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Download full textChristenson, Sandra L.; And Others – 1987
The monograph summarizes findings from literature concerned with instructional effectiveness and applies those findings to the education of handicapped students. Emphasis is given to the relationship between instructional variables and positive academic outcomes for students. Characteristics of effective instruction for regular education,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
PDF pending restorationAstin, Alexander W.; And Others – Leadership Abstracts, 1993
Designed to help educators examine their current student assessment practices and ensure that assessment activities lead to real improvements, this paper lists and discusses nine principles for assessing student learning. The nine principles are: (1) the assessment of student learning begins with educational values; (2) assessment is most…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria
Lenze, Lisa Firing – NEA Higher Education Research Center Update, 1996
Research on the effectiveness of specific strategies for faculty and instructional development at the college level is reviewedd, focusing on five delivery strategies: (1) workshops; (2) instructional consultation; (3) grants for instructional improvement; (4) colleague collaboration; and (5) print resources. In each case, the strategy is…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Consultation Programs, Faculty Development, Grants
Brown, Robert S. – Scope, 1993
This theme issue on acceleration of gifted students offers an Ontario (Canada) perspective on early entrance to school and grade-skipping. It begins with a history of acceleration programs and then outlines their current status, with less than 40 percent of school boards with gifted programs using some form of acceleration. It goes on to analyze…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Age Grade Placement
Lockwood, Anne Turnbaugh – Focus in Change, 1993
This theme issue presents a variety of viewpoints on the topic of educational programs for gifted and talented students, in three papers by Anne Turnbaugh Lockwood. The first paper, "Beyond the Golden Chromosome," reviews the ideas of Joseph S. Renzulli concerning the definition of giftedness, use of the label of gifted, the need for…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Definitions, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Hoskyn, Janita J. – McRAT Report, 1994
A report on implementation of the Multicultural Reading and Thinking (McRAT) Program in Arkansas from 1989-92 chronicles the program's development, operation, and results. McRAT is a staff development program designed to help teachers infuse higher order thinking processes and multicultural concepts into regular classroom curricula (grades 3 to…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Beginning Teachers, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education
