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Powers, Stephen; Price-Johnson, Connie – Online Submission, 2007
Background: The Waterford Early Math & Science (WEMS) program is a comprehensive educational software program designed to build math and science skills and concepts in grades K-2, alone or to supplement existing curricula. The program's capability to individualize lessons, assess and track student progress, and reteach lessons is aimed at…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Comparative Analysis
Merrill, Chris; Custer, Rodney L.; Daugherty, Jenny; Westrick, Martin; Zeng, Yong – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2007
Within primary and secondary school technology education, engineering has been proposed as an avenue to bring about technological literacy. Different initiatives such as curriculum development projects (i.e., Project ProBase and Project Lead The Way) and National Science Foundation funded projects such as the National Center for Engineering and…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Statistical Analysis, Secondary School Teachers, Engineering
Gittman, Elizabeth; Cassata, Marian – 1994
A 5-year federally funded substance abuse prevention program targeted 426 high risk middle-school youth from 4 school districts in Nassau County, New York. Combining a child-centered model with a systemic approach, the program's goal was to prevent or delay the onset of alcohol and other drug use. High-risk youth were identified by school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educationally Disadvantaged, Grade 7
Oklahoma State Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education, Stillwater. Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center. – 1995
This Technology Learning Activity (TLA) for control robotics programming technology in grades 6-10 is designed to teach students to construct and program computer-controlled devices using a LEGO DACTA set and computer interface and to help them understand how control technology and robotics affect them and their lifestyle. The suggested time for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Manufacturing, Computer Simulation
Davila, Norma; Gomez, Manuel – 1994
The National Science Foundation is sponsoring 26 Statewide Systemic Initiative Projects to promote innovative curricula for teaching mathematics and science. A plan for evaluating and assessing systemic change has been designed and implemented at one of them in Puerto Rico. The perspective used to guide this paper is based on the principles that…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Schroyer, Connie J.; Payne, David L. – 1994
Project TIME (Training Initiative for Manufacturing Employees) was an 18-month National Workplace Literacy Program conducted by Lord Fairfax Community College in conjunction with an automotive parts plant and Triplett Technical and Business Institute in Virginia. Project TIME had three primary objectives: to help employees obtain the basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Communication Skills
Simsek, Ali – 1993
This study examined the effects of instructional control and aptitude composition on performance, interaction, and attitudes during a computer-based cooperative science lesson. A sample of 152 fifth and sixth grade students completed the instruction either under the learner control (LC) or the program control (PC) treatment. In the LC treatment,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
Enterprise State Junior Coll., AL. – 1997
This curriculum package on communications, the machinery of management for new hires, has been developed by the Workforce 2000 Partnership, a network of industries and educational institutions that provides training in communication, computation, and creative thinking to employees and supervisors in textile, apparel, and carpet industries at 15…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Communication Skills, Curriculum Guides
Enterprise State Junior Coll., AL. – 1997
This curriculum package on communication--the machinery of management for supervisors, auditors, and training instructors has been developed by the Workforce 2000 Partnership, a network of industries and educational institutions that provides training in communication, computation, and creative thinking to employees and supervisors in textile,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Behavioral Objectives, Business Correspondence
Coast Community Coll. District, Costa Mesa, CA. – 1996
This manual is a guide to an interactive training program designed to address key skills necessary in today's high performance workplace. The module is intended to meet the learning needs of production workers who may have limited basic skills or literacy. This module, which addresses conflict resolution, focuses on helping employees understand…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Conflict
Coast Community Coll. District, Costa Mesa, CA. – 1996
This instructor's manual for workplace trainers contains the materials required to conduct a course in basic workplace mathematics skills. The course consists of six lessons for workers and two lessons for supervisors that discuss the following: concepts taught in the six lessons; workers' progress in the individual lessons; and strategies for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Behavioral Objectives, Calculators
Donaldson, William S. – 1992
This paper studies pretest-to-posttest, posttest-to-sustained effect, and pretest-to-sustained effect changes for 3,775 students in grades 2 through 8 who participated in Chapter 1 reading/mathematics programs in Columbus (Ohio) Public Schools during the 1989-90 school year. Data for 16 analysis groups were collected in spring of 1989, 1990, and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Seybert, Jeffrey A.; Soltz, Donald F. – 1992
In fall 1990, Johnson County Community College (JCCC) in Overland Park, Kansas, conducted a study of the effectiveness of the college's developmental reading, English, and mathematics courses. The study examined developmental students' course grades and completion rates, grades in related college-level courses, overall academic progress, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Achievement Gains, College Credits
Chan, Carol; Bereiter, Carl – 1992
This study examined students' active roles in constructing knowledge when learning new information in the domain of biological evolution. A computer-based connectionist methodology was developed to provide a way to present students with new information while the experimenter provides probe statements congruent with or contradictory to the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Biology, Cognitive Processes
Nurss, Joanne R. – 1992
Project CLASS, a collaborative family literacy demonstration research project designed to meet the language and literacy needs of limited English proficient families in Clayton County, Georgia, is described. Intergenerational and age-graded classes were provided for Cambodian, Laotian, Vietnamese, and Hispanic adult family members, their…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Asian Americans, Cambodians, Community Services
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