Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is a successful educational movement initiated in the US in the 1970s to promote better teaching and learning. It has developed to incorporate writing, speaking, digital educational technologies, and other communication modalities in the past several decades. WAC initiatives have now been successfully…

The Algebra Project DR K-12, funded by the National Science Foundation as a Research and Development Project, addressed the challenge of offering significant STEM content for students to ensure public literacy and workforce readiness. The project's primary purpose was to test the feasibility and effectiveness of a model for establishing four-year…

Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE) is a professional development program designed to reduce stress and improve teachers' performance. Two pilot studies examined program feasibility and attractiveness and preliminary evidence of efficacy. Study 1 involved educators from a high-poverty urban setting (n = 31). Study 2 involved…

The present study examines the role of mobile technology in promoting campus-wide learning environment. Its main objectives were to a) evaluate the role of mobile technology in higher education in terms of its i). appropriateness ii). flexibility iii). Interactivity, & iv). availability & usefulness and to b). identify the problems of…

There has been extensive investment by governments and individual schools in interactive whiteboard technology in developed countries premised on the assumption that their use in education will impact positively on learners' achievements. Developing countries, such as South Africa, keen to raise attainment among their learners are following suit.…

Given the vital importance of using a scientific approach for curriculum development, the authors employed a design experiment methodology (Brown, 1992; Shavelson et al., 2003) to develop and evaluate, FUSION, a first grade mathematics intervention intended for students with or at-risk for mathematics disabilities. FUSION, funded through IES…

THIS STUDY SOUGHT TO ASSESS CURRENT UTILIZATION OF MULTI-MEDIA FACILITIES IN SMALL, RURAL COMMUNITIES, AND TO PLAN AN INNOVATIVE MOBILE MULTI-MEDIA LABORATORY FOR THESE COMMUNITIES. INFORMATION ON CURRENT FACILITIES AND ATTITUDES WAS GATHERED AT EDUCATORS' MEETINGS AND IN INTERVIEWS WITH PROFESSIONALS. THE NEEDS FOR QUALIFIED PERSONNEL AND…

Focus-group research conducted on Unified English Braille highlights the diversity of views about the desirability of the new code and its proposed changes. Many features seen by students as positive were the same features deemed undesirable by other students. In general, teachers were more amenable to the changes than were students. Nearly all…

Estimates of population values obtained using three sampling techniques (simple random sampling, stratified random sampling, and cluster sampling) and three size samples for each technique (10%, 25% and 50%) were compared with known "population" values. 25% simple random sample provided quite good estimates of the "population"…

In preparation for the possible establishment of a literary magazine at New Jersey's Bergen Community College (BCCC), a study was conducted to gather information on the forms and impact of such magazines at other New Jersey community colleges. Two journals were reviewed: the Journal of New Jersey Poets (JNJP), edited by faculty from the County…

THIS DOCUMENT DESCRIBES THE PROCEDURES INVOLVED IN A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR TELELECTURE IN-SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING IN APPALACHIA. PROCEDURES ARE DISCUSSED IN SIX SECTIONS--(1) PROJECT PLANNING BASED ON A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE CONCERNING TELELECTURES, (2) SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS, (3) SELECTION OF TRAINING MATERIALS, (4) PLANNING AND…

Results of a feasibility study to integrate the elderly into the university community are reported. The program occurred during the 1975 summer session at Oklahoma State University. Twenty retired persons attended classes, participated in other phases of campus life, and lived in a university dormitory. Twenty-three students acted as surrogate…

Self-formative evaluation is a unique form of formative evaluation which refers to the involvement of both the producer and the users in the evaluation of newly developed instructional materials; it does not indicate evaluation of themselves. This examination of the feasibility of employing this evaluation technique during the process of…

A study assessed the feasibility of marketing adult and continuing education in Great Britain. Data on public attitudes toward adult/continuing education were collected from: (1) a survey of persons living in inner London, in an industrial environment, and in a rural area; (2) interviews with senior academic staff from six Further Education Unit…

This report is one of five submitted as products of a "Study Designed to Assist Planning of Research on Significant Instructional Features in Bilingual Education Programs." The reports are intended to assist the National Institute of Education in its plans for a major new research study in bilingual education. The present report…