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Social and Emotional Learning in Action: Creating Systemic Change in Schools
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Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E., Ed.; Strambler, Michael J., Ed.; Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly A., Ed. – Guilford Press, 2023
Just because a school has adopted a social and emotional learning (SEL) program does not mean it will work. This book explores the conditions needed to implement, strengthen, and sustain effective SEL, and identifies paths that schools, districts, and states have taken to create those conditions. Major themes include equity of access to…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Program Implementation, Equal Education, Educational Quality
The Goodlad Study: A Challenge for Counselors.
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Dobson, Judith E.; Dobson, Russell L. – School Counselor, 1985
Identifies six areas in two different studies (The Goodlad Study and the study by the National Commission on Excellence in Education) relating directly to school counselors' roles and functions. Presents contrasts between the two studies. Suggests implications for counselors from Goodlad's findings. (BH)
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, School Counselors
Would You Major in Psychology Again?
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Lunneborg, Patricia W.; Wilson, Vicki M. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
Of the 797 psychology baccalaureates who were asked if they would major in psychology again if they had it to do all over, 70 percent said that they would. Study results are discussed in terms of how academic advising of psychology majors can be improved. (RM)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Attitudes, Educational Improvement
The National Commission Reports: A Comparison of Proposed and Actual Changes in High Schools.
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Rutherford, William L.; Huling-Austin, Leslie – Journal of Staff Development, 1984
Types of changes being recommended by various national educational reports were compared with actual changes reported in a national sample of high schools. Implications for staff developers are offered. (DF)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Faculty Development
College Outcomes and Assessment: A Select Bibliography from the ERIC Database. Editions 1-4 (Covering 461 Items Dated 1977-1991).
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education, Washington, DC. – 1988
This annual bibliography presents the abstracts, index terms, and descriptive bibliographic information for selected books, journal articles, and other documents in subject areas concerning college outcomes and assessment. Citations are listed alphabetically by author. The coverage and size of the four editions combined here are as follows: (1)…
Descriptors: Abstracts, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Counseling and Educational Excellence: A Response to "A Nation at Risk". In Brief: An Information Digest from ERIC/CAPS.
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Walz, Garry R. – 1984
This digest focuses on the contributions counselors can make to help schools achieve educational excellence and enhance both the quantity and quality of student learning. (BH)
Descriptors: Career Planning, Cognitive Style, Comprehensive Guidance, Counselor Role
The Drive for "Educational Excellence": Implications for the Mental Health of Children.
Bardon, Jack I. – 1985
Recent critiques of education in the United States have all too often been simplistic in their solutions and punitive in tone. American education has historically been concerned with providing equality of opportunity and accomodating individual and group differences, yet calls for excellence often devalue these fundamental elements of democracy.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Child Welfare, Children, Educational Change
Perception of Business and Industry: Basic Skills Necessary for Successful Employment Compared to Competencies of Entry Level Employees.
Junge, Denis A.; And Others – 1983
This study was conducted to assess business and industry's perceptions of the basic skills needed for entry-level successful employment. It also assessed business and industry's perceptions of the competencies that entry-level employees now have. Information was gathered via a basic skills questionnaire that was mailed to the personnel directors…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Business Communication, Communication (Thought Transfer), Education Work Relationship