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Thomas, Michael S. C.; Knowland, Victoria C. P.; Rogers, Cathy – World Bank, 2020
This report considers the science of adult literacy acquisition, with the goal of identifying principles that may improve the effectiveness of adult literacy programs. We define literacy as a continuum, from emerging literacy, through improving literacy, to fluent literacy and we outline the factors that influence how far along that continuum an…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Program Effectiveness, Skill Development
Miller, Carla K.; Kristeller, Jean L.; Headings, Amy; Nagaraja, Haikady – Health Education & Behavior, 2014
Mindful eating may be an effective intervention for increasing awareness of hunger and satiety cues, improving eating regulation and dietary patterns, reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety, and promoting weight loss. Diabetes self-management education (DSME), which addresses knowledge, self-efficacy, and outcome expectations for improving…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Dietetics, Intervention, Self Management
Jones Harden, Brenda; Chazan-Cohen, Rachel; Raikes, Helen; Vogel, Cheri – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
Home visitation has emerged as a key strategy for promoting child and family well-being in the current policy context. This article examines the effectiveness of the Early Head Start (EHS) home-based program for children and families at the end of the program and 2 years later, with a particular focus on the role of program implementation in the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Home Visits, Family Programs
Yap, Margaret; Holmes, Mark Robert; Hannan, Charity-Ann; Cukier, Wendy – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between employees' perceptions of diversity training (DT) existence and effectiveness with organizational commitment (OC), and career satisfaction (CS). Design/methodology/approach: The analyses in this paper utilize survey data collected between 2006 and 2007 from over 11,000…
Descriptors: Employees, Job Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Investigations
Hodges, Donald A.; Luehrsen, Mary – Arts Education Policy Review, 2010
"Sounds of Learning: The Impact of Music Education" is a research program designed to allow researchers to examine the roles of music education in the lives of school-aged children to expand the understanding of music's role in a quality education. The NAMM Foundation, the sponsoring organization, has provided more than $1,000,000 to fund research…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Research Projects, Educational Quality
Shah, Hardik; Gopal, Raj – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: With rapid industrialization and population growth in the urban and rural areas in India, the demand for public transport has risen sharply. In the fast changing scenario in the public transit sector, the role of a bus depot manager (DM) has also undergone substantial transformation. This paper aims to identify and gauge the…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Job Training, Trainers, Foreign Countries
Mathew, David – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2011
Barely 30 years on from the advent of distance learning as we recognise it today, it has already become uncommon for a learner to embark on a programme of education that does not involve frequent access to the Internet; but if a course does not revolve around the Internet, is it in any way inferior and is the learner disadvantaged? Two of the…
Descriptors: Internet, Distance Education, Role Perception, Technology Uses in Education
Ryles, Ruby; Bell, Edward – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2009
Seventy-three children with visual impairments aged 2-10 and their parents participated in a project that examined the children's interest in and exploration of tactile graphics. The parents reported that the children's interest in and conceptual understanding of the project's tactile workbook were high and that the children explored the…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Parent Participation, Workbooks, Tactile Adaptation
Howard, Kimberly S.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne – Future of Children, 2009
Kimberly Howard and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn examine home visiting, an increasingly popular method for delivering services for families, as a strategy for preventing child abuse and neglect. They focus on early interventions because infants are at greater risk for child abuse and neglect than are older children. In their article, Howard and Brooks-Gunn…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Parenting Styles, Home Visits, Child Rearing
Bell, Courtney A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2009
Reformers suggest that parental choice will improve equity by making it possible for parents to select better schools for their children. A key assumption behind this claim is that parents choose from a set of schools that range in quality. Data from this longitudinal interview study suggest this assumption may be false. In one Midwestern city,…
Descriptors: Social Class, School Choice, School Restructuring, Program Effectiveness
Meager, Nigel – International Journal of Training and Development, 2009
There is persistent evidence over several decades that the UK lags behind its international competitors in terms of the skills and qualifications of its workforce, with a detrimental impact on overall economic performance. The most recent attempt by the UK government to address this includes a new strategy aimed at increasing the degree of…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Skill Development, Training, Educational Policy
Egan, Toby Marshall; Song, Zhaoli – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
Results from a pretest-posttest randomized field experiment study with a control group comparing the impact of high- and low-level-facilitated mentoring programs on new employees' performance and perceptions about their jobs and organization were reported in this paper. Results indicated increases in job satisfaction, organizational commitment,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Mentors, Job Satisfaction, Program Effectiveness
John, Karen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2008
Leadership mentoring is a central component of the National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL), which is designed to develop robust, creative and courageous children's centre leaders. Mentoring provides a safe, supportive and confidential space in which leaders can discuss the challenges of leading their centres.…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Mentors, Role Perception, Leadership Effectiveness
Youngcourt, Satoris S.; Leiva, Pedro I.; Jones, Robert G. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2007
Performance appraisals have traditionally been directed at individuals, serving either an administrative or developmental purpose. They may serve a role definition purpose as well. This study sought to identify and more broadly define the purposes of performance appraisals to include this role definition purpose. Furthermore, this study examined…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Job Satisfaction, Personnel Evaluation, Role Perception
Johnson, Elaine; Rothstein, Fran; Gajdosik, Jennifer – New Directions for Youth Development, 2004
This chapter examines the role of a national network of local and regional intermediary organizations in initiating and sustaining community-based youth worker professional development systems. This approach is instructive for other intermediaries in establishing training standards, assessing impact, providing organizational supports for youth…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Professional Development, Role Perception, Child Development
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