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Learning Progressions: An Overview of Current Validation Methods. Bulletin, Issue 24
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Soto, Amanda C.; Taylor, Melinda A. – Pearson Education, Inc., 2013
Learning progressions represent a set of skills or pieces of knowledge ordered sequentially from least to most complex. This sequence can guide instruction as well as assessment content. This paper describes several useful methods for validating learning progressions including validating the relationship between the progression and student…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Sequential Learning, Validity, Mastery Learning
Planning, Organizing & Implementing Developmental Movement Skill Themes for Elementary School Children.
Gallahue, David L. – 1981
A four-step approach to planning and implementing a physical education program for children centers on a theme, through which movement skills are developed and refined. In preplanning, a scope and sequence chart are a means of providing a general overview of the school year and the progression involved from year to year. The second step involves…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction
The National Visual Arts Standards
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National Art Education Association, 1994
The "National Visual Arts Standards" form the basis for providing depth of knowledge and achievement in art for all students throughout their education and for developing effective art programs in all schools throughout the U.S. These standards offer one road map for competence and educational effectiveness, but without casting a mold into which…
Descriptors: Visual Arts, Art Education, Academic Standards, National Standards
Developing Skills in the Social Studies.
Kroen, William C., Jr. – 1980
Social studies teachers face pressures from demands for greater emphasis in the areas of multicultural aspects of the world population, expansive technological changes, citizenship and moral education, and accountability for basic competence. The latter demand offers an opportunity to return to the broad perspective of teaching students not "what…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Demonstrations (Educational), Drills (Practice), Elementary Education
Breaking from Tradition: Using Learning Styles to Teach Students How to Learn.
Foriska, Terry J. – Schools in the Middle, 1992
At a middle school in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, administrators and teachers used the cognitive domain of the National Association of Secondary School Principals' Learning Style Profile to design "products" that helped compensate for underachieving sixth and seventh graders' skill deficits in mathematics and science. Success…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Grade 6, Grade 7
Designing Instruction for Mastery Learning.
Daines, Delva – 1982
The basic philosophy of mastery learning is that all students can learn if they are provided with effective instruction and practice. Research on mastery learning has been done in many countries and at all levels of education in different subject areas, and it has repeatedly shown excellent results. This teaching and learning strategy succeeds in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Design, Difficulty Level