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Schneider, Michael – Science Teacher, 2004
This article describes how Cahokia middle and high school students conduct inquiry-based science through a pitfall trap experiment. In a collaborative effort, students designed and conducted pitfall trap investigations that combined their interest in the natural world with their love of technology. The students set up their own experiments to…
Descriptors: Topography, Investigations, Outdoor Education, High School Students
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Anning, Angela – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2005
In the UK Centres of Excellence were funded by the DfES to model high quality, multi-agency, early years services for young children and their families. They were precursors to Children's Centres to be established across the UK. Early Excellence Centres were evaluated at national and local levels. This article will draw on data from local…
Descriptors: Preschool Evaluation, Investigations, Delivery Systems, Interviews
Corcoran, Thomas B. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2008
This is the first report on the evaluation of the Inquiry Based Science and Technology Education Program (IN-STEP), an innovative and ambitious science education initiative for lower secondary schools being undertaken by a public-private partnership in Thailand funded by MSD-Thailand, an affiliate of Merck & Co. IN-STEP is a public-private…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Schools of Education, Evaluators, Science Interests
Johnson, Brenda K.; Crawley, Frank E., III – 1991
To what degree do teacher participants in one science enhancement institute intend to use the information in the classroom the next fall? What factors assist this extension of learning? What factors detract from teachers applying new knowledge in the classroom? Sixteen second- to eighth-grade science teachers from a physical and life science…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Beliefs, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Wiener, Steve – 1979
Soaring values of agricultural land have created inequities in funding between urban and rural school districts in Minnesota. The state's Foundation Aid to school districts is formulated so that districts of high property valuation receive less Foundation Aid than those districts with low property valuation. In recent years inflation has had…
Descriptors: Assessed Valuation, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support
SUMMER, MARK R. – 1967
UNDER A U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION GRANT, AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE OF TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES USED IN LONG TERM COMMUNITY SPONSORED EPIC PRESENTATIONS BY MAJOR OUTDOOR HISTORICAL AND CLASSICAL DRAMA COMPANIES OPERATING IN THE UNITED STATES. THE PRINCIPAL FINDINGS ARE BASED ON 83 ON THE SPOT SURVEYS AND INTERVIEWS WITH DIRECTORS AND STAFF MEMBERS…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Audiences, Audio Equipment, Budgets
Modesto Junior Coll., CA. – 1965
THIS REPORT OUTLINES PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED AND PROGRESS MADE IN THE STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, TRAINING PROJECT. INITIAL DIFFICULTY IN SECURING FEDERAL APPROVAL AND FUNDS FOR PREVOCATIONAL OR BASIC EDUCATION WAS ENDED BY THE AMENDED MANPOWER TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ACT. HOWEVER, DIFFICULTIES, MAINLY IN REORIENTING PREVOCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Agency Cooperation, Educational Facilities
Bloch, Peter B.; Weidman, Donald R. – 1975
The report discusses many ways for police managers to improve the success of their departments' criminal investigation efforts. Management issues addressed include budgeting and allocating resources; improving relationships with the prosecutor; interacting with the public, especially victims and witnesses; improving relationships between…
Descriptors: Administration, Crime, Criminology, Evaluation Criteria
Taylor, John N.; Valentine, Dennis E. – 1970
This study was undertaken as a quantitative description of graduate degree holders within the Air Force line officer force; specifically, those on active duty between 1961 and 1968. Basic data sources were the Uniform Officer Record (UOR) and the UOR reformat, a historical research file maintained by the Personnel Research Division. Records of…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Degrees (Academic), Doctoral Degrees, Educational Background
Dickinson, Gary; Verner, Coolie – 1969
An investigation was made of certain structural characteristics of a small, isolated rural community (Pemberton, British Columbia) that might influence participation in adult education. Existing night school courses were mainly in vocational training, domestic sciences, and recreational activities. Although over half of the 158 males interviewed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Attitudes, Community Characteristics
Rasmussen, Dale Bruce – 1969
The study evalutes public investment in on the job training (OJT) and tries to identify systematic determinants of the profitability of this investment. Profiles of age and earnings by occupation are estimated for the South and other regions, and for whites and nonwhites, from data in the one-in-1,000 census sample and are then adjusted to the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cost Effectiveness, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Background
Howard, John A.; Hulbert, James – 1973
The advertising industry in the United States is thoroughly analyzed in this comprehensive report. The report was prepared mostly from the transcripts of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) hearings on Modern Advertising Practices. The basic structure of the industry as well as its role in marketing strategy is reviewed and some interesting…
Descriptors: Advertising, Broadcast Industry, Commercial Television, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Bunker, Barbara Benedict; And Others – 1975
This guide describes activities, methods, and materials which can be used in conducting a beginning-level social-science research project. Designed for secondary and college students as a laboratory component of a social studies or social science course, it provides ideas for firsthand experience in the methods used by social scientists for their…
Descriptors: Guides, Higher Education, Inquiry, Instructional Materials
Continuing Legal Education in Colorado, Inc., Denver. – 1976
Presented are papers delivered at a 1976 Colorado environmental law conference. Included in the publication are the conference schedule, the text of nine papers, background information on authors, and bibliography listings for each paper. Titles and topics of the papers are the following: (1) Water Resources Development and the Environment…
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Community Development, Conference Reports, Ecology
Gluszynski, Tomasz – Human Resources Development Canada, 2002
In the last decade, there has been a greater demand for high skills to match jobs in the new economy. Are youth changing the time spent in schooling and work? Are youth studying longer? Are they working earlier? Are they combining work and studying? Are they training more? And finally, did the changes come at a price? Using the General Social…
Descriptors: Age, Females, Work Experience, Foreign Countries
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