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Quenemoen, Rachel – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2008
This synthesis report provides a historical look back over the past 15 years of alternate assessment, from the early 1990s through the mid 2000s, as reported by state directors of special education on the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) state surveys, and augmented by other research and policy reports published by NCEO and related…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, State Surveys, Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment
Halls, W. D., Ed. – 1990
The global status of comparative education from the 1960s to the present is presented in three parts. Part 1 comprises a general review of the background to seven regional studies. The review provides a picture of the overall historical development; the modifications in the concept of comparative education that have occurred; the general…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Development
Craver, Kathleen W. – 1986
This paper examines the changing instructional role of the high school librarian from 1951 to 1984 to determine: (1) if the purported changes in the instructional role have been fictional or factual; (2) if the changes were those of substance or of form; (3) if the changes represented a process of growth and development in direct relationship to…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Guidelines, High Schools, Instructional Development
Kidd, Ross – 1982
Intended as a tool for non-formal education practitioners and researchers in identifying a range of relatively fugitive material, this bibliography includes 1,779 references to descriptive and analytical materials concerning the use of the performing arts as a medium for education and social change in the Third World. An introductory essay offers…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developing Nations, Educational Development, Folk Culture
Carnoy, Martin; Loop, Liza – 1986
This report on a symposium sponsored jointly by Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) and the Stanford University School of Education to foster understanding of the role of educational technology in educational systems and to identify needs for further research begins by summarizing international trends in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Development
Padua, Jorge – 1986
This report attempts to analyze the contributions of the educational system and job training programs to industrialization and technical progress in the Conubal zone of the Lower Balsas River of Mexico. The first of the study's three sections consists of two chapters that provide general background. Chapter 1, "Theories of Development and the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developing Nations, Developmental Programs, Economic Development
Teichler, Ulrich – 1988
This book analyses the debate on the structure of higher education in Germany, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and Australia during the past 3 decades. Structural patterns or models are systematized and the way in which different countries have solved their problems in organizing higher education are…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission (School), Comparative Education, Developed Nations
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Nelson, Randall B.; Erwin, T. Dary – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1986
Examines evolution of awareness regarding the importance of organizational characteristics on the success of computer assisted instruction (CAI) projects. A list of 12 organizational factors are described that institutions of higher education need to consider in planning CAI projects. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Adoption (Ideas), Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness
Shaeffer, Sheldon, Ed.; Nkinyangi, John A., Ed. – 1983
In much of the developing world, research environments are in many ways the same--burdened by the same weight of colonial dependency, underfinanced, and with products undervalued and underutilized. The primary purpose of this book is to analyze such environments for the sake of assessing whether and how they might be changed to enhance national…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Educational Change, Educational Development
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Taylor, Peter; McWilliam, Erica – British Educational Research Journal, 1995
Reviews the current literature concerning the dichotomy between providing quality higher education and meeting the needs of foreign students. Discusses both the philosophical and logistical aspects of the dilemma. Concedes that Eurocentric concepts may exacerbate the problem but questions how that insight can be effectively incorporated into…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Development
Camp, William G., Comp. – 1984
This document summarizes 161 research and development activities in agricultural education that were completed between July 1, 1982, and June 30, 1983. The projects, which are listed by state, represent research and development efforts undertaken at 34 institutions in 30 states and include 78 master's studies or theses, 37 doctoral dissertations,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Action Research, Agricultural Education, Classroom Research
Camp, William G., Comp. – 1985
This document summarizes 174 research and development activities in agricultural education that were completed between July 1, 1983, and June 30, 1984. The projects, which are listed by state, represent research and development efforts undertaken at 33 institutions in 30 states and include 86 master's studies or theses, 39 doctoral dissertations,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Action Research, Agricultural Education, Classroom Research