Digital model platforms and applications are common in anatomy education and continue to grow in number, which suggests that educators and students find use for these tools despite the lack of widely accepted best practices. Consequently, it is a challenge for educators to mindfully integrate digital models into curriculum. This short-term,…

The overall aim of this article is to analyze the relationships between the roles of assessment in pedagogy, the interactions between curriculum assessment and pedagogy, and the study of pupils' progression in learning. It is argued that well-grounded evidence of pupils' progressions in learning is crucial to the work of teachers, so that a method…

A 5-stage method using an idealized model to identify roles of school system personnel and assess their level of implementation was developed to examine the roles of those school system employees who were or should have been involved in the innovative Curriculum Resources Information Bank (CRIB) project. (SB)

Authors feel that bringing the nonverbal communication of teachers to the level of conscious awareness could make possible the analysis and understanding of the nonverbal dimension in classroom communication. (Authors)

Inspired by observation of a teacher-designed management studies program at an Irish secondary school, this paper demonstrates that whole school improvement is possible only after staff have acquired proficiency in the disciplines required of learning organizations. Free of externally imposed syllabi, teachers were forced to rethink, relearn, and…

This model is for use by State education agencies, local school districts or individual school staffs. It is designed to assess the degree of understanding and awareness of school board members, staff and students in how and why role stereotyping occurs, and how to go about reducing role stereotyping in the school environment. Compiled of…

A recent study found a lack of homogeneity among supervisors with respect to their role performance despite a similarity with respect to role expectation. To develop an accurate descriptive model of the supervisory process, data were collected describing both the activities of supervisors and their perception of the purpose of supervision.…

The role of the school counselor as defined by counselors and counselor educators is not always consistent with the role expectations held by students, parents, and administrators. Two research studies were conducted to develop a model curriculum for the preparation of secondary school counselors. The first was a national survey of school…

The first year of a proposed five year evaluation of the extended pilot trials of CEMREL's Aesthetic Education Program, AEP, is discussed. This program envisions the development of an aesthetic education curriculum for grades K-12 and is an attempt to involve the children in integrated arts experiences - music, drama, dance, art, and literature.…

Options was a two-year research and curriculum design project conducted at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire) under a grant for the Women's Educational Equity Act Program Staff. The project completed the following: assessment of career-related perceptions and self-defined needs of rural young people in five different rural regions (Northern New…

BOOST, Business and Office Occupations Student Training, is a research and development project devoted to the improvement of programs in office occupations for disadvantaged students. The project was designed to discover the perceptions of disadvantaged students concerning office work and to develop a program for modifying those perceptions that…

Because the meanings of "process" and "education" are extremely connotative and ambiguous, this book was designed to develop an explicit set of goals, definitions, assumptions, justifications, and a rationale for the practice of process education. It is concerned with the practical, logical, and philosophical foundations of process education…

The study reported here describes the development and testing of a curriculum model to extend the role of public health nurses into community nurse practitioners (CNP). The content is presented in six chapters. The first chapter overviews the conceptual framework for the CNP role and then describes the three-course sequence comprising the CNP…

The environmental education unit is intended for use by elementary school classroom teachers as they develop and implement programs to help students become visually aware of street environments. The teacher's guide is presented in two major sections. Section I consists primarily of reading and observing exercises. Lessons are entitled "What…

This book is designed to help educators design and plan curriculum on women's studies. It focuses on the curriculum changes needed to eliminate sex role stereotypes and presents a new model for achieving psychological androgyny--a climate in which men and women will be able to develop freely without the inhibitions and constraints of sex roles.…