This study aims to understand the factors that led low performance in proficiency and scientific mathematical literacy basic education, according results of last PISA, which statistically analyzes OECD countries Latin America Brazil is a part. As methodology adopted, literature, books, articles, statistical data from six years were analyzed, this exposed problem cannot be solved short or medium...

Between 1985 and 1988, the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Chapter 1 Technical Assistance Center developed, refined, and disseminated a research-based process for improving local compensatory education programs. Known as the Chapter 1 Improvement Process (CHIP), the effort combined knowledge from five research areas into a year-long, cross-district interactive program improvement effo...

OBJECTIVES This article reviews and critically evaluates historical and contemporary research on simulation-based medical education (SBME). It also presents and discusses 12 features and best practices of SBME that teachers should know in order to use medical simulation technology to maximum educational benefit. METHODS This qualitative synthesis of SBME research and scholarship was carried o...

Dewey’s conception of scientific explanation, which has been neglected by both philosophers of science and philosophers of education, facilitates overcoming the seeming divide between teaching a highly technical and specialized subject matter and encouraging students to successfully engage in the experience of being philosopher-scientists. By analyzing Dewey’s philosophy of science as it pertai...

AUTHOR Horowitz, Frances D. TITLE Kansas Center for Research in Early Childhood Education Annual Report, FY 1973. INSTITUTION Kansas Univ., Lawrence. Kansas Center for Research in Early Childhood Education. SPONS AGENCY National Coordination Center for Early Childhood Education, St. Ann, Mo.; National Inst. of Education (DHEW) , Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 30 Nov 73 CONTRACT NE-C-00-3-0104; OBC-3...