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Fruchter, Dorothy A.; Higginson, George M. – 1976
The Tattletooth program is a new dental health curriculum in which the students learn in the classroom to care for their teeth through brushing, flossing, and proper diet; and they receive needed support and encouragement to form good dental habits from their parents, dentists, and from community groups. Classroom materials for the Tattletooth…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Dental Evaluation, Dental Health
Davis, Stephen – Heritage Communicator, 1987
Discusses the importance of interpretive programs in the Northern Territory of Australia. Describes the typical interpretive approach of local school science curricula, which serve 20,000 Aboriginal children. Addresses the curriculum framework, learning strategies, and process skill development, illustrating them through a lesson on mangroves. (TW)
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Estuaries

Birnbaum, Stuart Jay; And Others – Journal of Geological Education, 1990
Compared are two approaches to inservice geology instruction for elementary and secondary school earth science teachers. The benefits of the combination of lecture, laboratory, and field work are emphasized. (CW)
Descriptors: College Science, Earth Science, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education

LaPrelle, John; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1992
High intercommunity variation in adolescent smoking precluded detection of effects of mass media campaigns on initiation of cigarette smoking in a study with a final sample of 1,637 adolescent subjects. Implications for studies using the individual as unit of analysis and the community as unit of randomization are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Analysis of Variance, Community Programs, Etiology

Bigler, Gregory; Linn, Mary S. – Practicing Anthropology, 1999
Linguists working with endangered American Indian languages must realize that fieldwork is a cooperative venture, requiring that control be relinguished to the community. The relationship with the tribe must be negotiated, and linguists must return something concrete to the community in terms of language revival. Working in language teams that…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Anthropological Linguistics, Community Involvement

Chou, Huey-Wen; Wang, Yu-Fang – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1999
Compares the effects of two training methods on computer attitude and performance in a World Wide Web page design program in a field experiment with high school students in Taiwan. Discusses individual differences, Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory and Learning Style Inventory, Computer Attitude Scale, and results of statistical analyses.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis

McRae, Jane – Green Teacher, 1998
Mapping is a means of experiencing a community's features that engages the mapmaker. Getting to know the community by drawing maps and learning about past and present inhabitants was the methodology for introducing local content into the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classroom. This model for mapping was used with adult and high school ESL…
Descriptors: Adults, Cartography, Class Activities, Community Characteristics
Gardner, Susan K., Ed. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2009
This monograph seeks to inform faculty, staff, administrators, and students about the nature of and structure in doctoral programs that lead to doctoral student development. It is accomplished through succeeding chapters, focusing first on an overview of existing student development theory and then on the structure of doctoral education and its…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Degrees, Student Experience, Student Development
Chukwuemeka, Veronica O. – Online Submission, 2004
This paper addresses the research question: "What is the Motive for the Review of Higher Education Administration (HEA) Doctoral Degree Programs? The data derived from a larger study, "Impact of Program Review on Higher Education Administration Doctoral Degree Programs" that documents, through in-depth case studies, the processes faculty and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study, Educational Administration, Doctoral Programs, Program Evaluation
Poggenpoel, M.; Myburgh, C. P. H. – Education, 2005
In conducting research, the identified problem in the field will determine the research strategies chosen to address the problem. When a qualitative research strategy is deemed as the most appropriate strategy to get answers to research questions, the researcher should be aware of obstacles that can be encountered in the research process. If the…
Descriptors: Researchers, Qualitative Research, Credibility, Research Methodology
St. John, Mark; Helms, Jenifer V.; Castori, Pam; Hirabayashi, Judy; Lopez, Laurie; Phillips, Michelle – Inverness Research, 2009
The documents enclosed in this report provide a comprehensive and systematic review of the progress made in developing a network organization capable of supporting nanoscience education for the public on a national scale. There is a logic to the studies that were done and to the reports that are included in this notebook. The following are the…
Descriptors: Workshops, Leadership, Administrators, Scientists
Funnell, Robert, Ed. – 1996
This handbook, which was written by researchers with expertise in Australia's technical and further education (TAFE) system, provides background information about the following: approaches to research in vocational education and training (VET); the range of methods normally used in research and their the application to VET; and procedures for…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection
DuFour, Marilyn Berry; Courter, Linda Kothera; Garvin, Dennis M. – 1997
The project PARK-IT! represents a unique partnership between a public elementary school and a city park in which students and teachers utilize a small naturalized area of the park as a Land Laboratory, and in return become its stewards. The project also includes this curriculum activity guide which can assist teachers in using the Land Lab with…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Concept Formation, Cooperative Learning, Earth Science
Curriculum Development Centre, Canberra (Australia). – 1981
Arranged in three sections, the book offers practical techniques for introducing environmental education at the secondary level. The first section, on planning, outlines a conceptual framework for environmental education, discusses development of school policy on environmental education, provides approaches to controversial and values issues,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum Development, Dramatic Play
Kelly, P. J., Ed. – 1988
One of the important aims of good biology teaching should be to encourage some basic understanding and appreciation of ecology. This understanding should include not only the scientific basis of ecology, but also its application for human welfare and, in particular, for rational exploitation and management of the natural environment and resources.…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Conservation (Environment), Developing Nations, Ecology