| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 211 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; 1. The Systems Thinking and Curriculum Innovation Project; Genesis; Initial Exposure to System Dynamics; Project Planning; The Staci Project: Design and Implementation; Project Objectives; Site Description and Design; Data Collection; Main and Ancillary Studies; Main Study: Modes of Implementation; The Self-Regulated Learning Substudy; The War and Revolution Substudy; The Organizational Substudy; Concluding Comments; 2. The Systems Thinking Network Project: STACIN; Genesis of the Network; Rationale |
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Launching the ProjectProject Resources; Teacher Support Activities; Provision for Expertise; Task Forces, Networking, and Collaboration; Time and Money; Research Activities; Research Designs; Multiple Methods; Teachers as Research Collaborators; 3. Project Components: Systems Thinking, Graphical User Interfaces, and Modeling; Systems Thinking; Educational Computing; Stella; 4. Observations, Issues, Cautions, and Lessons Learned; Implementation Issues; District Issues; Physical Resources; Curriculum Issues; Teacher Issues; Support Issues; Project Management and Research Issues |
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Project ManagementResearch Issues; Summary; 5. Technology and Patterns of Teacher Adaptation; Changing Role of the Teacher; The Systems Thinking Approach; Center for Technology in Education Survey; ACOT Findings; Conceptual Matrix for Technological Applications; The Proficiency Dimension; The Systems Applications Dimension; Patterns Across the Matrix; Selected Vignettes; Longest Participating Project Member; Department Chairman and Project Adviser; Applied Mathematics; Professional Development; Social Studies Amid Science and Mathematics; Integrated Curriculum |
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Discussion and Educational Implications6. Future Research and Policy Implications; Future Research; Policy Implications; Summary; Appendix A Evolving Case Studies; BUHS; Hillview Middle School; Menlo-Atherton High School; Mountain View High School; South San Francisco Unified School District; Westborough Middle School; South San Francisco High School; El Camino High School; Sunnyside High School; Appendix B Draft Model of a Computer-Based Curriculum Innovation; Student Learning Level; Classroom Processes Level; Organizational Change Level; Interlevel Linkages |
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Appendix C Past and Present Participating Teachers and Project DirectorsReferences; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
This book reports an attempt to introduce change in schools using a computer-based curriculum innovation for teaching higher-order thinking skills to middle and high school students. One of the volume's themes is the extraordinary complexity and difficulty of facilitating such change in schools. A corollary of that theme is the fact that patience must be an integral part of the strategy when promoting or studying change in schools. In reporting the activities during the early years of a technological innovation and research project in which the emphasis thus far has been primarily on |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Educational innovations -- United States
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Classroom environment -- United States
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Computer-assisted instruction -- United States
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Learning.
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Learning
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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Classroom environment
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Computer-assisted instruction
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Educational innovations
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Learning
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cline, Hugh F
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| ISBN |
9781135436179 |
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1135436177 |
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9781135436100 |
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113543610X |
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