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Beau Dickenson; Kathy Swan; Gerry Swan – Social Education, 2024
In this article, the authors share a unique and unfolding story about a program in Virginia that allows districts to opt into a series of Inquiry Design Model (IDM) performance assessments in place of the state-developed multiple-choice test. In the Rockingham County School District, this initiative was piloted in ninth-grade World Geography…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Grade 9, World Geography
Finlayson, Caitlin – Open Praxis, 2020
A growing body of research has demonstrated that open educational resources (OER) provide an opportunity for improvements in learning outcomes compared to traditional texts. This project builds on the Open Education Group's COUP framework to explore student and faculty use and perceptions of an open education World Regional Geography textbook.…
Descriptors: World Geography, Open Educational Resources, Textbooks, Blended Learning
Finlayson, Caitlin – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
As the rising cost of college textbooks has outpaced both inflation and increases in tuition fees, this expense has created a significant barrier to student learning. Some instructors have adopted or created open educational resources, meaning materials which are freely and openly available. While the most obvious benefit of open course content…
Descriptors: Textbook Publication, Teacher Developed Materials, Textbooks, Open Educational Resources
Friedman, Adam – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2006
The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of state standards and their associated tests in public schools in order to hold schools, teachers, and students accountable for learning outcomes and achievement. In this qualitative study of eight world history and world geography teachers, the degree to which the Virginia Standards of Learning…
Descriptors: State Standards, Primary Sources, Recall (Psychology), Accountability