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Peer reviewedDobson, Ken – Physics Education, 1988
Discusses a teaching method using investigational skills for Nuffield A-level Physics including assessment technique, change of the assessment criteria, advice for choosing the topic, and future development. (YP)
Descriptors: Experiments, Foreign Countries, Investigations, Physics
United States Patent Model Foundation, Alexander, VA. – 1988
The Invent America program addresses the need to provide K-8 students with opportunities to learn critical and creative thinking skills through the process of inventing. Students apply problem-solving skills as they turn their own creative ideas into inventions. It is an effort to integrate the curriculum, help students synthesize knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education
United States Patent Model Foundation, Alexander, VA. – 1988
The Invent America program addresses the need to provide K-8 students with opportunities to learn critical and creative thinking skills through the process of inventing. Students apply problem-solving skills as they turn their own creative ideas into inventions. It is an effort to integrate the curriculum, help students synthesize knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education
United States Patent Model Foundation, Alexander, VA. – 1988
The Invent America program addresses the need to provide K-8 students with opportunities to learn critical and creative thinking skills through the process of inventing. Students apply problem-solving skills as they turn their own creative ideas into inventions. It is an effort to integrate the curriculum, help students synthesize knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education
United States Patent Model Foundation, Alexander, VA. – 1988
The Invent America program addresses the need to provide K-8 students with opportunities to learn critical and creative thinking skills through the process of inventing. Students apply problem-solving skills as they turn their own creative ideas into inventions. It is an effort to integrate the curriculum, help students synthesize knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Creativity, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education
Download full textKirschner, P. A. – 1989
The Prime Minister's Committee on Natural Science in Education in Great Britain reported in 1918 that "...in many schools more time is spent in laboratory work than the results obtained can justify." Seventy years later this conclusion can often still be drawn. This is particularly a problem in open distance education where laboratory practicals,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Science, Experiments, Higher Education
