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Project Tomorrow, 2024
In the 2023-24 Speak Up Research facilitated by Project Tomorrow®, 75% of high school students and 66% of middle school students say their principal use of technology in class is to complete an online quiz or assessment. While online testing provides many benefits to educators and schools in terms of efficiency and potentially greater access to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Technology Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2020
This document provides information on methodology that accompanies the main report, "Teaching and Learning Within a Guided Pathways Framework: A Playbook." Contents include: (1) About the Survey; (2) Data; (3) Recoded Variables; (4) Analyses; and (5) Results. [For the full report, see ED610562.]
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Programs, Learner Engagement
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Newman, Denis; Finney, Pamela B.; Bell, Steve; Turner, Herb; Jaciw, Andrew P.; Zacamy, Jenna L.; Gould, Laura Feagans – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2012
This report presents the results of an experiment conducted in Alabama beginning in the 2006/07 school year, to determine the effectiveness of the Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative (AMSTI), which aims to improve mathematics and science achievement in the state's K-12 schools. This study is the first randomized controlled trial…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Elementary Schools
Ravitz, Jason – Buck Institute for Education, 2008
In the fall of 2007, the Buck Institute for Education (BIE) conducted a national survey of high school reform and project based learning (PBL). The study included teachers from several major high school reform networks that emphasize PBL as an instructional approach: New Tech High, High Tech High, Edvision Schools, and Envision Schools. It also…
Descriptors: High Schools, Student Projects, School Restructuring, Active Learning
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Scotchmer, Marion; McGrath, Daniel J.; Coder, Ellinor – National Center for Education Statistics, 2005
As in many professions, elementary and secondary school teachers are expected to participate regularly in professional development activities. These activities may be intended to help teachers to learn new teaching methods, broaden their subject matter content knowledge, or stay informed of changing policies, among other purposes. Researchers have…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers, Professional Development
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Cooper, Sarah; Bottomley, Colin; Gordon, Jillian – Industry and Higher Education, 2004
Academics in the field of entrepreneurship education are increasingly aware that, while class-based knowledge input is a vital component of learning, the traditional lecture-based, didactic methods of teaching and learning alone are insufficient. In an attempt to achieve 'real, active learning' various interactive techniques have been developed,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Student Projects, Foreign Countries, Active Learning
Kim, Jason J.; Crasco, Linda M.; Blank, Rolf K.; Smithson, John – 2001
This report presents results from eight Urban Systemic Initiative (USI) school district surveys conducted during 1999 and 2000. The Survey of Enacted Curriculum is the study component of a National Science Foundation grant on how reform works in USI districts. The study explores the impact of USI programs on student achievement and the learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Active Learning, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development
Brawner, Catherine E.; Felder, Richard M.; Allen, Rodney; Brent, Rebecca – Grantee Submission, 2003
SUCCEED (Southeastern University and College Coalition for Engineering Education) is an eight-campus coalition of engineering schools formed in 1992 under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. In 1997, a faculty survey of instructional practices and attitudes regarding the climate for teaching on the Coalition campuses was designed…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Active Learning