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Bitner, Betty L. – 1991
In this predictive study, the variables of College Basic Academic Subjects Examination (C-BASE) Science score, American College Test (ACT) Science score, Group Assessment of Logical Thinking (GALT) score, and total number of college science courses completed were investigated as predictors of science process skills and physical science…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, College Science, Developmental Stages
Kaufman, Steven – 1991
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) represents the first time the National Center for Education Statistics has integrated three of the Elementary and Secondary Education Surveys: the Teacher Demand and Shortage Surveys, Public and Private School Surveys, and Teacher Surveys. The SASS was designed to measure the critical aspects of teacher…
Descriptors: Administrators, Databases, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Howe, Robert W.; And Others – 1990
This monograph summarizes selected major activities, trends, issues, and recommendations related to curriculum, instructional materials and instruction related in science education that have been documented in the literature. The technique used for selecting trends, issues, and recommendations was to identify relevant literature that had published…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Preparation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Shields, Patrick M.; Anderson, Lee – 1991
This study examines cases of overlap between federal Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 programs as reauthorized in the Hawkins-Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvements Amendments of 1988. Both chapters emphasize the creation of more effective schools through similar approaches. The study sample includes three states (Connecticut, Arkansas, and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Coordination, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
Stevens, Carla J.; And Others – 1991
This paper reports on a study of the Houston (Texas) Independent School District's Lighted Schoolhouse Program, which is designed to serve as an intermediary between homeless children and community service agencies, to provide a range of after-school activities for unattended children, and to provide opportunities for participation of families and…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Black Students, Community Services, Disadvantaged Youth
Davis, Jo Ann; Price, Elaine J. – 1991
Information on public elementary schools and secondary schools is presented for the 1989-90 school year and the 1989 fiscal year. Statistics are based on data collected via two of the four surveys of the Common Core of Data conducted annually by the National Center for Education Statistics and provided by state education agencies from their…
Descriptors: Attendance, Educational Finance, Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Shanks, Joyce – 1991
Following a description of how the political climate in the 1960s through the 1980s influenced education, this document discusses the effects of districtwide curriculum standardization on Burr Oaks Elementary School in the midwestern village of Burr Oaks. The school's community setting, use of curriculum guides, and initial use of curriculum…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Curriculum Problems
Blosser, Patricia E., Ed.; Mayer, Victor J., Ed. – Investigations in Science Education, 1983
Abstractor's analyses of 15 science education research studies are presented in three sections. The nine analyses in the first section focus on studies dealing with preservice and inservice teacher education. Areas investigated in these studies include: effectiveness of some inservice practices; teachers' perceptions of the importance of some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Science
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Macaroglu, Esra – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2003
In recent education reform policies of different countries, scientific literacy was set as the national goal for science education. Understanding how science itself and scientists really work, in other words, understanding the nature of science is necessary to reach the desired scientific literacy level. Students also need to understand the…
Descriptors: Internet, Scientific Literacy, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Wason-Ellam, Linda – 1987
Based on the idea that journal writing can help students discover gaps in their knowledge and explore relationships by allowing them to reflect on what they have learned, a study examined the usefulness of expressive journal writing in a first grade mathematics program. Subjects, members of a first grade classroom involved in a…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Content Area Writing, Elementary School Mathematics
Task Force on Women, Minorities, and the Handicapped in Science and Technology, Washington, DC. – 1989
The Task Force on Women, Minorities, and the Handicapped in Science and Technology was established by the U.S. Congress in Public Law 99-383 with the purpose of developing a long-range plan for broadening participation in science and engineering. Public hearings were held in Albuquerque (New Mexico), Atlanta (Georgia), Baltimore (Maryland), Boston…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Science, Disabilities, Elementary School Science
May, David – 1989
To increase enrollment in high school science classes and, thereby, increase scientific literacy among Americans, efforts must begin in elementary and middle schools. The Blue Mountain Small School Consortium, nine small and rural schools in southeastern Washington, cooperated with Whitman College in a search for improved methods of teaching…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
June, Barbara; And Others – 1986
A study was conducted to determine if actual California Achievement Test subtest scores were significantly different than expected in a large, urban school district that had just implemented its first component--staff development--based on the Effective School Model (ESM). Subjects consisted of 1,591 fourth through sixth graders and 1,557 sixth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Vermont Inst. of Natural Science, Woodstock. – 1989
The solid waste problem is so pervasive that it can no longer be ignored. The purpose of this set of materials is to encourage a lifestyle that includes the use of the three R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. It was designed to educate upper elementary and junior high school students who may educate their classmates, families, and community about the…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Conservation (Environment), Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education
Ford Foundation, New York, NY. – 1987
In February, 1985, the Ford Foundation launched an experimental program to strengthen mathematics education in inner-city high schools. Five grants helped establish urban mathematics collaboratives (UMC) in Cleveland, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. Later, additional UMCs were set up in Durham, Memphis, New…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematical Applications
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