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Partnering With Homeschoolers: Part Time Education In Public Schools, Victoria Caruana Sep 1999

Partnering With Homeschoolers: Part Time Education In Public Schools, Victoria Caruana

Victoria Caruana, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


Towards Improving Agricultural Education In Nigerian Universities In The 21st Century, Mchivga Alexander Abelega Dr. Jul 1999

Towards Improving Agricultural Education In Nigerian Universities In The 21st Century, Mchivga Alexander Abelega Dr.

Dr. Mchivga Alexander Abelega

No abstract provided.


Report On The Elementary Teacher Survey Pilot Study On Behalf Of The Columbus Urban Systemic Initiative, Steven R. Rogg Jun 1999

Report On The Elementary Teacher Survey Pilot Study On Behalf Of The Columbus Urban Systemic Initiative, Steven R. Rogg

Steven R Rogg

This report completes the pilot study conducted by the Columbus Public Schools’ (CPS) Urban Systemic Initiative (USI)1 and the Center for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching in Mathematics Science and Technology (The Center@IMSA) of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA). This initial pilot study was designed to test the Elementary Teacher Survey prepared by the USI Teacher Support Teams. A validation study, to follow in the spring, will seek evidence of program impact on teaching practices in science and mathematics classrooms. In other words, it will validate the findings of the Elementary Teacher Survey via direct classroom observation …


The Eiu Student Life Survey: Explanations For Involvement, David Milberg, Douglas J. Bower, Charles G. Eberly Feb 1999

The Eiu Student Life Survey: Explanations For Involvement, David Milberg, Douglas J. Bower, Charles G. Eberly

Charles G. Eberly

The research reported in this paper was designed to assist the EIU General Education Assessment Committee to understand the ways in which undergraduate students made use of their time on campus, both in-class and out-of-class. The results provided stakeholders with information to support student activities and student involvement. The survey instrument used for data collection is also attached.


Work-Oriented Education In Agriculture: Implications For Quality Agricultural Education Programmes In Agriculture, Mchivga Alexander Abelega Dr. Jan 1999

Work-Oriented Education In Agriculture: Implications For Quality Agricultural Education Programmes In Agriculture, Mchivga Alexander Abelega Dr.

Dr. Mchivga Alexander Abelega

No abstract provided.


Post-Tenure Review Through Post-Tenure Development: What Linking Senior Faculty And Technology Taught Us, Mary Deane Sorcinelli Jan 1999

Post-Tenure Review Through Post-Tenure Development: What Linking Senior Faculty And Technology Taught Us, Mary Deane Sorcinelli

Mary Deane Sorcinelli

This article highlights a faculty development program designed to allow mid-career and senior faculty to effectively apply the capacities of technology to teaching and learning. It provides a profile of senior faculty and their work satisfactions and stresses; describes a senior teaching fellows program, TEACHnology, as one mechanism for senior faculty reviatalization; and suggests the kinds of practices that seem to best support senior faculty in terms of career development. It concludes with implications of such faculty development processes for meeting some of the challenges of post-tenure


After The Rain, Genan Anderson Dec 1998

After The Rain, Genan Anderson

Genan Anderson

Descriptive examples of building preschool curriculum on the children's environment by exploring children's questions and guiding their discovery of ways to find answers to them.


Institutional Context And The Development Of Critical Thinking: A Research Note, Linda Serra Hagedorn, Ernest T. Pascarella, Marcia Edison, John Braxton, Amaury Nora, Patrick T. Terenzini Dec 1998

Institutional Context And The Development Of Critical Thinking: A Research Note, Linda Serra Hagedorn, Ernest T. Pascarella, Marcia Edison, John Braxton, Amaury Nora, Patrick T. Terenzini

Linda Serra Hagedorn

It has long been a central aim of American postsecondary education to foster students' critical thinking skills. There are various definitions of critical thinking, but there seems to be a consensus that a constituent set of cognitive skills involves some or all of the following: making correct inferences from data, identifying central issues or assumptions in an argument, deducing conclusions from information or data provided, interpreting whether [End Page 265] conclusions are warranted on the basis of data given, and evaluating the validity of an argument (Brabeck & Wood, 1990; Furedy & Furedy, 1985; McMillan, 1987; Pascarella & Terenzini, 1991). …