Evaluation of the implementation of energy education curricula in selected classrooms

Thesis/Dissertation · Wed Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:6465456

Landes, N M

This study investigates the implementation of particular energy-education curriculum materials by Michigan teachers in grades K-8 who attended an energy-education inservice workshop. The study is designed to describe the inservice workshop project upon which the study is based, assess the relationship between selected workshop factors and teacher characteristics and the amount of time teachers reported teaching about energy following and inservice workshop, and determine factors which may encourage or limit the implementation of energy education in these teachers' classrooms. Data were collected through written questionnaires both before and after the inservice workshops, and through indepth interviews conducted with a sub sample of teachers. Major findings were: (1) about one-half of the teachers who responded had included energy education in their curriculum; (2) teachers tended to include energy education if they felt strongly enough that energy was an important topic about which their students needed to learn; (3) teachers found time to be the most-limiting factor in including energy education in the curriculum, (4)teachers felt limited support for including energy topics from building principals and districts, (5) teachers tended to view energy education as part of science even when provided with multidisciplinary guides, and (6) only the previous number of energy lessons taught and whether or not a teacher had attended a previous energy workshop showed any statistical relatonship to the time spent teaching about energy following the workshop.

• OSTI ID: 6465456
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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