Both preservice and in-service PK-12 teachers in the United States are expected to create a classroom environment that fosters the creation of digital citizens. However, it is unclear whether or not teacher education programs build this direct instruction, or any other method of introducing students to the International Society for Technology in…

With the unveiling of the National Educational Technology Plan 2010, both preservice and inservice K12 teachers in the United States are expected to create a classroom environment that fosters the creation of digital citizens. However, it is unclear whether or not teacher education programs build this direct instruction, or any other method of…

Suggests three long-range, humanistic goals of English teachers for their students--imagination, power, and understanding; a paper presented at convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Washington, D.C., November 28, 1969). (RD)

The unique character and needs of the Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM) system has led to the creation of new computer programs and new techniques. Thus, earlier manual strategies (which were subject to error) for the handling of the large banks of behavioral objectives and test items, have been supplanted by a three-phase computer…

A report by the Educational Resources Information Center at the National Council of Teachers of English; includes ERIC abstracts of documents pertinent to this topic. (SW)

The authors report on the stage of a project (tertiary education in applied mathematics, TEAM) aimed at investigating first-year students' expectations and preferences and lecturers' aims in relation to first-year undergraduate mathematics courses. (Author/MN)

In 1982 the Dade County Public Schools (Florida) began developing test item banks for secondary subject areas, because other testing programs have limited utility for assessing the quality of curriculum, instruction, or learning in specific content areas. In May l984, the approximately 17,000 seventh graders enrolled in Life Science and the…

As the first in a series of monographs on competency-based education (CBE), this paper presents background information and exercises to aid instructors in understanding and utilizing performance goals as tools for articulation, program development, and student evaluation. After introductory material discussing the major differences between…

This final report formulates objectives for literary instruction of a type suitable for inclusion in a central standard curriculum for the Swedish Comprehensive School and a coordination of curricular objectives with instructional procedures and evaluation methods. Based on results of questionnaires sent to literature methods teachers, literary…