Year In Review – Page 66 – Curriculum Research & Development Group

Cross Currents

Linda Menton, Noren Lush, and Suzanne Acord began work in 2004 on a bi-national, bilingual, Web-based digital resource for the Cross Currents project. The resource features Japan and the United States, and the way the two countries haveinfluenced each other…

Values for a Democratic Society

Pat Alvarez of the Social Studies Section teamed up with Tom Speitel, ThanTruc Nguyen, and Byron Inouye in the learning technology section to produce the Values for a Democratic Society DVD-ROM for use in character education classes in Hawai‘i public…

The Education Laboratory School

The Education Laboratory: A Hawai‘i New Century Public Charter School (ELS) is in its fourth year as a public charter school. It is unique among schools in many respects. ELS is operated by CRDG as a K–12 laboratory for researching,…

Educational Laboratory School’s Test Scores

A comparison of the Laboratory School’s Hawai‘i State Assessment test scores in reading and mathematics with the statewide average scores for School Year (SY) 2004 are shown in Figures 1–4. On the SAT in reading (Figure 1) and in mathematics…

Marketing and Publication Services

In 2004, two of CRDG’s sections, the Office of Dissemination and Outreach and the Educational Publications Center (EPC), merged to become Marketing and Publications Services (MaPS). From its beginnings as two creative teams that supported CRDG research projects, MaPS is…

CRDG Organization

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Donald B. Young, Dean CURRICULUM RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT GROUP Kathleen F. Berg, DirectorHelen O. Au, Assistant Director UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL Keoni Jeremiah, PrincipalTracy Teixeira, Dean of StudentsMiki Tomita, Dean of Curriculum and Instruction Three CRDG faculty members…

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

01. Overview: Helping students shift from arithmetic to algebra Many students experience learning difficulties in mathematics with the shift from arithmetic skills to algebraic ideas in middle and high school. Algebraic concepts and skills are the focus of instruction in…

CRDG Organization

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

UHM CRDG staff member published as second author in The MIT Press Journals

Congratulations to CRDG’s Dean Lodes as second author on a paper published with the VR team in Presence, The MIT Press Journals. This highlights the Hōkūle‘a as the focus of the VR work and links it to classroom usage. Read article: Kilo Hōkū—Experiencing…

COE CRDG Staff Member Receives $44K Research Award from UH Sea Grant College Program

UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) Assistant Specialist Joanna Philippoff was awarded $44K from the University of Hawai‛i Sea Grant College Program. As part of the two-year grant project, Philippoff and Co-Directors Heather Spalding of the Botany Department and Craig Nelson of…

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