Download or read book Development of a Citizen Science Stream Monitoring Program for Western Pennsylvania High School Students and Effects on Student Learning written by Erin M. Janetski and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Implementation of a Stream Monitoring Program Into a High School Biology Curriculum and Its Effect on Student Environmental Literacy and Self efficacy written by Ernest Luedke and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Family and Community Partnerships written by Joyce L. Epstein and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
Download or read book The Influence of a Citizen Science Project written by Amy Lorenz and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizen science is a form of public participation in scientific research in which volunteers can engage with scientists in authentic research projects. Citizen science projects have been studied to understand participant and scientist motivations and outcomes, particularly in scientific literacy and attitudes. Recently, citizen science projects have become more common in classroom settings, but the few studies document these outcomes using robust methodology. The current study was developed to measure local high school students' understanding of science practices, attitudes toward science, and sense of place during a semester-long citizen science project in Yellowstone National Park using a mixed-methods design. Qualitative interviews revealed rich insight into students' sense of place, attitudes toward science, understanding of science practices and nature of science, and impressions of citizen science. Results indicated that students in this gateway community exhibited place attachment and an increased understanding of place after participating in a PhotoPoints project. Many attitudes shifted to reveal their enjoyment of science through this project. Students displayed an increased understanding of scientific process, but maintained many misconceptions about the nature of science. Students also revealed that their impressions of citizen science include the value of citizen perspective to scientific research. These findings supported the hypothesis that citizen science projects can influence students' scientific knowledge, sense of place, and attitudes. Additionally, students' impressions of citizen science suggest this practice may contribute to democratizing science in classrooms. Instead of considering the influence of citizen science on individual dimensions, this study suggests that citizen science can be used as holistic, place-based tool to connect these dimensions and develop the whole learner.
Download or read book Program Evaluation written by Pennsylvania. Department of Education and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Identifying and Supporting Productive STEM Programs in Out of School Settings written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more young people are learning about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in a wide variety of afterschool, summer, and informal programs. At the same time, there has been increasing awareness of the value of such programs in sparking, sustaining, and extending interest in and understanding of STEM. To help policy makers, funders and education leaders in both school and out-of-school settings make informed decisions about how to best leverage the educational and learning resources in their community, this report identifies features of productive STEM programs in out-of-school settings. Identifying and Supporting Productive STEM Programs in Out-of-School Settings draws from a wide range of research traditions to illustrate that interest in STEM and deep STEM learning develop across time and settings. The report provides guidance on how to evaluate and sustain programs. This report is a resource for local, state, and federal policy makers seeking to broaden access to multiple, high-quality STEM learning opportunities in their community.
Download or read book Conceptual Guidelines for School Health Programs in Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Bureau of Curriculum Services and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
Download or read book The Impact of a Citizen Science Program on Student Achievement and Motivation written by Suzanne E. Hiller and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizen science programs are joint efforts between hobbyists and professional scientists designed to collect data to support scientific research. Through these programs, biologists study species population trends while citizen scientists improve their content knowledge and science skills. The purpose of the present mixed method quasi-experimental study was to examine how involvement in a horseshoe crab citizen science intervention affected middle school student academic achievement and career motivation within a social cognitive career framework. Eighty six eighth graders from two schools were assigned into either a treatment or comparison group. Individuals from the treatment school received instruction from field experts on site and collected data for a biological researcher and a mock survey. The comparison group studied ecological niches within the same geographical area during class instruction; however, students did not conduct field research. All students responded to a series of surveys and content measures related to self-efficacy, interest, outcome expectations, choice goals, and academic achievement. Further, members of the treatment group participated in qualitative interviews to examine perceptions of their scientific observation skills and career influences. Findings supported the hypothesis that the treatment group would outperform the comparison group on all measures with the exception of choice goals. Path analysis results indicated that the interaction among self-efficacy, interest, content knowledge, and outcome expectations directly and indirectly influenced choice goals. In terms of gender, results confirmed the hypothesis that there would be no gender differences based on self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and choice goals although treatment males outperformed females on academic achievement. In addition, qualitative analysis corresponded with these findings by examining the influence this type of intervention had on student performance and career interests. The implications of this study are to highlight the benefits of collaborative opportunities with field experts during outdoor experiences on student academic and career path development.
Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
Download or read book A Qualitative Study of the Pennsylvania State Standards Impact on Professional Development Practices Toward Student Achievement written by Theresa M. Weidenbaugh and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined the influence Pennsylvania State Standards had on supervision and professional development practices in three separate public schools in Southeastern Pennsylvania. A total of 763 questionnaires were distributed to administrators and teachers in three Southeastern Pennsylvania school districts. The primary source of information was gathered from 87 teachers and 15 administrators who completed the questionnaires. Nineteen randomly selected participants responded to interview questions to glean additional information that focused on standards' impact on schools, the difficulties encountered by the implementation of standards, and how standardized tests influence students, parents, teachers, and administrators. Another source of data was the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) class summary data from 1999, 2002, and 2005 in reading and mathematics.
Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Download or read book Toward the Development of Survival Skills for Pennsylvania Youth written by Pennsylvania. State Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1976* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Science of Learning and Development written by Pamela Cantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child. The ideas presented provide researchers and educators with a rationale for focusing on the specific pathways and developmental patterns that may lead a specific child, with a specific family, school, and community, to prosper in school and in life. Expanding key published articles and expert commentary, the book explores a profound evolution in thinking that integrates findings from psychology with biology through sociology, education, law, and history with an emphasis on institutionalized inequities and disparate outcomes and how to address them. It points toward possible solutions through an understanding of and addressing the dynamic relations between a child and the contexts within which he or she lives, offering all researchers of human development and education a new way to understand and promote healthy development and learning for diverse, specific youth regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or history of adversity, challenge, or trauma. The book brings together scholars and practitioners from the biological/medical sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, educational science, and fields of law and social and educational policy. It provides an invaluable and unique resource for understanding the bases and status of the new science, and presents a roadmap for progress that will frame progress for at least the next decade and perhaps beyond.
