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Download full textPatton, Ruth Volz, Ed.; Lawrence, Marianne, Ed. – 1985
These 10 papers focus on the key to excellence in vocational education in light of teacher assessment and effective assessment systems, challenges to testing students and teachers and the legal implications, basic and employability skills, and the need for vocational teacher technological update strategies. "Introduction and Colloquium…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competence, Employment Potential, Faculty Development
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. – 1991
This paper provides a transcript of a videotaped roundtable discussion on learning disabilities among people in adult literacy programs in Canada. Panelists discussed several definitions of learning disabilities, such as processing difficulties, physical difficulties, and receptive difficulties. They debated the usefulness of labeling persons with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Educational Improvement
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. – 1991
This paper provides a transcript of a videotaped roundtable discussion on recognition for learning in adult literacy programs in Canada. Participants discussed the need to provide credentials for learners who have acquired various "chunks" of learning. Recognition was thought to be a motivator for adults even if they did not need the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Articulation (Education)
Van Kollenburg, Susan E., Ed. – 1996
This collection presents 68 papers or summaries presented at a 1996 conference on self-study and institutional improvement for institutions of higher education. Papers are grouped in the following 10 chapters (with sample topics in parentheses): (1) "Integrity and Accreditation: Current Issues" (intercollegiate athletics, nontraditional students,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies
Pickard, C. Glenn, Jr., Ed.; Watkins, Julia D., Ed. – 1977
The conference reported here was held for nurse faculty and physicians from twenty-five family nurse practitioner (FNP) programs based in twenty-one states to provide the participants with an opportunity to consider their common curriculum problems and successes in FNP education. The first half of this booklet contains five paper presentations…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Clinical Experience, Conference Reports
Palfreeman, Annabel, Ed. – 1996
These proceedings contain the following papers: "Linking Industry Training with Language and Literacy" (Cassandra Parkinson); "Numeracy: Essential and a Priority? An ANT's (Adult Numeracy Teacher's) Journey" (Dave Tout); "Teaching, Learning and Assessment: An Essential Symbiosis" (David Clarke); "The Politics of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Coordination
App, Anne H. – 1991
This publication summarizes presentations and discussions from a conference that addressed specific issues in the National Assessment of Vocational Education and in the 1990 Perkins Act that mandated the assessment. Introductory materials include a summary of consensus issues from the conference (David Boesel), welcoming remarks (Bruno Manno), and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Accountability, Correctional Education
App, Anne H., Comp. – 1991
This collection of 22 papers is organized by the five conference topics. "Part 1: Effects of the Perkins Act on Policy and Practice" contains five papers: "Federal Legislation as Rorschach Test: Methodological Issues in Assessing the Effects of the 1990 Perkins Act on States and Localities" (Grubb); "Effects of the 1990…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Accountability, Correctional Education
