Partners in Science Education

SHEA and JCAHO: partners in science.

In the 1980s, there were dramatic changes in the United States healthcare delivery system. All interested parties began to demand greater efficiency and more objective evidence of the quality of care. It became clear to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) that its historical primary focus on the structures and processes of care could assess the capability o...

Computer Science in Education

Computer science or computing science (sometimes abbreviated CS) is the learning of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their execution and application in computer systems. It is often described as the efficient study of algorithmic processes that produce, explain, and transform information. In this work, I use Data Mining algorithms from ...

Cognitive Science and Science Education

" The quality of science education, like mathematics education, is a pervasive concern in educational improvement efforts. The cognitive orientation to the teaching of subject matter provides the context for Carey" s discussion of science education. This orientation begins with the idea that to understand something, one must integrate it with already existing knowledge schemata. The paradox of ...

Partners in Caring and Community: service-learning in nursing education.

Discovering Indigenous Science: Implications for Science Education

Indigenous science relates to both the science knowledge of long-resident, usually oral culture peoples, as well as the science knowledge of all peoples who as participants in culture are affected by the worldview and relativist interests of their home communities. This article explores aspects of multicultural science and pedagogy and describes a rich and well-documented branch of indigenous s...