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Design And Evaluation Of An Environmental Science Curriculum For Secondary Students, Carolyn Knox Cooper
Design And Evaluation Of An Environmental Science Curriculum For Secondary Students, Carolyn Knox Cooper
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Environmental education is becoming an increasingly important component of secondary science education as our society attempts to minimize the exploitations and damaging actions of humankind on the earth. Environmental education has evolved primarily from environmental consciousness in the 1960s to an environmentally active focus in the 1990s. This project examined the effectiveness of an environmental education curriculum that focuses on improving environmental behaviors and attitudes as well as knowledge.
The review of the literature for this project indicates that responsible environmental behaviors are linked to four types of environmental education categories. These categories are hierarchical and include: 1) ecological concepts, …
Relations Between Social-Environmental Characteristics Of Families And Career Decision/Indecision Of Secondary Tech Prep Students, Garlon Mobley Webb
Relations Between Social-Environmental Characteristics Of Families And Career Decision/Indecision Of Secondary Tech Prep Students, Garlon Mobley Webb
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The study examined the relations of social-environmental characteristics of families and demographic variables on career decision/indecision of 425 secondary Tech Prep students in North Florida. Career decision/indecision was the dependent variable, measured by the Career Decision Scale (Osipow, Carney, Winer, Yanico, & Koschier, 1987). Predictor independent variables included social-environmental characteristics of families as measured by the Family Environment Scale (Moos & Moos, 1981). Other predictor independent variables included academic achievement (reading comprehension and mathematics)' gender, economic disadvantage and race.
No significant mean differences were found by gender and by grade of Tech Prep students on the Certainty Scale or the …
Guidelines For Oral Story Reading, David T. Sherman
Guidelines For Oral Story Reading, David T. Sherman
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Guidelines for primary grade (k-3) teachers to use in oral story reading were developed as a means of increasing students' reading achievement. These guidelines were incorporated into primary grade lesson plans. Each lesson plan included a research principle which served as the lesson objective, identified a book for oral reading, and described pre, post, and during activities.
The lesson plans were pilot-tested by primary grade teachers at an elementary school site. Data were collected and analyzed to determine teacher perceptions of the effectiveness of the guidelines. This analysis indicated that the teachers perceived the guidelines to be effective. Based on …