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Download full textKeimig, Ruth Talbott – 1983
Improving the quality of learning is basic to raising academic standards. Research on postsecondary learning improvement has provided a base of practical knowledge to guide faculty and planners. Successful learning improvement programs share two essential characteristics: they are more comprehensive in the range of students' needs met, and they…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Change Strategies, Decision Making
Halasz, Ida M. – 1989
Much of the evaluation of vocational education at the state and local levels has been conducted in response to federal legislation. Although some of the evaluative information has been useful for program improvement, much has been collected only for compliance with federal and state mandates. The educational reform movement has prompted school…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 1998
The School-to-Work Opportunities Act, which was designed to improve student learning, in-school retention, and transition to the workplace, requires the restructuring of secondary education and the extensive involvement of business in preparing youth for the workplace. School-to-work initiatives reflect the conditions of the settings and contexts…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
McCaslin, N. L. – 1990
To help vocational education administrators and practitioners, this paper presents a framework for vocational education program evaluation. Evaluation is defined as the act of rendering judgments to determine a program's value; two major types are formative and summative. Vocational education evaluation should take a broader and more comprehensive…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Educational Change, Evaluation Criteria
Reardon, Robert C. – 1981
Designed for the practitioner, this paper presents a review of the literature on postsecondary career education. The paper begins with an overview of the history and present context for postsecondary career education, including a review of the pressing needs of postsecondary schools, a description of some of the issues and problems facing…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Colleges, Demonstration Programs
Naylor, Michele – 1988
The repeal of the Career Education Incentive Act of 1977 in 1981 and a number of societal changes in the last decade have altered the context of career education. Rapid changes in information and technology, changing family patterns, structural changes in the economy and labor market, and the trend toward lifelong education are all factors that…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2001
Leadership development is an important, longstanding concern in career and technical education (CTE). CTE's focus on leadership development has traditionally started in secondary programs, continued in postsecondary programs, and included formal credit and noncredit activities for preservice or inservice CTE teachers or administrators. Because of…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Effectiveness, Adult Learning, Conventional Instruction
