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This site offers the Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) online, a self-assessment of instructional goals for college and university instructors. The purpose of the TGI is threefold: to help teachers become more aware of what they want to accomplish in individual courses; to help faculty locate classroom assessment techniques that they can adapt and use to assess how well they are achieving their teaching ... Full description.
Grade level: Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Software
Subject: Educational theory and practice
 
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This University of Colorado School of Education site provides references for an extensive set of instructional design models. Articles and links are grouped by topic and author. Topics include anchored instruction, behaviorism, cognitivism, discovery learning, instructional systems design, problem-based learning and role playing. Full description.
Grade level: Middle (6-8), High (9-12), College (13-14), College (15-16)
Resource type: Index / Bibliography, Journal article, Report, Educational portal
Subject: Educational theory and practice
 
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This site is the homepage of Dr. David N. Rapp, a professor of Learning Sciences and Psychology at Northwestern University . His research focuses on reader-guided processes of multimedia comprehension, processes of language and memory, the knowledge, beliefs, and expectations that individuals use to guide their text comprehension, and how those processes operate during complex multimedia events that ... Full description.
Grade level: Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Index / Bibliography
Subject: Educational theory and practice
 
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This website provides an explanation of Bloom's Taxonomy for the three domains of learning: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. The cognitive domain involves knowledge and the development of intellectual skills, the affective domain deals with emotion, and the psychomotor domain includes physical movement, coordination, and use of motor-skills. This site presents a compilation of Bloom's Taxonomy ... Full description.
Grade level: Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Assessment / Evaluation, Index / Bibliography, Abstract / Summary
Subject: Educational theory and practice
 
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This site is part of a step-by-step process which explores the design elements of a web lesson. The aim of this essay is to make teachers aware of the considerations of learning goals that will influence the shape of their course, and to emphasize that the key to developing effective technology-based learning activities is to start with clear goals about desired outcomes. The site also provides a ... Full description.
Grade level: Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Tutorial
Subject: Educational theory and practice
 
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This site provides a comprehensive variety of Flash and QuickTime animations dealing with space and planetary science, oceanography, hydrology, and geology. These animations are found on Exploring Earth, a website that supports the McDougall Little textbook Earth Science. Users can stop, play, fast forward and rewind the animations at any time to stress important points. Full description.
Grade level: High (9-12), College (13-14), College (15-16)
Resource type: Illustration - scientific
Subject: Educational theory and practice
 
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This is the online version of the book "Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A Guide for Teaching and Learning." Published by the National Academies Press, the book is presented complete with text and images, is browseable in a variety of ways, and has a PDF version for easy printing. A hardcopy version is also available for purchase from the site. Full description.
Grade level: Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Book - text
Subject: Educational theory and practice
 
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This site is the homepage for the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. It provides a multitude of resources for responding effectively to new issues in student assessment. The ideas and strategies are focused on the practical educational issues surrounding the purposes and design of student assessment and reporting, in particular the way in which assessment ... Full description.
Grade level: Graduate / Professional
Resource type: Presentation / Demo, Tutorial, Ref. material, Educational portal
Subject: Educational theory and practice
 
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This site presents a brief definition of scaffolding and example of its usefulness in media education. Published by the Media Awareness Network, the summary was adapted from a posting to their listserv by educator Bakari Chavanu. He defines scaffolding as developing a unit of study through a set sequence of four steps, which are listed. He also provides an example of how the steps of scaffolding would ... Full description.
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Resource type: Abstract / Summary
Subject: Educational theory and practice
 
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Problem-based learning is an educational approach that organizes curriculum and instruction around carefully crafted "ill-structured" problems. Students gather and apply knowledge from multiple disciplines in their quest for solutions. Guided by teachers acting as cognitive coaches, they develop critical thinking, problem solving, and collaborative skills as they identify problems, formulate hypotheses, ... Full description.
Grade level: Primary (K-2), Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8), High (9-12), College (13-14), College (15-16)
Resource type: Guide for instructor, Tutorial, Report
Subject: Educational theory and practice
 
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