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Sirinides, Philip; Fink, Ryan – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2014
Faced with rising demand for information about early childhood programs, states need to find tools and strategies to monitor the progress of and to identify high-quality early childhood programs. In response, REL Mid-Atlantic convened a regional workgroup for state personnel who work with the systems containing early childhood data. The workgroup…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices, Effective Schools Research
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Volkwein, J. Fredericks – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
Despite their apparent popularity among those seeking degrees and credentials, today's colleges and universities face several interrelated public criticisms and concerns. When these competing concerns about student success, productivity, cost, and educational effectiveness all collide at the campus level, they create an array of campus tensions…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Criticism, Public Relations, Stakeholders
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Bureau of Planning and Evaluation. – 1977
This booklet is intended to aid Pennsylvania school officials in developing a five-year long-range plan for their districts, as mandated by the Pennsylvania State Board of Education. The booklet is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Guidelines and Instructions," discusses the long-range planning process and explains how the forms in Part 2…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Models
Somerton-Fair, M. Ellen; And Others – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1978
The Pennsylvania Training Model's Educational Planning System for teaching the severely/profoundly handicapped is described. (Author)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Models
McGovern, E. Gaye – 1975
This school district guide examines the why of long-range planning, the relationship between long-range planning and educational change, the long-range planning process, community involvement in planning, the communicating of educational quality assessment and other needs assessment results with the public, needs assessment, prioritizing district…
Descriptors: Administrators, Community Involvement, Community Relations, Curriculum Development
Cooley, William W.; And Others – 1992
A state educational indicator system being developed by the Pennsylvania Educational Policy Studies (PEPS) project at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) is described. The extensive database that has been established as part of the PEPS project includes thousands of variables that are descriptive of the 500 Pennsylvania school districts.…
Descriptors: Classification, Data Analysis, Databases, Educational Change
Smutz, Wayne D.; And Others – 1981
The Practice Audit Model, a direct outgrowth of the Pennsylvania Pharmacists' Professional Development Program, provides a systematic framework in which to assess occupational and professional practitioners' continuing education needs and develop programs to meet those needs. The ultimate objective of the Practice Audit Model is to assist…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Planning, Educational Research
Paull, Barbara I. – 1980
This guidebook was developed to aid mothers who are attending school or training programs and also have preschool or school-age children at home, to find new approaches to their complicated life situations. Based on the experiences of 215 women in Allegheny County Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), the booklet describes some of the problems they faced as…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Career Choice, Child Caregivers
Askov, Eunice N.; Johnston, Jerome; Petty, Leslie I.; Young, Shannon J. – 2003
This monograph examines benefits, challenges, and methods of expanding access to adult literacy with online distance education (ODE). The following are among the topics discussed: (1) reasons for considering ODE (new technologies and delivery systems in education; ODE in higher education, business training, and adult basic education; state-level…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy