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Ogletree, Roberta J.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1995
This paper describes a project that developed a method to guide the selection of appropriate sexuality education curricula to meet school and community needs. The study also evaluated 23 school-based sexuality education curricula. The curricula were generally rated "good" overall, but there was a need for improvement. (SM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Guides

Nelson, Jennifer – History Teacher, 1992
Describes history's curriculum role as it fell from a status of prominence in the 1890s to one of unimportance, submerged in social studies. Notes that history is again becoming an important curriculum area. Suggests that the resurgence of history education is the result of history educators' focus on what to teach and exciting teaching methods.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational History, History Instruction

WPA: Writing Program Administration, 1993
Presents a draft (representing a massive revision) of the guidelines that have directed campus self-studies (preceding visits from WPA consultant-evaluators) for over a decade. Requests interested persons to make comments and propose changes to the draft document. (RS)
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Curriculum Evaluation, Guidelines, Higher Education

Bowen, Craig W. – Science Education, 1994
Delineates various conceptions of curriculum and uses one of these conceptions as basis for the development of a classroom learning environment instrument. Provides an overview of how a curriculum can be conceived as a social construction that arises through interaction of participants and explains how this instrument might be used by teachers and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education

Bess, David Michael – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1991
Discusses implementation of comprehensive musicianship in the Southern Region of the Contemporary Music Project's Institutes for Music in Contemporary Education (IMCE) from 1966 to 1968. Concludes that the program did not result in long-term changes in undergraduate music curricula. Explores reasons for the program's failure to produce lasting…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Higher Education, Majors (Students)

Salter, Kit; Salter, Cathy – Journal of Geography, 1992
Discusses the efforts of the Geography Consensus Project to determine what students should know in geography at different points in their schooling. Describes how attempts at education reform affect the teaching of geography through the establishment of world class standards. Encourages teachers to testify at hearings determining how geography…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change, Educational Objectives

Levstik, Linda S.; Pappas, Christine C. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1992
Contrasts Piagetian based research with psychological research of script knowledge-based and domain-specific knowledge restructuring theories. Suggests that a cultural framework incorporating script and domain specific ideas would be more effective for studying historical understanding than Piagetian theories. Concludes that children can…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research, Elementary Education

Blyler, Nancy Roundy – Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 1993
Calls for a reexamination of the current conventional separation between business and technical communication as evidenced in university curricula. Argues that the separation fails to enable students to better understand workplace discourse. Claims firmly entrenched interests, both inside and outside academe, support the status quo and mitigate…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Discourse Modes
White, Edward M. – ADE Bulletin, 1991
Observes that support for writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) programs remains shallow at American colleges and universities. Describes California State University-San Bernardino's WAC program. Identifies features of the university's program, and describes some of its problems. Argues that WAC will survive as it builds departmental self-interest…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Problems, Higher Education

McGovern, Thomas V.; And Others – American Psychologist, 1991
Undergraduate psychology is considered a contemporary major achieving general education and study-in-depth goals. Past reports on the psychology major are reviewed to define the field of study. Eight common goals, a common framework for course requirements, and four curricular models, adaptable to a variety of institutional settings, are…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational History, General Education

Pateman, Brian; Jinks, Annette M. – Nurse Education Today, 1999
Interviews with 18 nursing students elicited views on curriculum issues, program support, and communication. Comparison of these qualitative data with data derived from teacher-devised criterion statements revealed incompatibilities. An eclectic approach to evaluation that includes students'"stories" was recommended. (SK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Experience, Higher Education, Nursing Education

Flores, Glenn; Gee, Denise; Kastner, Beth – Academic Medicine, 2000
A telephone survey of 126 U.S. and 16 Canadian medical schools found that fewer than 8 percent of schools had separate courses on cultural sensitivity or multicultural issues. Such issues were usually addressed in one to three lectures that were part of larger, mostly preclinical courses. Significantly more Canadian than U.S. schools provided no…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Evaluation

Saffran, Murray – Biochemical Education, 1997
Examines the Organ Systems part of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 Content Outline for its biochemical components. The General Principles part of the Content Outline of the examination does not match the basic science teaching in medical schools with organ system curricula. Suggests a place where the basic principles in…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Biochemistry, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Difficulties Regarding Subject Difficulties: Developing Reasonable Explanations for Observable Data.

Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor; Vincent, Luke – Oxford Review of Education, 1997
Responds to an article that questioned the authors' previous attempts to define "subject difficulty" and compare subjects based on their level of difficulty. Argues that "subject difficulty" is a reasonable term and is important to the interpretation of examination data. Questions arguments that only qualitative judgments of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Interpretation, Educational Research

Davis, Ardis K., Ed.; Kahn, Norman B., Jr., Ed.; Wartman, Steven A., Ed.; Wilson, Modena E. H., Ed.; Kahn, Ruth H., Ed. – Academic Medicine, 2001
Contains articles describing and evaluating the Interdisciplinary Generalist Curriculum (IGC) Project, a curriculum for the first two years of medical school designed to encourage more graduates to enter generalist fields. Articles are grouped in sections: "What Was the ICG Project?"; "What Can Others Learn from the IGC…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change, Higher Education