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Direct linkHeenan, Barbara; Houghton, Nina; Ramage, Katherine; St. John, Mark; Stokes, Laura – Inverness Research, 2017
The National Writing Project (NWP) received an Investing in Innovation grant in 2012 designed to provide 7-10th grade teachers in high-poverty, low-achieving rural school districts with professional development. The goal of the NWP effort, the College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP), was to enhance teachers' capacity to teach…
Descriptors: Poverty, School Districts, Disadvantaged Schools, Program Descriptions
St. John, Mark; Castori, Pam – Inverness Research, 2014
The Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators (ISEE) is a national effort to improve STEM education and workforce development by transforming how the next generation of scientists and engineers teach and mentor. Housed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ISEE is the legacy of the educational side of the Center for Adaptive Optics…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Course Improvement Projects, Labor Force Development, Professional Development
St. John, Mark; Castori, Pam – Inverness Research, 2014
The Akamai Workforce Initiative (AWI) is a program that seeks to develop a skilled local STEM workforce to meet the needs of Hawai'i's growing high-tech industry. Launched as an internship program in 2002, AWI is the result of a long-term collaboration among the University of California Santa Cruz's Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Descriptions, Educational Development, Labor Force Development
St. John, Mark – Inverness Research, 2014
The Algebra Project DR K-12, funded by the National Science Foundation as a Research and Development Project, addressed the challenge of offering significant STEM content for students to ensure public literacy and workforce readiness. The project's primary purpose was to test the feasibility and effectiveness of a model for establishing four-year…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Algebra, Demonstration Programs, Cohort Analysis
Allen, Kasi; St. John, Mark; Tambe, Pamela – Inverness Research, 2009
Back in 1992, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded grants to five curriculum development teams and charged them with the task of starting over. Five years later, each of the development teams had produced an innovative and "integrated" curriculum. All represented notable departures from the commonly encountered, calculus-driven high…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, High Schools, Mathematics Education
St. John, Mark; Carroll, Becky; Helms, Jen; Robles, Dawn; Stelmah, Lynn – Inverness Research, 2008
Over the course of three rounds of consecutive funding, the National Science Foundation (NSF) invested in the Traveling Exhibits at Museums of Science (TEAMS) collaborative. Since 1996, the TEAMS collaborative museums have developed traveling exhibitions and related education materials to circulate through each other's museums, and then more…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Summative Evaluation, Research Projects, Museums
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Both evaluators and storytellers pull together the events they hear and see; they create unified, coherent entities out of the parts they gather. This guide considers two levels at which the understanding of the nature and methods of narrative writing, or storytelling, can be of use to the evaluator. The highest level is to use the notion of…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Models
Peer reviewedSt. John, Mark – Physics Teacher, 1980
This article describes an introductory physics laboratory program which teaches three skills: (1) the ability to make estimates and order-of-magnitude calculations, and to use these to check experimental work, (2) the ability to use qualitative and quantitative statistics, and (3) the ability to describe an experiment in one's own words.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Science, Higher Education, Physics
St. John, Mark; Helms, Jenifer V.; Castori, Pam; Hirabayashi, Judy; Lopez, Laurie; Phillips, Michelle – Inverness Research, 2009
The documents enclosed in this report provide a comprehensive and systematic review of the progress made in developing a network organization capable of supporting nanoscience education for the public on a national scale. There is a logic to the studies that were done and to the reports that are included in this notebook. The following are the…
Descriptors: Workshops, Leadership, Administrators, Scientists
