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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Curriculum analysis"”.
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Teachers' perceptions and curriculum analysis for a zoo education program
… well, students engaged, and integrating curriculum the motivation to participate. Research to evaluate modules was subjective. Modules addressed Science and Social Studies for New Jersey, Science and Technology, Environment and Ecology for Pennsylvania. Analysis recommended the addition …
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School science for six year olds: a neo-vygotskian approach to curriculum analysis
… olds as 'Science' in key South African Grade R curriculum texts. The study draws on a neo-Vygotskian conceptualisation of forms of knowledge and child development to develop a language of description in terms of which the selected texts are analysed. Representations of knowledge in the …
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The recruitment of experience in a university adult education diploma : a curriculum analysis
… in an Adult Education Diploma. Through an analysis of the written curriculum, three aspects of recruiting experience are addressed: the different kinds of experience that are recruited on the course, the ways in which these kinds of experience are recruited, and the purpose of recruiting …
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Curriculum Analysis in Teacher Preparation Programs at the College of Basic Education in Kuwait
… standards for analyzing the teacher preparation curriculum: content knowledge, instruction, diversity, professional development, and field work. In addition, research and evaluation of teacher education programs were reviewed for perceptions of student teachers and new teachers about their …
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An Application of a Revised Morrissett's Curriculum Analysis System to a High School English Program
… the bulk of work for any person attempting curriculum evaluation at the local level:</p> <p>1. Meaningful evaluative information must be obtained. Instead of glib and generalized assumptions about what ought to be, one should achieve specific information relevant to the researcher as well as …
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The "M" in STEM : the integration of high school mathematics standards in STEM education.
This study is a curriculum analysis of a national high school STEM curriculum and the Texas state standards for high school mathematics. The STEM curriculum was analyzed to find the Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, and Precalculus concepts that were included and to determine if the high school …
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Toward cross-curricular coherence in preparing teacher candidates for culturally responsive teaching
… Committee: Ken Zeichner College of Education Curriculum and Instruction This qualitative curriculum analysis study investigates the presence of cross-curricular coherence in a secondary teacher education program in preparing teacher candidates for culturally responsive teaching (CRT). This …
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A Case Study Exploring Organizational Development and Performance Management in the Operational Infrastructure of a Professional Working Organization, Using Academic Constructs
<p>Curriculum, as a concept, has been historically associated with traditional schooling, but the reality is that its application extends to many arenas beyond academia. Through the case study lens, this dissertation utilized the ideologies of curricular theorists John Dewey, John Franklin Bobbitt, …
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Children's Understanding of the Uses of Parentheses
… of operations (e.g., 5 x (3 + 2) = 5 x 5). A curriculum analysis and preliminary study lead to the following model regarding the learning of these uses: During the first of five phases, children learn the basic operations and the order-of-operations rule but have no understanding about the use …
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Alignment of intended learning outcomes, curriculum and assessment in a middle school science program
… study focused on the intended learning outcomes, curriculum and assessment in the science curriculum offered at a regional independent Middle School in the state of Victoria, Australia. In-school assessment has indicated that the current science curriculum of this Middle School may not develop …
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How can I nurture compassion in my classroom?
… and actions. Through the use of thematic data analysis, common themes emerged revealing the findings of my study. The results indicated that compassion can be nurtured in the primary classroom as part of the current curriculum. Analysis conveyed that particular teaching methodologies have an …
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A comparison of the official primary mathematics curriculum in Ghana with the way in which it is implemented by teachers
The official school mathematics curriculum - textbooks, teacher's handbooks, and syllabus - has a powerful influence on classroom practice in a developing country like Ghana, where many teachers with low teaching qualifications hardly ever have access to other sources of information and activity …
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Cultural diversity and identity discourses in the design and implementation of the New Zealand curriculum key competencies: a Bernsteinian analysis
The key competencies as a curriculum construct have appeared in several national curricula from the early 2000s. Many have their origins in the Definition and Selection of Key Competencies Project (DeSeCo), commissioned by the supra-national Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development …
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Healing the Colonial Wound: Decolonising Ghanaian Art Education through Reparative Art Praxis
… educators. This methodology has three levels of analysis: (1) deconstruction; (2) decentring; and (3) healing. First, this study deconstructs the foundations of national and international curricula used in Ghana and contextualises the problem further through reflections on my personal teaching …
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Mathematics education reform in Trinidad and Tobago: the case of reasoning and proof in secondary school
… reformers have promoted changes in mathematics curriculum and instruction. A focus of the reform has been that of increasing opportunities for students to engage in reasoning and proving. However, little is known about how these policies affect the opportunities for reasoning and proof in the …
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The teaching of English in secondary schools in Japan: From curriculum to the classroom
… as expressed in Japanese Ministry of Education curriculum guidelines and the reality of classroom practice. Using a combination of questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, classroom observations and curriculum and textbook analysis, this thesis seeks to explore that gap. While many of the …