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Griffin, Robert E. – 1976
A one-year study evaluated the Human Development Program, or "Magic Circle," a project (conducted in the Tuscaloosa County (Alabama) School District) designed to explore student concerns and ideas in the areas of awareness, mastery, and social interaction and consisting of daily twenty-minute classroom meetings of teacher and pupils in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Awareness, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedBarry, Nancy H. – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 1998
Describes the "Arts in Elementary Education Conference" that was an effort to develop and implement an arts in-service program for Alabama elementary teachers with special attention to ongoing program evaluation and refinement. Examines the participants' responses on their conference application, an arts integration questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Art Education, Conferences, Elementary Education, Fine Arts
Download full textAlabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. Div. of Instructional Services. – 1980
Developed for classroom teachers in Alabama, this implementation mode is intended to provide a stimulus for infusing career education activities and goals into classroom sucject areas. It begins with a matrix showing the goals of career education. An explanation follows of the seven goals (self-awareness, educational awareness, career awareness,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Class Activities, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Keckley, Denzil E. – 1988
The potential usefulness of C. Perrow's (1967) social-technical approach to describing elementary schools is described. This approach is based on the organizational technology and proposed relationships among social, structural, and personnel dimensions of organizations. Perrow's formulation of technology contains two dimensions: (1)…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Harwell, Sharon H.; Enger, Sandra K. – 1998
Followup sessions were conducted for Alabama teachers who completed training in the "Exploring Space: The Classroom Connection" science teaching program in summer 1997. The effectiveness of these sessions was evaluated for 71 teachers. This analysis also allowed for a comparison of several basic concepts about science of the 1996 Alabama…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness
Ballator, Nada; Jerry, Laura – 1999
The 1998 NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) state level reading assessment measured fourth- and eighth-grade students' reading proficiency in situations that involved reading for three purposes: reading for literary experience, reading to gain information, and reading to perform a task (grade 8 only). This report describes the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 8
Dufilho, L. Paul; And Others – 1973
This report summarizes the activities and results of the second year of the Dothan City Schools Project, "Comprehensive Services for Children," funded under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III. The project is concerned with the provision of special services to meet the needs of elementary school children suffering…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Jerry, Laura; Lutkus, Anthony – 2003
This report provides selected results from the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for Alabama's public-school students at grades 4 and 8. Since 1992, reading has been assessed in four different years at the state level (at grade 4 in 1992 and 1994, and at both grades 4 and 8 in 1998 and 2002). Alabama participated in all of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 8
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. Div. of Vocational Education and Community Colleges. – 1973
Goals of the career education research project, January 1972-July 1973, at Mobile County Public School System, Alabama, were to produce a model for implementing career education programs in local schools and to developmentally implement a program of career education. Additional goals at Phenix City Public School System, Alabama were to broaden…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Education, Community Involvement
Frederick, Lynda R.; Shaw, Edward L., Jr. – 1996
A study was conducted to determine the prevalence of the use of portfolios in selected public elementary schools. Participants were asked for demographic information and information about the amount of training they had in portfolio use and the perceived strengths and benefits, weaknesses and barriers they find in portfolio use. A questionnaire…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Language Arts, Performance Based Assessment
Reese, Clyde M.; Jerry, Laura; Ballator, Nada – 1997
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what students in the United States know and can do in various academic subjects. The 1996 NAEP in mathematics assessed the current level of mathematical achievement as a mechanism for informing education reform. In 1996, 44…
Descriptors: Algebra, Elementary Education, Functions (Mathematics), Geometry
Eddowes, E. Anne; Martin, Kathleen – 1990
This study reports information gathered from 82 of the 1,056 child care workers who participated in the Alabama Statewide Day Care Training Project, the first comprehensive training program for child care providers in the state. The project sponsored training workshops in four regions of the state and included correspondence study as an option.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Child Abuse, Child Caregivers, Child Development
National Assessment of Educational Progress, Princeton, NJ. – 1993
In 1990, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) included a Trial State Assessment which, for the first time in the NAEP's history, made voluntary state-by-state assessments. This 1992 mathematics report marks the first attempt of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to shift to standards-based reporting of National…
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculators, Elementary Education, Estimation (Mathematics)
