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Download full textDean, Kenda Creasy; Yost, Paul R. – 1991
This document combines the findings of two projects for the purpose of making some overall observations about the state of religious youth work in the United States. The first project was a review of the literature on such programs. Research on the topic is rare, while a vast body of indirectly related research spans many disciplines and empirical…
Descriptors: Christianity, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Butler, Richard P.; And Others – 1984
The purpose of this report is to describe, evaluate, and validate a pilot assessment center (AC) established in the Center for Leadership and Personal Development at the U.S. Military Academy to develop cadets on job skills needed by newly commissioned officers in the U.S. Army. The AC programs employ a leadership evaluation development method…
Descriptors: Assessment Centers (Personnel), Higher Education, Leadership Qualities, Leadership Training
Anderson, Jennifer; And Others – 1984
The current status of research on experiential learning (primarily at the postsecondary level) is discussed, based in part on responses from a seven-member panel. Methodological considerations and proposed research agendas are also covered. Current research on experiential learning, which focuses on program design and impacts on the learner, falls…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Students, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Preston, Frederick R.; Schetlin, Eleanor M. – 1985
Although much has been written in support of a student development role for the student affairs professional, research documentation is lacking on the contributions made by student affairs staff to the development of students. A simple research methodology, which could be easily replicated on college campuses, to begin providing these missing data…
Descriptors: College Environment, Field Tests, Higher Education, Models
Gubbins, E. Jean, Ed.; Siegle, Del, Ed. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) Newsletter, 1998
These two newsletters of The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) present articles concerned with research on the education of gifted and talented students. The articles are: "NRC/GT's Suggestions: Evaluating Your Programs and Services" (E. Jean Gubbins); "Professional Development Practices in Gifted Education: Results of a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Gifted Disabled, Independent Study
Peer reviewedAckermann, Susan P. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1991
Describes a study of the effects of a summer bridge program on the academic, personal, and social development of underrepresented and low-income transfer students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Tracks 1988 entering Transfer Summer Program students for their first two quarters at UCLA. (DMM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged
Barefoot, Betsy O., Ed. – 1993
This document is a compendium of information from 34 colleges and universities on freshman seminar/student success courses and their outcomes and how institutions are evaluating and reporting on these programs. Freshman seminars or success courses are courses for entering students that aim to ease the student's transition to the college…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment
