Gerald Skoog

Texas Tech University | TTU · College of Education

The value and effectiveness of formative assessment in the classroom has gained an increasing amount of attention during the past decade, especially since the publication of seminal work by Black and Wiliam titled Assessment and Classroom Learning. Since that time, there has been a renewed interest in describing and evaluating teacher practices rel...

Efforts to eliminate or neutralize the coverage of evolution in high school biology textbooks in the United States have persisted with varying degrees of intensity and success since the 1920s. In particular, the coverage of human evolution has been impacted by these efforts. Evidence of the success of these efforts can be chronicled by the emphasis...

This study analyzed the science frameworks of 49 states and the District of Colombia to determine the emphasis given to evolution in these documents at the middle and secondary levels. These concepts were species evolve over time, speciation, diversity of life, descent with modification from common ancestry, evidence of evolution, natural selection...

This study explores how a middle school integrative learning environment influenced students' perspectives of curriculum, of schooling and of learning. Using social constructivism as a theoretical framework for the study and using an ethnographic interview procedure, 14 ninth-and tenth-grade students, who were purposively selected, were interviewed...

Examines the legal status of demands that "scientific creationism" be taught along with evolution in biology classes. (Author)

The inclusion of evolution as a topic in secondary school biology texts is examined in detail. The recent upsurge of mandates by the creationists is discussed with respect to current scientific knowledge and religious theology. Reasons for the exclusion of creationism in the biology curriculum are justified. (MA)

Evidence that textbooks both catalyze and reflect cultural and educational controversies within communities is documented convincingly by the minimal coverage of evolution and, more specifically, human evolution in high school biology textbooks published prior to the 1960s when the NSF-funded Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) developed th...

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus)--1969. Includes bibliographical references.