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Samuels, Keisha; Estes, M. Todd; Eckman, Heather; Gillerlain, Kelly; Jenkins, Shanda; Miller-Edwards, Wendy; Reinauer, Olivia; Walker, Nicole – Inquiry, 2019
Community colleges offer an array of programs designed to help students meet different goals. Noncredit education provides training for students seeking targeted, often shorter, courses for personal and professional enrichment (Cohen, Brawer, & Kisker, 2014). Many community colleges are now increasingly emphasizing noncredit workforce…
Descriptors: Credits, Noncredit Courses, Best Practices, Community Colleges
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Chisvert-Tarazona, María José; Ros-Garrido, Alicia; Abiétar-López, Míriam; Carro, Luis – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2019
The system of validation and accreditation of professional qualifications in Spain is offered as a certification opportunity, especially for vulnerable groups. The procedure is presented as an evaluative proposal that allows some inequalities associated with training and employment to be addressed. In this article we analyse whether this system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Validation, Accreditation (Institutions), Nonformal Education
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Hofer, Kerry G. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2010
This project involved examining the most widely used instrument designed to evaluate the quality of early learning environments, the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition (ECERS-R). There are many aspects related to the way that the ECERS-R is used in practice that can vary from one observation to the next. The method in which…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Measurement Techniques, Program Validation, Experimenter Characteristics