The impact of DEEP on 14 participating school systems, levels K-12, is discussed in terms of origin of curricular materials, and its influence in prompting new directions, ideas, or programs. Part II includes reports from individual schools. Each school reports on curriculum development process, objectives, summer institute, nature of the project,…

Discusses the rationale underlying the production of 16 interactive teaching packages designed to demonstrate to 15-16 year olds the historical, domestic, industrial, economic, and socio-moral implications of chemistry. Briefly describes each package and reviews assessment results. (DS)

Developed for educators and trainers in the U.S. Navy, this Instructional Quality Inventory (IQI) is designed to provide quality control and evaluation procedures for instructional development. A by-step instructional development approach is provided for each of five categories: objective adequacy, test consistency, test adequacy, presentation…

This project was based on recent interview research which suggested that in choosing operations for story problems in mathematics many students are guided by computational considerations rather than meanings for the operations. This project aimed to refine the catalogue of strategies used by students and to design and test instructional materials…

In 1980, the International Environmental Education Program of UNESCO published Strategies for Developing an Environmental Education Curriculum, to be used as a working document for a series of regional workshops. This publication is a revision of the 1980 document and is intended to provide an update for curriculum developers in environmental…

In its fifth year of operation, the project served about 2,000 students in the Philadelphia public schools. The three components of the project are: (1) Model A, providing bilingual education from prekindergarten to fifth grade, (2) Model B, parallel in pattern to Model A but serving grades 1-4 and grade 2 at othe schools, and (3) Arriba, designed…

Reflects on reasons why the New Social Studies movement failed. Analyzes five developments to account for its failure. Discusses the author's establishment of Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Teaching Center. Explains how lessons from earlier attempts at educational reform have been applied at CMU. Reviews the New Social Studies movement's…

This guide, which is aimed primarily at those responsible for providing learning opportunities within further education in England and Wales, deals with managing open learning. Addressed in the individual chapters of the guide are the following topics: the nature of open learning; the production of learning materials; the impact of open learning…