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Ferrara, Victoria M. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2010
Portfolio assessment is a valid and reliable method to assess experiential learning. Developing a fully online portfolio assessment program is neither easy nor inexpensive. The institution seeking to take its portfolio assessment program online must make a commitment to its students by offering the technologies most suited to meet students' needs.…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Experiential Learning, Program Effectiveness
Coash, Vicki; Watkins, Karen – National Middle School Association (NJ3), 2005
At Santa Maria Middle School in southwest Phoenix, Arizona, teachers have decided to maintain their relationships with their students by looping through sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Here, they describe the results of the first three years of the program, discussing the development of their team's priorities and the strategies they embraced…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods, Looping (Teachers), Teacher Student Relationship
Peterman, Francine, Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2005
This book presents an argument for, and invites, critical examination of teacher preparation and assessment practices--in light of both the complexity and demands of urban settings and the theories of learning and learning to teach that guide teacher education practices. This dynamic approach distinguishes the authors' stance on urban teacher…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Learning Theories, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools
Community Action Southwest, Waynesburg, PA. – 1994
A special demonstration project was conducted to provide individualized basic/workplace skills instruction to 36 high school dropouts with special needs or learning problems and thereby enable them to earn a high school diploma. Because of time constraints, services were provided to only eight students. Individual Learning Plans (ILPs) were…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs