While game-based assessment offers new potential for understanding the processes students use to solve problems, it also presents new challenges in uncovering which player actions provide evidence that contributes to understanding about students' knowledge, skill, and attributes that we are interested in assessing. A development process that…

When approached about working with colleagues to develop a new course revolving around the inner-workings of a political campaign, one thing was obvious to me: We had to give the course the unique element of making it as closely mimic real-world campaign activities as possible. If we were going to attempt to actually prepare students for work on a…

The Journey Through Health educational display was developed using the Health Belief Model and provided information on how the Dietary Guidelines Consumer Brochure messages can positively influence nutrition and physical activity choices to prevent or delay age-related changes throughout the body. The display consisted of 12 posters, educational…

Though school is out for the summer, ninth- and tenth-grade students at Union Intermediate High School are burning off energy playing a game of tag on the soccer field. But that is not all they are doing. They are also synthesizing and applying key chemistry concepts they have just learned related to the conditions of the early solar system. They…

Twelve universities and one American Indian (AI) tribal college were selected for the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute's 5-year stipend traineeship program. These tribal traineeships were designed to provide social work child welfare education for tribal and nontribal students. Twenty-two AI students and 58 nontribal students completed a…

A total of 33 sites, including states, school districts, charter school coalitions, and other education organizations make up Cohorts 1 and 2 of the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF). These sites received funds beginning in the fall of 2006 and spring of 2007 to redesign compensation programs for teachers and principals. The U.S. Department of…

This guide has been prepared to assist Oklahoma school officials in developing an energy management plan. It consists of a compilation of materials drawn from a number of local, state, and federal resources. A model organizational structure is shown that could be adapted by each district in organizing an energy plan. The necessity of an energy…

A six-stage model of Individualized Education Program (IEP) development for students with disabilities in Oklahoma high schools includes: (1) student assessment, (2) IEP planning, (3) admission to area vocational/technical schools, (4) development of tentative instructional plans, (5) IEP meeting, and (6) IEP implementation. (DB)

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO RELATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TO EDUCATIONAL MEDIA BY IDENTIFYING THE OBJECTIVES, CONCERNS, AND PROBLEMS OF THIS AREA, AND PROVIDING SPECIFICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE USE AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEWER EDUCATIONAL MEDIA. TWO POSITIONAL CONFERENCES WERE HELD WITH EXTENSIVE POSITIONAL PAPERS PREPARED BY…

The national goal of migrant education is "to establish programs and projects which are designed to meet the special educational needs of migratory children of migratory agricultural workers or migratory fishermen and to coordinate these programs and projects with similar programs in other states". In Oklahoma, the major objectives for…

Project goals for the year ending June 30, 1974 were to complete development of the model initiated in Sand Springs Public Schools during the 1972-73 school year, to provide dissemination of the model across the State, and to demonstrate the model in operation. Major efforts concerned instructional material revisions or development from the first…

This document contains the State plan designed to enable the State Department of Education to implement an adult education program in Oklahoma that will meet the critical educational needs of the adult population. Sections of the plan include purpose; state definitions; legal authority; audits, goal statement, administrative provisions;…

This report interprets information from the first phase of a Federally funded adult basic educational guidance and counseling project in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Findings and conclusions are presented as to the cultural, psychological, and other characteristics of students; problems encountered in designing guidance…

The guidelines are designed to help Oklahoma school administrators, counselors, teachers, and parents better understand learning disabilities. Following an excerpt from the Federal Register regarding evaluation of learning disabled (LD) students, the following three topics are addressed: (1) the referral process (pre-refereal and formal referral);…

The interim report describes the second year activities of a three-year project to provide an integrated career education curriculum for students in grades K-14 in the Oklahoma City Public School District. Detailed are the goals and objectives, procedures, results, accomplishments, and conclusions and recommendations. Appendixes include a list of…