A nationally representative sample of approximately 7,900 eighth-grade students from about 260 public and private schools participated in the 2008 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) arts assessment. Approximately one-half of these students were assessed in music, and the other half were assessed in visual arts.
Major findings include:
* Average responding scores in both music and visual arts were higher for White and Asian/Pacific Islander students than Black and Hispanic students. The pattern was also the same for the visual arts creating task scores.
* Female students had higher average responding scores in both music and visual arts than male students. Female students also had a higher average creating task score in visual arts.
• Thirty-three percent of eighth-graders reported that their teachers asked them to write down music at least once a month in class; this figure has increased by seven percent since 1997, when only 26 percent of students reported the same.
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Full report:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/main2008/2009488.asp
Examining Independent Study High Schools in California
This examination of California's independent study high schools--alternative schools in which 75 percent or more of students in grades 9–12 are enrolled in full-time independent study--describes enrollment trends since 2001/02 and the number and characteristics of schools and students as well as teacher qualifications in 2006/07.
Full report:
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/regions/west/pdf/REL_2009074.pdf
Two New Science Education Resources
1. There’s a new place where middle school students, teachers and parents can have fun, solve CSI-like mysteries and learn more about the amazing world of materials.
“City of Materials (www.cityofmaterials.com) is an interactive online environment where you can explore the materials that are part of our everyday lives,” said Jan Edwards, leader of the K-12 Education Committee of ASM International, the materials information society.
Developed by ASM volunteers representing the materials science and engineering community, along with the participation of pre-college teachers and graduate students, City of Materials is technology rich, web based, visual and interactive.
The goal is for students to connect with Materials Science and Engineering both as a real world engineering discipline and as a possible career.
The cornerstone of the website is the City Tour game, available free to all visitors. “It’s all about making materials science and engineering more interesting and accessible while exposing younger students to important scientific and engineering processes,” Edwards said.
What to See in the City: Tour the city to see how materials are used in everyday living. Along the way, you can help solve a few cases and learn about the latest advances.
Mayor Charpy’s House: Make yourself at home in the kitchen, just don’t leave the water running in the sink for too long. Simple and safe experiments to try in your own kitchen are available.
Austen Detective Agency: We need a new Private Investigator! Here’s your opportunity to solve the latest materials mystery.
CSI Lab: Sift through the evidence to crack the case. Tour the lab and you’ll find all of the equipment you need to put materials to the test.
“Materials are the stuff the world is made of, from spacecraft to artificial hearts,” Edwards said. “Through City of Materials, we hope to intrigue young people about the realities and possibilities of metals, ceramics, composites, electronic materials, polymers, and textiles.”
2. “What makes thunder?” “Why do frogs jump?” “What are we made of?”
Those are the sorts of questions that curious children often spring on unsuspecting schoolteachers -- and that their teachers sometimes struggle to answer.
To make teachers’ jobs a little easier, Florida State University researchers have created GEOSET http://www.geoset.fsu.edu/ -- short for “Global Educational Outreach for Science, Engineering and Technology.” Employing a broad range of interactive media, GEOSET provides short educational segments on topics ranging from algebra to penicillin to the origins of the universe. From anywhere in the world, teachers can access them via the Internet to increase their understanding of various scientific or mathematical principles -- or even share the segments directly with their students.
“Teachers can utilize a tremendous database of knowledge and then pick and choose what they wish to use in their lesson plans,” said Harold Kroto, Florida State’s Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry and a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996. “Meanwhile, there are a million people out there with a passion for some specific topic and the altruistic desire to make that expertise available to the world. GEOSET lets them do so.”
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