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Improving Students' College Math Readiness: A Review of the Evidence on Postsecondary Interventions and Reforms. A CAPSEE Working Paper
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Hodara, Michelle – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2013
This paper reviews current research on the effectiveness of interventions and reforms that seek to improve the math preparedness and success of high school students entering college. Based on gaps in the research knowledge, it also provides recommendations for further inquiry in particular areas. The studies reviewed here are selected from…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Bound Students, College Preparation, Mathematics Instruction
Module 4--Effective Teaching. School Improvement Specialist Training Materials: Performance Standards, Improving Schools, and Literature Review
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Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia (NJ1), 2005
The School Improvement Specialist Project prepared seven modules. School improvement specialists, as defined by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia, are change agents who work with schools to help them improve in the following areas so as to increase student achievement. These modules are intended to provide training materials for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Specialists, Literature, Learning Modules
Module 7--Purposeful Student Assessment. School Improvement Specialist Training Materials: Performance Standards, Improving Schools, and Literature Review
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Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia (NJ1), 2005
The School Improvement Specialist Project prepared seven modules. School improvement specialists, as defined by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia, are change agents who work with schools to help them improve in the following areas so as to increase student achievement. These modules are intended to provide training materials for…
Descriptors: Specialists, Literature Reviews, Learning Modules, Educational Change
Module 6--Aligned and Balanced Curriculum. School Improvement Specialist Training Materials: Performance Standards, Improving Schools, and Literature Review
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Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia (NJ1), 2005
The School Improvement Specialist Project prepared seven modules. School improvement specialists, as defined by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia, are change agents who work with schools to help them improve in the following areas so as to increase student achievement. These modules are intended to provide training materials for…
Descriptors: Specialists, Literature Reviews, Academic Standards, Learning Modules
Teacher Education: An Assembly Line in Need of a Designer.
Palmatier, Robert A. – 1977
Trends and changes in educational philosophy and policy over approximately the last 50 years are reviewed. The point is made that teacher education faculty members have neglected to consider the overall, "designer" role that they occupy, and instead have focused undue attention on the delineation of specific teacher competencies and educational…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Educational Philosophy
Module 5--Shared Goals for Learning. School Improvement Specialist Training Materials: Performance Standards, Improving Schools, and Literature Review
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Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia (NJ1), 2005
The School Improvement Specialist Project prepared seven modules. School improvement specialists, as defined by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia, are change agents who work with schools to help them improve in the following areas so as to increase student achievement. These modules are intended to provide training materials for…
Descriptors: Specialists, Literature Reviews, Goal Orientation, Learning Modules
Modular Vocational Education and Training in Scotland and the Netherlands: Between Specificity and Coherence.
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de Bruijn, E.; Howieson, C. – Comparative Education, 1995
Draws on sociological and learning theory perspectives to compare Scottish and Dutch initiatives in the modularization of initial (postcompulsory) vocational education and training. Features of the modular system in both countries seem closely related to strategies chosen to offer customized vocational training for various client groups while not…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
An Overview of Vocational Education and Training in Turkey.
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European Training Foundation, Turin (Italy). – 1999
Data for studies of vocational education and training systems in Turkey and five other countries in the region were gathered through an analysis of existing studies and visits to the main stakeholders in the countries. Some of the main conclusions reached by the study of Turkey include the following: (1) there is a great need for improving the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
Building Literacy and Numeracy into Training: A Synthesis of Recent Research into the Effects of Integrating Literacy and Numeracy into Training Packages.
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Sanguinetti, Jill, Ed.; Hartley, Robyn, Ed. – 2000
The six state-based research centers of the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium (ALNARC) investigated the effects of inclusion of literacy and numeracy standards in Australia's national training packages and the standards' impact on the quality of learning and work outcomes. The six ALNARC projects, which used a case study…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning