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Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. Program Implementation and Review Branch. – 1988
An Ontario (Canada) provincial review of geography instruction was undertaken to: (1) determine student achievement levels and program effectiveness; (2) identify implementation strategies for a compulsory course, entitled "Canadian Studies Geography"; and (3) pilot test a new review model designed to analyze intended, implemented, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research
World Eagle, Inc., Wellesley, MA. – 1989
This document contains reproducible black and white materials for teaching about the 1990 United States census. There are maps, charts, and graphs of population projections by region; historical census data; projections of populations changes; world population; minority population figures; age charts; number of dependents; housing units;…
Descriptors: Charts, Demography, Graphs, Human Geography
Download full textStauffer, Cheryl Lynn, Ed. – 2000
This booklet focuses on eight elements of population dynamics: "Population Growth and Distribution"; "Natural Increase and Future Growth"; "Effect of Migration on Population Growth"; "Three Patterns of Population Change"; "Patterns of World Urbanization"; "The Status of Women";…
Descriptors: Demography, Females, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Baldwin, Harriet; And Others – 1984
Statistics representing social and economic conditions in 125 developed and developing countries with populations of more than one million are presented. The booklet presents a series of maps, charts, graphs and tables representing separate sections on life expectancy, adult literacy rate, population growth rate, gross national product per capita,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Crews, Kimberly A. – 1987
One of the challenges that face humanity is how to manage resource and environmental endowments in a way that will guarantee continued survival and ensure the well-being of future generations. Those resources most important to human survival are food, water, and energy. When the population of the world reached 5 billion in 1987, approximately 87…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Conservation (Environment), Developed Nations, Developing Nations
PDF pending restorationManitoba Dept. of Education and Training, Winnipeg. – 1991
The "sciences humaines" provincial assessment was conducted in June 1991 in Franco-Manitoban (Canadian) schools and in the French immersion program. Tests were administered to students in grades 8 and 10. Test results are presented in two preliminary reports, one for Franco-Manitoban schools and the present report for French immersion…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Foreign Countries
Rock, Donald A.; Pollack, Judith M. – 1991
The National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) is designed to monitor the transition of a national sample of young adults as they progress from junior to senior high school and then to postsecondary education or the world of work. An in-depth description is provided of the rationale, development, and psychometric properties of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Citizenship Education, Geography, Grade 8
Rock, Donald A.; And Others – 1995
This report documents the development and validation of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) cognitive test battery. The cognitive test battery assesses growth between grades 8 and 12 in the content areas of reading comprehension, mathematics, science, and history/citizenship/geography. The battery was part of the NELS:88…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Bayesian Statistics, Citizenship Education
