Pilot Outcome
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Ernst, Jeremy Vaughn; Glennie, Elizabeth J. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2015
This performance assessment pilot study was a major research component of the overall National Science Foundation funded Redesigned High Schools for Transformed STEM Learning Project. Secondary Earth/Environmental Science students' abilities to translate cognitive knowledge into demonstrable performance-based proficiencies were specifically…
Descriptors: STEM Education, High Schools, School Restructuring, Performance Based Assessment
How Laptops Digitize and Transform Learning
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Corn, Jenifer; Tingen, Jennifer; Argueta, Rodolfo; Patel, Ruchi; Stanhope, Daniel – Online Submission, 2010
Laptops have been shown to improve 21st century skills such as life and career skills, learning and innovation skills, and group collaboration, but how does this ever-present technology affect the thinking of today's "screenager"? Through an analysis of focus groups and surveys with students in 1:1 initiatives across North Carolina,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Focus Groups, Laptop Computers, Educational Technology
A Pilot Study of the Social and Educational Impact of School Desegregation.
King, Charles E.; Mayer, Robert R. – 1971
In October 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all dual school districts must be merged immediately into unified systems. The Southern City School system, N.C., developed a desegregation plan which was considered a model of compliance with constitutional requirements, this plan being implemented with little or no community opposition despite…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans, Educational Change
Assessing the Implementation of a State Wide Competency-Based Student Tracking System in Business Education.
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Noel, Rita Thomas; Hunter, Jennie L. – 1994
The Vocational Competency Achievement Tracking System (VoCATS) in North Carolina is a competency-based instructional management system that allows the collection of data on student performance achievement before, during, and after instruction. A preliminary pilot study was conducted to evaluate the implementation of the VoCATS program with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Business Education, Business Education Teachers
Best Practices, 1999-2000.
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North Carolina Community Coll. System, Raleigh. – 2001
This report contains descriptions of 34 best practices of North Carolina high school/community college Tech Prep (TP) consortia from a 2000 review. All consortia were allowed to choose their best effort or accomplishment completed or in operation at the end of 1999-2000. Among the practices described were: a comprehensive career development…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Apprenticeships, Basic Skills, Career Academies