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Whitten, Leah; Sanders, Anthony – Educational Technology, 2013
While engaged in academic reading, a university provost converged on an idea to use a preferential approach to students' selection of college courses, similar to the recommendation systems used by "Netflix" and "Amazon." The result of this idea came to be known as "Degree Compass" and was implemented on the campus of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Course Selection (Students), Student Attitudes
Hyslop, Alisha; Hemmelman, Chris – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J3), 2012
According to the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, a "promising practice is any technique used that has a positive impact on students and has some data to support the claims made." Sources of this data range from experimental research to district- or state-level data analysis, but they must provide…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Vocational Education, Career Academies, Data Analysis
Wade, Patricia C. – 2002
In its eighth year of evaluating children's services in the state, the Children's Program Outcome Review Team (CPORT), under the direction of the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, continued to collect and analyze data to improve service delivery to children and families involved in state custody. Using the Quality Service Review…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Delivery Systems, Foster Care
Wade, Patricia C. – 2003
The Children's Program Outcome Review Team (CPORT), under the direction of the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, collects and analyzes data to improve service delivery to children and families involved in state custody. Using the Quality Service Review methodology, the Commission conducted 282 intensive case reviews on a random sample of…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Delivery Systems, Foster Care
Tennessee State Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Nashville. – 1973
Presented is the 5-year (1974-1979) plan of Tennessee by the State Division of Mental Retardation. Changes in philosophy and service delivery to mentally retarded (MR) persons are discussed in terms of definition, causes, classification, and training for employment. Ways of helping MR persons are described in relation to previous efforts and new…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Cooperative Programs, Exceptional Child Services, Institutions
Smith, Mark K., Ed.; And Others – 1977
Selected information is displayed in the form of charts, tables, and graphs about: (1) the State Student Incentive Grant (SSIG) program and other state-level student financial assistance programs; (2) the primary state agency or organization responsible for administering these programs; and (3) the general state characteristics relating to student…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Consumer Protection, Demography, Educational Finance
Brown, Edward B.; Dutton, Donnie – 1972
Three 2-week Adult Basic Education (ABE) Institutes were conducted in Tennessee during the summer of 1972. The three were an ABE Guidance and Counseling Institute, an ABE Materials and Teaching Institute, and an ABE Reading Institute. Each institute consisted of approximately 30 participants from the various regions of the state, and graduate…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Credit Courses, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, Nashville. – 1993
This is the third annual report on Tennessee's progress toward meeting statewide higher education goals delineated in the 1989 "Tennessee Challenge 2000" program. The report outlines the six goals, specific benchmarks for each goal, and the progress toward such goals and benchmarks accomplished over the last several years. The goals…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Benchmarking, College Admission, College Faculty