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Champion, Robby – Learning Professional, 2017
While designs of professional learning have expanded exponentially beyond the required-attendance inservice day workshop model, infusing meaningful data into daily decisions and conversations has not gained as much traction. Leaders of professional learning are increasingly coming under pressure to demonstrate that evidence is not an anathema in…
Descriptors: Data, Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making, Program Evaluation
Sugarman, Julie – Migration Policy Institute, 2018
In recent years, education data have become both more easily accessible and more important than ever to decisions about K-12 policies and practice. Under the "Every Student Succeeds Act" (ESSA), states are required to publish data on how students, including English Learners (ELs), are performing in areas such as reading, math, and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Student Characteristics
James Irvine Foundation, 2015
The Exploring Engagement Fund provides risk capital for arts nonprofits to experiment with innovative ideas about how to engage diverse Californians. In order to understand the variety of Californians engaged in arts experiences, this guide is intended to support current and future Fund grantees in collecting participant information. Exploring…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Private Financial Support, Participant Characteristics, Low Income Groups
New England Board of Higher Education, 2018
Surveys of New England employers, college academic officers, and graduates find that many consider today's college graduates inadequately prepared for the world of work. In 2017, the New England Board of Higher Education convened the Commission on Higher Education & Employability, under the leadership of Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo.…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Career Readiness
Bontrager, Bob; Ingersoll, Doris; Ingersoll, Ronald – American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2012
As external forces demand change in the delivery of postsecondary education and institutions seek to take advantage of new opportunities, the potential for achieving higher levels of student and institutional success is vast. New technologies, communication tools, data use, and organizational constructs present key factors in improving the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment Management, Educational Change, Strategic Planning
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Sugai, George – Psychology in the Schools, 2007
The articles in this special Practitioner's Edition of "Psychology in the Schools" share the application of sound educational and behavioral practices in real school and classroom contexts. Given this emphasis in these articles on the applied use of behavioral practices, the purpose of this brief commentary is to highlight and comment on some of…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Behavioral Science Research, Journal Articles, Intellectual History
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Joedodibroto, Roehjati; Martono, Andrini – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1987
Specific conditions and information needs of the engineer in Indonesia are described. Much foreign input is applied in development projects resulting in a continuous need for transfer of technology. Most libraries and information services are not adequately equipped to provide for the engineer's information needs. Steps are being taken to help…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineers, Higher Education, Information Needs
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Lewis, Karron G. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1991
There are many ways to collect information about college teaching. Many are quick, easy, and unintrusive, and are valuable supplements to the standard source of information, student ratings. A matrix of data needs and corresponding sources of course, instructor, and student information helps refine the information gathering process. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Data Collection, Feedback, Higher Education
Lawson, David M. – Currents, 1999
In college and university fundraising, mergers and initial public offerings can create donor-deadlines windows of opportunity during which prospective donors can make tax-favored major gifts. Development officers need to monitor their prospects' holdings for these deadlines. Categories of donor prospects to consider and indicators to watch are…
Descriptors: College Administration, Donors, Economic Climate, Fund Raising
Shim, Wonsik "Jeff"; McClure, Charles R.; Fraser, Bruce T.; Bertot, John Carlo – 2001
This manual provides a beginning approach for research libraries to better describe the use and users of their networked services. The manual also aims to increase the visibility and importance of developing such statistics and measures. Specific objectives are: to identify selected key statistics and measures that can describe use and users of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Utilization, Internet
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Carter, Greg Lee – Teaching Sociology, 1989
Presents a classroom technique for demonstrating the post-factum interpretation problem. Describes the various ways that students interpreted data concerning the percentage of men and women in traditionally female occupations. Discusses the various uses of this technique in both introductory and research classes. (KO)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Data Interpretation, Information Utilization, Learning Strategies
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Borovansky, Vladimir T. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1987
Traditionally engineers are not heaviest users of information resources. This can be traced to lack of emphasis on information sources in engineering education. Failure to use available knowledge leads to reinventing the wheel and losing the race for technological superiority. Few U.S. universities offer formal courses in information resources in…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Engineering Education, Engineers, Higher Education
Boniface, Russell; Protheroe, Nancy – 2002
Class-size reduction (CSR) has been a complex and contentious issue for the last quarter century. Although the small-class concept was adopted because it appealed to common sense, research over time has revealed a mix of confounding variables, instead of a definitive conclusion. Some CSR efforts, such as Tennessee's Project STAR and Wisconsin's…
Descriptors: Class Size, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Utilization
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MacRoberts, Michael H.; MacRoberts, Barbara R. – Social Studies of Science, 1986
Provides a method of classifying and exemplifying the types of discrepancies which are commonly found after comparisons of the content of scientific papers with their bibliographies. Lists and explains some of the major discrepancies and offers strategies for dealing with the problems. (ML)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Citations (References), Communications, Information Services
Finkelstein, Leonard B.; Crabbe, Anne B. – American School Board Journal, 1985
A seven-step program is described for allowing students to try their hand at solving problems of the future. Goals of the program are to encourage students to think more creatively, increase their research and communication skills, and develop problem solving skills. (TE)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Information Seeking
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