With examples and illustrations, the book presents a portrait of mathematics learning: Research findings on what children know about numbers by the time they arrive in pre-K and the implications for mathematics instruction.
The National Research Council (NRC) has undertaken a three-phase project to explore the possibility of a program to attract science, mathematics and engineering PhDs to careers in K-12 education.
What is good undergraduate teaching? This book discusses how to evaluate undergraduate teaching of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology and what characterizes effective teaching in these fields.
This book identifies areas that represent new needs and opportunities for human factors research in the coming decades.
... Ann Arbor James Ashton-Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Bruce Bernard, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Cincinnati, Ohio Sidney Blair, Loyola University ...
... Ann Arbor James Ashton-Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Bruce Bernard, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Cincinnati, Ohio Sidney Blair, Loyola University ...
... Sciences and Education, Committee on the Federal Role in Education Research Gregg B. Jackson, Richard C. Atkinson ... "education summit," School Year Extension Commission, National Writing Project, and education reform evaluation.
A large program grant to Teachers College of Columbia University supported work with suburban school districts in ... policy linkage, and community-organizing projects that benefit language-minority children, youth, and families.
The document is to be used to provide structure for the development, organization, implementation, and assessment of ... practical knowledge from the start, and that changes in this knowledge be monitored throughout reform projects.
courses are organized within a college physics department may influence how high school physics teachers organize ... some institutions (e.g., Rothman and Narum, 2000) anticipate reforms in undergraduate education that may change the ...
Blacks and American Society National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, ... there are 2 black athletic directors, 3 head football coaches, and 29 head basketball coaches (Edwards, 1987:15).
A large program grant to Teachers College of Columbia University supported work with suburban school districts in ... policy linkage, and community-organizing projects that benefit language-minority children, youth, and families.
This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone �including parents �directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of ...
Visual Impairments: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits examines SSA's methods of determining disability for people with visual impairments, recommends changes that could be made now to improve the process and the outcomes, ...
What should NAEP do to meet these expectations? This book provides a blueprint for a new paradigm, important to education policymakers, professors, and students, as well as school administrators and teachers, and education advocates.
New and improved therapies to treat and protect against drug dependence and abuse are urgently needed. In the United States alone about 50 million people regularly smoke tobacco and another 5 million are addicted to other drugs.
While these data identify no risk to the fetus from immunization, they are very preliminary and further study is needed in order to assess the safety and acceptability of immunization as a treatment for drug dependence in women with ...
Previously, she has worked as project director on a National Institute of Nursing Research–funded study ... She was chair of a symposium on the current state of the science of drug addiction and pregnancy held by the National Institute ...
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Improving Theory and Research on Quality Enhancement in Organizations: Report of a Workshop