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Direct linkNolen, Susan Bobbitt; Wetzstein, Lia; Goodell, Alexandra – Cognition and Instruction, 2020
Disciplinary activity in science is tool-mediated, and instructional designers often build in opportunities for students to use the conceptual and material tools of the discipline as they engage in activity. When this activity takes place in schools, students and teachers may modify or reject disciplinary tools to fit the goals of schooling. We…
Descriptors: High School Students, Advanced Placement Programs, Student Projects, Active Learning
Poonoosamy, Mico – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2016
International mindedness is considered by many educational researchers and organizations as a determining feature in international education. This article used data as part of a PhD case study inquiry to explore how international mindedness is developed by two students in an IB school in an Indian Ocean Island Nation. Through a qualitative…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Cultural Awareness, Advanced Placement Programs, Case Studies
Keith, Kenneth D.; Hammer, Elizabeth Yost; Blair-Broeker, Charles T.; Ernst, Randal M. – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
Although institutional recognition of high school psychology is fairly recent, psychology and psychological subject matters have a history dating to at least the 1830s. By the middle of the twentieth century, high school psychology courses existed in nearly all U.S. states, and enrollments grew throughout the second half of the century. However,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational History, State Policy, Curriculum Implementation
Jackson, C. Kirabo – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
I analyze the longer-run effects of a college-preparatory program implemented in inner-city schools that included payments to eleventh- and twelfth- grade students and their teachers for passing scores on Advanced Placement exams. Affected students attended college in greater numbers, were more likely to remain in college beyond their first year,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Labor Market, College Preparation
Walker, Kimberly LaRaine – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This research study was designed to determine leadership and instructional behaviors of administrators and teachers who are participants in the Alabama AP Initiative, as well as evaluate the perceptions of the AAPI with regard to student performance. The importance of this research was three-fold. First, this study provided principals, as well as…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Community Leaders, Curriculum Development, Rural Schools
Download full textHertberg-Davis, Holly; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Kyburg, Robin M. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2006
Although limited research exists on the appropriateness of Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) Programs for gifted secondary learners, these courses serve as the primary methods of meeting the needs of gifted students in most high schools. This qualitative study employed a grounded theory approach to investigate how…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Honors Curriculum, High Schools, Advanced Placement
