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McNulty, John; Chandrasekhar, Arcot; Hoyt, Amy; Gruener, Gregory; Espiritu, Baltazar; Price, Ron, Jr. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2011
This report summarizes more than a decade of experiences with implementing computer-based testing across a 4-year medical curriculum. Practical considerations are given to the fields incorporated within an item database and their use in the creation and analysis of examinations, security issues in the delivery and integrity of examinations,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Testing, Integrity, Computer Assisted Testing
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Shea, Lauren M.; Shanahan, Therese B. – Science and Children, 2011
This article discusses how to promote oral language development through science. The authors describe how they incorporate academic "talk strategies" into science lessons in a nonintrusive and meaningful manner. These talk strategies are adapted from the "Avenues" (2007) curriculum for English learners (ELs), which gives examples of cooperative…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Oral Language, Learning Strategies, Cooperative Learning
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Sloan, Thomas; Lewis, David – Journal of Education for Business, 2011
The authors report the results of a cross-class project involving sophomore-level students in an Operations Analysis (OA) class with junior-level students in an Operations Management (OM) class. The students formed virtual teams and developed a simulation model of a call center. The OM students provided the management expertise, while the OA…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Operations Research, Virtual Classrooms, Interdisciplinary Approach
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de Jong, Ester; Howard, Elizabeth – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
As bilingual enrichment programmes that integrate language majority and language minority students, two-way immersion (TWI) programmes have the potential to overcome the harmful effects of segregation and remedial education that are the frequent byproducts of educational programmes for native speakers of languages other than English.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Immersion Programs, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Shea, Christopher – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Philippe Bourgois, who has spent his career studying some of America's roughest neighborhoods and subcultures, got an unusually harsh welcome to his new hometown: Last May, during a trip to North Philly to make contact with some drug dealers, he got caught up in a police raid. The arrest was Bourgois's first, though hardly his first brush with…
Descriptors: Subcultures, Special Programs, Interdisciplinary Approach, Unified Studies Curriculum
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Porter, Jason A.; Wolbach, Kevin C.; Purzycki, Catherine B.; Bowman, Leslie A.; Agbada, Eva; Mostrom, Alison M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2010
The Association of College and Research Libraries recommends incorporating information literacy (IL) skills across university and college curricula, for the goal of developing information literate graduates. Congruent with this goal, the Departments of Biological Sciences and Information Science developed an integrated IL and scientific literacy…
Descriptors: Biology, Information Science, Scientific Literacy, Information Literacy
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King, Eden B.; Gulick, Lisa M. V.; Avery, Derek R. – Journal of Management Education, 2010
The fields of diversity training and diversity education have developed in a disconnected manner. This divide ensures that each field advances slowly and with narrow focus. The authors argue here that the divide should be bridged with attention to the best practices that diversity training and diversity education offer. By integrating the best…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Multicultural Education, Best Practices, Educational Practices
McArthur, John W.; Sachs, Jeffrey – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Amid the global economic crisis dominating policy makers' recent attention, the world faces many other equal if not greater long-term challenges that will require concerted and highly skilled policy efforts in coming years. Those interwoven challenges include the mitigation of climate change, the control of emerging diseases, the reduction of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Interdisciplinary Approach, Unified Studies Curriculum, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Starr-Glass, David – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2010
The capstone experience has become ubiquitous in undergraduate education. Originally, it served as a terminal display of academic excellence and bridging experience between study and work; more recently, however, it has been seen in terms of academic completion and consolidation. In times of increased turbulence for new business graduates, and in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, International Trade, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
Walbert, Meghan M. – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2010
Educators at the East Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT) in Mesa, Arizona, are always looking to industry leaders for guidance on how to educate and prepare students for new, emerging careers. But sometimes, it's not a matter of a new industry emerging, but rather several previous occupations merging to form new opportunities for students and…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, High School Students, School Business Relationship, Multimedia Materials
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Guyette, Frederick W. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2009
What are the prospects for joining religious education and human rights education? (1) Human rights educators may cite good historical and philosophical reasons for teaching about human rights without making any reference whatsoever to a religious foundation. (2) For their part, many religious communities have resisted opportunities to form…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Religious Education, Social Justice, Social Attitudes
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Hegarty, Kathryn – London Review of Education, 2009
Contemporary universities in the developed world face a plethora of increased--and changing--responsibilities. We are the global university, responsible for the production of worker citizens who will be "prepared" for an extraordinarily diverse set of challenges across all facets of their lives. Much of our research concentration in the academy…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Sustainable Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Practices
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Marsteller, Pat; de Pillis, Lisette; Findley, Ann; Joplin, Karl; Pelesko, John; Nelson, Karen; Thompson, Katerina; Usher, David; Watkins, Joseph – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2010
In response to the call of "BIO2010" for integrating quantitative skills into undergraduate biology education, 30 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Program Directors at the 2006 HHMI Program Directors Meeting established a consortium to investigate, implement, develop, and disseminate best practices resulting from the integration of math and…
Descriptors: Biology, Best Practices, Program Implementation, Barriers
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Handscombe, Robert D.; Rodriguez-Falcon, Elena; Patterson, Eann A. – Education & Training, 2008
Purpose: This paper aims to focus on the attempts to implement the challenges of teaching enterprise to science and engineering students by the embedding approach chosen by the White Rose Centre for Enterprise (WRCE), one of the centres formed under the Science Engineering Challenge in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: WRCE's objective was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Integrated Curriculum, Unified Studies Curriculum
Gresens, Ay-Shin – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Teaching math problem solving has been a challenge for many educators, especially in Title I schools. Textbooks provided by the district under study were the primary source of math instructional material. Moreover, the instruction of computation was the method used for preparing students for success with later problem solving lessons. The lack of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Test Results, Academic Standards, Problem Solving
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