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Skipper, Tracy L., Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2017
The responsibility for college success has historically rested with the student, but since the 1980s, educators have taken increasing ownership of this, designing structures that increase the likelihood of learning, success, and retention. These efforts have included a variety of initiatives--first year seminars, learning communities,…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Academic Achievement, First Year Seminars, Undergraduate Students
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Flowers, Alice B. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2010
In 2005, state fish and wildlife agency wanted to examine how one of its conservation education programs was providing science-based understanding and outdoor experiences by evaluating students' knowledge, skills, attitudes and intended behavioral outcomes related to fish, fishing and aquatic habitats in Montana. A key factor in this study was the…
Descriptors: Animals, Conservation Education, Student Surveys, Teaching Methods
Thoresen, Carol W. – 1998
The Montana Systemic Teacher Excellence Preparation (STEP) Project is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Collaborative for Teacher Preparation (CETP), funded in 1993, as an initiative to accomplish systemic change in mathematics and science teacher preparation in Montana. The STEP collaborative uses a team approach to redesign content and methods…
Descriptors: American Indians, Criteria, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Peck, Julia McClintock – Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL), 2005
This publication focuses mainly on research designed to improve adolescents learning of mathematics. Sometimes it provides insights into interventions to help all students learn more mathematics and sometimes special interventions that focus on the particular needs of nonproficient mathematics students. However, no intervention should diminish the…
Descriptors: Specialists, Secondary School Teachers, Administrators, Mathematics Achievement