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Ramirez, Becky – Online Submission, 2009
Although the nursing profession has traditionally been associated with compassionate, patient, and caring behaviors, living in this advanced technological environment where patient related skills and tasks are often rushed caring behaviors are sometimes not seen. In order to improve high school nursing assistant student caring behaviors as well…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Allied Health Personnel, Curriculum Implementation, Curriculum Design
Clifford, Matthew Aaron – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Local instructional design describes the process of customization that naturally occurs when curriculum innovations interface with local classrooms and schools. Describing the practice of local instructional design can help to explain how curriculum is adapted to local conditions and provides insight on how instructional leaders mediate…
Descriptors: Science Education, Instructional Design, Instructional Leadership, Curriculum Design
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Mitchem, Katherine; Koury, Kevin; Fitzgerald, Gail; Hollingsead, Candice; Miller, Kevin; Tsai, Hui-Hsien; Zha, Shenghua – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2009
Interactive, multimedia cases with technology supports present new ways of teaching and learning in teacher education. In this mixed-methods, naturalistic study, the authors investigate how and what participants learn from multimedia cases and, in particular, how instructional implementation affects learning outcomes from multimedia cases.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Education Courses, Teaching Methods, Multimedia Instruction
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Lee, Kerry – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2009
This case study outlines a program developed by a group of 6 teachers' college lecturers who volunteered to provide a technology program to year 7 & 8 children (11- and 12-year-olds) for a year. This involved teaching technology once a week. As technology education was a new curriculum area when first introduced to the college, few lecturers…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Case Studies, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Odom, Sue; Glenn, Betty; Sanner, Susan; Cannella, Kathleen A. S. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2009
The faculty of an undergraduate research course with a diverse student body recognized that many students struggled with the concept of how to critique a research article. The traditional assignment method used to teach the critique process did not maximize student learning outcomes. The active learning strategy of peer review was used to enhance…
Descriptors: Student Research, Learning Strategies, Active Learning, Research Methodology
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Kindiki, Jonah Nyaga – Educational Research and Reviews, 2009
The boards of governors (BOG) are legally mandated by the ministry of education under the education act Cap 211 to manage secondary schools in Kenya. Their immediate roles have not been defined in the laws and there are no standards that have been adopted to measure their effectiveness. This study investigates effectiveness of the BOG in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools
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Lam, Chi-Chung; Lai, Edith; Wong, Janice – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2009
Using geographic information system (GIS) in teaching and learning geography is an important direction in the secondary geography curriculum in Hong Kong. In the present study, interviews were conducted individually with 28 geography teachers from different secondary schools in Hong Kong, with a view to finding their views on the inclusion of GIS…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries, Geographic Information Systems, Secondary School Curriculum
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Vanderlinde, Ruben; van Braak, Johan; Hermans, Ruben – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2009
In this essay, we state that establishing technology curricula by national governments causes a shift in the policy actions of educational technology support: from a technical rationale with a main focus on funding and resources to a pedagogical rationale with a main focus on student competencies. We illustrate our point of view by describing the…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Implementation
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Warburton, Steven – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
"Second Life" (SL) is currently the most mature and popular multi-user virtual world platform being used in education. Through an in-depth examination of SL, this article explores its potential and the barriers that multi-user virtual environments present to educators wanting to use immersive 3-D spaces in their teaching. The context is set by…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Internet
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Logan, Brenda – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2011
Today's classrooms are more diverse than ever. In fact, research shows that there will be a steady increase in Hispanic, Asian Americans, and African American students in the coming years. Therefore, differentiated instruction may be the panacea that educators are searching for. This paper commences with an introduction and then segways into a…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Teacher Response, Educational Principles, Teaching Methods
Doabler, Christian; Baker, Scott K.; Smolkowski, Keith; Fien, Hank; Clarke, Ben; Cary, Mari Strand; Chard, David – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The purpose of this 4-year efficacy trial, funded by IES under the Mathematics and Science Education topic, is to study the efficacy of a (Tier 1) core kindergarten math curriculum, "Early Learning in Mathematics" (ELM), when implemented under rigorous experimental conditions. In the first year of this study (2008-09), kindergarten…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Kindergarten, Teacher Student Relationship
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Brennan, Marie – Australian Journal of Education, 2011
Recent moves in Australia to institute a national curriculum emanated from federal governments of ostensibly different political persuasions in the period from 2003, building on developments that go back over 25 years. This article traces continuities and new developments, meditating on two questions: whether the current moves are politically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), National Curriculum, Alignment (Education)
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Putwain, Dave; Whiteley, Helen; Caddick, Lee – Educational Research, 2011
Background: It has been claimed that thematic or integrated approaches to curriculum delivery offer a range of advantages over subject-based modes of delivery including improved pupil motivation. Purpose: This study put claims regarding pupil motivation to the test, using the achievement goals framework. This contemporary approach to understanding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Design, Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness
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Carlson, Kieth A.; Winquist, Jennifer R. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2011
The study evaluates a semester-long workbook curriculum approach to teaching a college level introductory statistics course. The workbook curriculum required students to read content before and during class and then work in groups to complete problems and answer conceptual questions pertaining to the material they read. Instructors spent class…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grade Point Average, Active Learning, Workbooks
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Trenas, M. A.; Ramos, J.; Gutierrez, E. D.; Romero, S.; Corbera, F. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
This paper describes how a new "Moodle" module, called "CTPracticals", is applied to the teaching of the practical content of a basic computer organization course. In the core of the module, an automatic verification engine enables it to process the VHDL designs automatically as they are submitted. Moreover, a straightforward…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming Languages, Open Source Technology, Integrated Learning Systems
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