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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1983
Intended for use by teachers of seventh and eighth grade students assigned to a special summer program because they have not met the criteria for promotion, this handbook focuses on strategies by which real reading and its attendant language forms can be maximized within the context of summer and its built-in expectations. The first part of the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Curriculum Development, Evaluation Methods
Mulhern, John D.; Morris, Robert C. – 1982
A collaborative program between the University of South Carolina College of Education and Lexington County (South Carolina) School District Five provided gifted and talented students with a summer school session featuring acceleration and enrichment. Accompanying the program were graduate-level courses and practica for prospective teachers of…
Descriptors: Acceleration, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities
Cox, Dorothy Anna Howard – 1980
This study examined two major areas: (1) evaluation of the characteristics, interactions, problem-solving strategies and achievement of seventh- and eighth-grade junior high school students (N=66) as they interacted with a microcomputer in three problem-solving sessions, and (2) determination of the effectiveness of three original microcomputer…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Decision Making Skills
LOBAN, WALTER – 1964
THE STUDY CONCERNED TRACING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN THE SAME GROUP OF SUBJECTS FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH GRADE 9. THE RESEARCH WAS BASED ON A STUDY OF THE PATTERNS AND BEHAVIOR OF THE SUBJECTS' SPEECH AND WRITING AND THEIR COMPETENCE IN READING AND LISTENING. SUCH INFORMATION IS USEFUL IN CURRICULUM PLANNING AND IN DEVELOPING…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Curriculum Development, Grade 7, Grade 8
Mandeville, Garrett K.; And Others – 1977
Student achievement data from 92 school districts in South Carolina were analyzed to determine which variables were most likely to affect educational quality. Fourth and seventh grade samples were examined to determine the effects on achievement when the shared variation between achievement and the context variables was removed. The data included…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Correlation, Data Analysis
Skanes, Graham R. – 1970
As a prelude to testing deductions from the Ferguson and other ability theories that environment influences patterns of ability, school children in 5 large and 11 small isolated communities on the South Coast of Newfoundland were tested to compare ability patterns of children in small places with those in large communities. Data used for…
Descriptors: Ability, Age Differences, Community Size, Comparative Analysis
Mehrens, William – 1975
The 1973-74 Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) provided information on twenty-two separate measures of interest to educators. The program provides for measures of (1) word relationships, (2) mathematics, (3) reading and (4) attitudes (optional). In contrast to past programs, the mathematics and reading instruments are…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Attitude Measures, Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests
Pontiac City School District, MI. – 1975
In two succeeding years, 1974 and 1975, the same attitude questionnaire is given to students in succeeding grades to determine attitude change as they move from third to fourth grade or from sixth to seventh grade. Rather than reporting on each of thirty-five attitude items separately, a statistical technique is applied to select the most…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Class Organization, Cluster Analysis
Sunnyside School District, Tucson, AZ.
GRADES OR AGES: 1-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Health education, tobacco, alcohol, and narcotics. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The introductory material discusses pre-planning and the general characteristics of physical development in early school, upper elementary school, and preadolescence. The material for grades 1-3 covers the body, human…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Curriculum Guides, Drug Abuse, Elementary Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Bureau of Secondary Curriculum Development. – 1972
This bulletin, the first of a series of three, presents a tentative structure for courses in early secondary school social studies. Objectives are for pupils to learn to find, analyze, and weigh available evidence in their own search for truth; to learn a different approach each time a topic is restudied at successive grade levels; to develop and…
Descriptors: American History, Colonial History (United States), Concept Teaching, Constitutional History
Freudenstein, Reinhold; And Others – 1970
This guide for teaching English at the seventh grade level in German comprehensive schools contains the following major headings and subtopics: (1) Fundamentals and Postulates: student grouping problems, recommendations for a plan of instruction and use of materials, and learning goals in secondary education; (2) the Audiolingual Conception: a…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Curriculum Development, Educational Radio, English (Second Language)
Blinn, Herbert; Weinfeld, Herbert – 1971
The elective, Quinmester course of study for grades 7 through 9 presents a survey on Chinese cultural history, cultural development, and culture as it is now in contemporary China. Emphasis is on comparing and contrasting traditional attitudes, values, and the total culture with the new culture since the Communist Revolution of 1948 in an attempt…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Area Studies, Behavioral Objectives, Chinese Culture
McCormick, Jackie – 1971
The quinmester American studies elective course for grades seven through nine focuses on the development of the United States as a world power from 1898 when conditions and influential groups of expansionists contributed to the United States, changing from an isolationist nation to the present world power. Emphasis is on the concept of national…
Descriptors: Activity Units, American Studies, Behavioral Objectives, Colonialism
Holmes, Madelyn, Ed. – Basic Education, 1997
Articles on second language education include: "Foreign Languages in Schools" (Madelyn Holmes), an overview of the benefits of language instruction in elementary and secondary education; "Japanese across the Miles" (Elizabeth Reiken), describing a high school distance learning program in Japanese; "Teaching Spanish as a Community Service" (Rita A.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Communication Skills, Cultural Education, Distance Education
Gregait, Lucinda H.; Johnsen, Diane R.; Nielsen, Pamela S. – 1997
This report describes a program for implementing self-assessment to enhance performance and clarify evaluation of participation in Physical Education (PE) classes. Participants were fifth and seventh graders in middle class midwestern communities. Teachers in targeted PE classes displayed concerns about students' abilities to self-assess when…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods
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