PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a school-based intervention program for middle school adolescent girls with depression. METHODS The study was a pretest-posttest repeated-measure design with a nonequivalent control group. Fifty eight students with depressive symptoms were recruited from two middle schools in Seoul, Korea. The data were collected from the interv...

Here are some examples of fundamental issues that arise in high school mathematics. Students are puzzled by the assertion .9 = 1. After giving an excellent presentation1 concerning her extensions to the logic unit in a geometry course, Teacher A asked, ‘How do I respond when a student asks if it is true that the sum of the angles of a triangle is 180◦’? A freshman complains, I learned in primar...

Digital skills are a critical part of any national digital strategy to promote economic and social development and are profoundly changing educational requirements and modes of delivery in many countries around the world. Yet many nations have developed strategies which focus on promoting the development of technological infrastructure without considering the skills needed to use, build and man...

LESSONS AND EXERCISES IN POLITE LITERATURE": THE PEDAGOGY AND LITERATURE CIRRICULUM OF MOTHER COLUMBA CARROLL, A SISTER OF CHARITY OF NAZARETH Anna M. Powell November 14,2012 This study will examine Nazareth Academy, a prestigious private female academy, and Mother Columba Carroll's, SCN pedagogy and literature curriculum. The first half of the study will create a snapshot of the Academy from 1...

In the distant education, the learning of internet curriculum is widespread concerned by people. In order to promote internet curriculum learning, completing task cooperatively is the effective learning manner. In this article, writer expounds the concept of collaborative learning, and explains the implementing structural flow diagram of collaborative learning on internet curriculum. At last, w...

This paper proposes the use of activity theory and multi-level activity systems as a framework to analyse the effectiveness of ICT integration in Singapore secondary school classrooms. Three levels of activity systems are developed to study the effectiveness of ICT integration at the classroom: the classroom activity system, the department activity system and the school activity system. A multi...

The University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing introduced evidence-based practice (EBP) into the freshman-level curriculum this year. This article describes the reasons behind this decision, the development of the curriculum, the specific EBP content, and the student assignments. The introduction of EBP into the first-level nursing curriculum has proven to be successful; consideration is even b...

Many school health promotion curricula address a single health behavior, without paying attention to potential learning effects in associated behavioral domains. We developed an innovative curriculum about smoking and safe sex that also focused on promoting students' transfer of knowledge, skills and attitudes to other domains. In a quasi-experimental study involving 1107 students (Grades 7 and...

Objective The first course of the medical curriculum at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, From the Person to the Professional: Challenges, Privileges and Responsibilities, provides an innovative early clinical immersion. The course content specific to the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) curriculum was developed using the New York State Emergency Medical Technician curriculum. S...