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Williams, Eunice – 1991
The low number of high school students electing to take advantage of the training available at a vocational school was addressed by implementing a program of activities intended to increase knowledge and develop critical thinking skills in decision making. The program took place in a West Florida high school with 1,819 students in grades 9-12, the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Critical Thinking, Enrollment Influences, High Schools
Malaspina, Barbara A. – 1993
This practicum was designed to strengthen preschool and elementary school teachers' abilities and commitment to working with parents and including them as active participants in the education of their children. It sought to help teachers identify beliefs about involving parents in the classroom and school, and to develop materials and activities…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Parent Attitudes
Callahan, Robert K. – 1986
For decades, educators have been concerned with the problem of truancy. Accordingly, this report focuses on an absentee improvement program at a rural, lower-middle class, predominantly white elementary school with 722 students that had a history of high truancy, as verified by teachers, the administration, the school counselor, staff, and…
Descriptors: Attendance, Attitude Change, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
MacWright, Alicia Cox – 1985
A parent education component was planned and implemented as part of a university-based preschool program in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers-The State University. Goals of the practicum were to survey parents to identify topics of interest to them; to develop a parent education program focused on topics identified by parents; to sensitize…
Descriptors: Newsletters, Parent Attitudes, Parent Education, Preschool Education
Carlson, Sharon – 1986
This practicum was designed to reinforce the importance of meeting the needs of the whole child in the classroom--the social, emotional, and psychological needs, not just the intellectual needs. The practicum was implemented in the Montessori Learning Center, a small private preschool and elementary school located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, by…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Guidelines
Karnes, Judith A. – 1994
This practicum was designed to provide expertise to five child development associates and ten teacher assistants working in two preschool programs for migrant children. Emphasis was on the enhancement of program-related planning, curriculum development, curriculum implementation, and reporting skills. Weekly inservice workshops were developed and…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Migrant Children, Migrant Education, Preschool Education
Folsom, Kathy – 1994
A program was designed to improve the reading interests of students in a rural middle school. An analysis of the problem indicated that the students were not reading many library books. One of the probable causes for the lack of interest was related to the small amount of recreational reading done by students. A search of the literature revealed…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
Miner, Nanette J. – 1998
This study compares the retention rates between students at Tunxis Community-Technical Colleges who took the student development seminar and those who did not. Implemented in fall 1997, the seminar orients new students to the college experience, attempting to increase retention rates. In order to conduct the study, a review of the literature was…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Enrollment Trends, Outcomes of Education
Wanza, Valerie S. – 1996
A program was developed and implemented to help increase the attendance of potential grade 10 dropouts from a predominantly black urban area. The objectives for the program were to increase the daily attendance rate for the 10 targeted students by at least 40%, to develop positive career and life goals, and, for 4 of the young men, to develop…
Descriptors: Attendance, Attitude Change, Black Students, Counseling
Stang, David – 1993
A staff-needs planning system was developed and tested in a Department of Social Services' Family and Children's Services Unit in a medium-sized county where caseworkers used no established strategy or planning method to facilitate accomplishment of all the job requirements. The goal of the study was to implement a planning system based on each…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Welfare, Efficiency, Job Performance
Stivers, John L. – 1995
A practicum project involved the development and implementation of a program to increase the positive attitudes and knowledge of 15 members of a target group in a county sheriff's office and thereby increase the productive use of the computer information system (IS). The people involved were county law enforcement officers and support staff in a…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy, Computer Networks
Blakes-Greenway, Doris – 1994
This practicum was designed to improve communication between the mostly low-income, Hispanic parents and the non-Hispanic staff of a school-based preschool program. Parents of the program's 20 children were surveyed to determine what factors might encourage their participation in school functions. Parents were also interviewed by telephone and in…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Low Income Groups, Parent Attitudes, Parent Education
Ahlborn, Ernest S. – 1995
A marketing program implemented in 18 small, rural agricultural communities aimed at increasing enrollment in the daily religious classes held by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Approximately 23 percent of the population in the 18 communities belong to this Church. Daily religious instruction is provided in released-time…
Descriptors: Enrollment Influences, High School Students, Higher Education, Marketing
Mackin, Sara Lee – 1979
Due to the implementation of new standards for academic progress in Fall 1978 and the resultant suspension of or imposition of credit limitations upon students not meeting these standards, Miami-Dade Community College developed and tested an academic alert program in which computer-generated letters were sent to students at mid-term to provide an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Counseling
Randolph, Elizabeth – 1993
This practicum involved the development, implementation, and evaluation of a program which used a bibliotherapeutic approach to develop specific behaviors with three second graders and seven fifth graders, all in a resource program for students with emotional handicaps. A needs assessment survey of mainstream teachers identified needs in the…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Bibliotherapy, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education
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