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Measuring Success: Examining Achievement and Perceptions of Online Advanced Placement Students
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Johnston, Sharon; Barbour, Michael K. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2013
The purpose of the research was to compare student performance on Advanced Placement (AP) exams from 2009 to 2011 at Florida Virtual School and to explore student perceptions of their online course experience compared with the classroom-based AP experiences. The data indicated that students performed at levels comparable to the national sample but…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Academic Achievement, Online Courses, Student Attitudes
Connecting High School and University Teachers in National and International Contexts: Perspectives from the 2012 Bangalore Workshop of the AAG-CGGE
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Basu, Pratyusha; Pawson, Eric; Akhter, Majed; Palmer, David; Mervine, Valerie M. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
This paper focuses on the Center for Global Geography Education teaching workshop held in Bangalore, India, in March 2012 which served as a collaborative forum linking geography teachers in secondary and higher education in the USA and India. It considers the inclusion of the Advanced Placement Human Geography teachers from the USA and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College School Cooperation, Geography, Geography Instruction
Promoting Knowledge Creation Discourse in an Asian Primary Five Classroom: Results from an Inquiry into Life Cycles
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van Aalst, Jan; Truong, Mya Sioux – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
The phrase "knowledge creation" refers to the practices by which a community advances its collective knowledge. Experience with a model of knowledge creation could help students to learn about the nature of science. This research examined how much progress a teacher and 16 Primary Five (Grade 4) students in the International…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Advanced Placement Programs, Scientific Principles, Social Structure
Impact of OpenCourseWare Publication on Higher Education Participation and Student Recruitment
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Carson, Stephen; Kanchanaraksa, Sukon; Gooding, Ira; Mulder, Fred; Schuwer, Robert – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
The free and open publication of course materials (OpenCourseWare or OCW) was initially undertaken by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and other universities primarily to share educational resources among educators (Abelson, 2007). OCW, however, and more in general open educational resources (OER), have also provided well-documented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Courseware, Open Source Technology, Outcome Measures
Findings from an Independent Evaluation of the AMNH's Online Seminars on Science Course: "The Ocean System"
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Inverness Research, 2008
Inverness Research studied the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Seminars on Science program for eight years, from its inception in 1998 to 2006. This paper presents teacher survey ratings for "The Ocean System", along with profiles of three teachers who took the course. Course takers report on the annual follow-up surveys that…
Descriptors: Oceanography, Educational Resources, Advanced Placement Programs, Private Schools
Findings from an Independent Evaluation of the AMNH's Online Seminars on Science Course: "Evolution"
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Inverness Research, 2008
Inverness Research studied the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Seminars on Science program for eight years, from its inception in 1998 to 2006. In 2008, Inverness Research conducted additional studies of the AMNH's new online course, "Evolution". This paper presents teacher survey ratings for "Evolution", along with…
Descriptors: Evolution, Suburban Schools, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)