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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"national standards"”.
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Teacher Education: Assessing the National Standards for Beginning Physical Education Teachers
In recent years, standards, or performance expectations for learners, have been developed across multiple disciplines, allowing students, teachers, and administrators to be held accountable for student learning. In the area of physical education teacher education (PETE), the 2003 National Standards …
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Factors related to the integration of the national standards in the secondary school wind band
… tasks related to the creating and responding standards in the wind band curriculum and factors negatively or positively related to their integration. The researcher collected data via an online questionnaire pertaining to the integration of Standards and possible correlated factors suggested …
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Medication Administration In Family Child Care Homes: A Comparison Of State Regulations With National Standards
… and D.C. family child care home regulations with standards regarding medication administration in Caring for Our Children- National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs, 3rd edition (CFOC, 2011). A data collection instrument, which included seven …
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Industrial Technology Education Teachers Perceptions of National Standards for Technological Literacy in the State of Arizona
… technological literacy. To this end, the International Technology Education Association (ITEA) through the Technology for All Americans Project, has developed and promulgated the Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology. This effort is part of the ongoing …
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National Standards, Foundation Mathematics and Illinois Community Colleges: Textbooks and Faculty as the Keepers of Content
Habituation textbooks were not aligned with standards; while textbooks derived from NSF curriculum projects were substantially aligned. Conclusions, implications, recommendations for practice and research included: only one Illinois college used an AMATYC standards aligned textbook; implementation …
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The Influence of National Standards for Early Childhood Programs on Selected Rural Settings of the Education Service Centers in East Texas
… The main sources for the questions were the National Association for the Education of Young Children and Head Start. The study first directs attention to the common characteristics of national programs/standards, then discusses the level of implementation in local rural prekindergartens. The …
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Professional Development, Teacher Learning, and National Standards : a Mixed-Method Multiple-Case Study of the Professional Learning Experiences of Evangelical Christian School Teachers
… multi-case study approach. I used the National Staff Development Council’s (NSDC) Standards Assessment Inventory (SAI), which focused on 12 professional development standards: (a) learning communities, (b) leadership, (c) resources, (d) data-driven, (e) evaluation, (f) research-based, …
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The construction of a holistic, criterion-referenced sight-singing test for high school sopranos based on the voluntary national standards for music education
… for high school sopranos based on the voluntary national standards for music education. To accomplish the purpose of this study, four research questions were addressed: (1) Through what means can test items be selected that accurately measure sight-singing performance as delineated by the …
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Hiring Practices for Graphic Designers In Utah County, Utah
… purpose of this study was to show how hiring standards of evidence for graphic designers in Utah County compared with the national standards of evidence. The four major national standards of evidence for hiring graphic designers, identified by American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and …
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Affective-Domain Occurrences Reported by Undergraduate Non-Music-Major Students in a Keyboard-Centered Course Incorporating the Nine National Standards for Music Education and a Methodology Based on Constructivist Principles: Patterns That Might Suggest Hypotheses About Cause-and-Effect Relationships
… course that incorporates the nine National Standards for music education along with a methodology based on constructivist principles were collected. The problem of this study was to identify any patterns in those data that might suggest hypotheses about cause-and-effect …
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Talking To Learn: A Formative Experiment On Constructing Meaning Though Collaborative Classroom Interactions
<p>As a result of reform efforts, national standards and assessments set the stage for teaching and learning in many classrooms. This establishes a particular classroom environment and often leads to behaviorist instructional methods, such as recitation. Utilizing a formative experiment design, …
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Prehospital Emergency Medical Services Treatment Protocols: Aligning With National Best Practices
… result in deviation from both KBEMS and national standards of patient care. The markedly low compliance to state standards demonstrates the need for a mandated state-wide treatment protocol. When compared to national standards such as the American Heart Association, the Kentucky protocol …
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Mathematics Curriculum Revised to Align to Common Core State Standards
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the first set of national standards issued in the United States. Currently, all states are in the transition from implementing individual state standards to CCSS in ELA and mathematics. As the CCSS are being introduced and implemented into classrooms, …
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The Missing Founding Fathers: The Need to Teach the Role of the Antifederalists in the Adoption of the Bill of Rights
… despite the fact that accepted state and national standards encourage it. The thesis includes reviews of high school textbooks regarding the Antifederalists. It also includes a proposed lesson plan for teaching the Constitutional debate with the role of the Antifederalists given its …
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The match between current national assessment initiatives in reading and validated dimensions of authentic assessment
"The current emphasis on national standards and accountability in education is accompanied by a burgeoning concern for educating individuals who are able to competently perform complex tasks necessary for success in ""real world"" situations. The ability to perform flexibly in ""real world"" …
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Valuing bi- and multi-lingualism : a challenge to the monolingual framework for initial teacher training in secondary schools in England
… England. It challenges the emphasis, within the national Standards for initial teacher training, on English as an additional language (EAL) (TTA, 2002), rather than the full spectrum of bilingual pupils. The thesis postulates that the national Standards privilege a monolingual perspective. This …
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Leadership or management: an examination of the expectations on a Head Teacher in a serious weaknesses school
… leadership approaches, matching actions to the National Standards for Head Teachers, matching change management actions to models defined by the Audit Commission. Use is made of document analysis methodologies in particular verb use to explore these matches. Findings suggest that the concept of …
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Teacher Perceptions of the American School Counselor Association’s National Model in an Urban Setting
The development of the ASCA’s National Standards and Model has helped define the profession and provided a framework for school counselors to implement in designing a program. Despite recent clarity in the school counseling profession, barriers still exist, especially in urban settings. As …
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Green Neighborhood Standards from a Planning Perspective: A LEED for Neighborhood Deelopment (LEED-ND) Case Study
… based on its application as a broad set of national standards meant to encourage green neighborhood development. The main case study is a master planned community in semi-rural Paso Robles, California. Among other things, the study discovers problems related to the application of the rating …
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Application of lean management in the provisioning of textbooks to Eastern Cape public schools
… 1998, such as South African Schools Act (SASA), National Standards and Funding Norms (NSFM) and LSM Review Report in ECDoE (2003), that relate to provisioning of textbooks were also assessed. Thirdly, the effect of the current provisioning process at school level was also investigated.
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