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Ragosta, Summer; Potter, Daniel; Bartosh, Heath – American Biology Teacher, 2020
We present results from the first year of a three-year extramurally funded project involving a partnership between an ethnically diverse urban high school and professional research botanists. The goals are to provide students exposure to real-world science, broaden interest in scientific fields of study, and increase floristic data and herbarium…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Biology, Science Instruction, Science Careers
Atchison, Drew; Baker, Bruce; Levin, Jesse; Manship, Karen – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2017
Concerns about the equitable distribution of school funding within and across school districts have led to new federal data collections on school-level expenditures. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) required states to collect and report, for the first time, school-level data on both personnel and non-personnel expenditures…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Expenditures, School Districts, Data Collection
Knechtel, Virginia; Anderson, Mary Anne; Burnett, Alyson; Coen, Thomas; Sullivan, Margaret; Tuttle, Christina Clark; Gleason, Philip – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2015
The Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) charter schools' consistently positive impacts on student achievement (detailed in Volume I of this report) have prompted efforts to scale up the KIPP model to serve more students. According to the KIPP model, highly qualified and autonomous principals, supported by national and regional staff, drive the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Scaling, Leadership, Program Evaluation
Curry, Kath – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
To what extent do local governments use vocational education and training as a staff retention strategy? Human resources personnel from a selection of councils around Australia believed that a lack of career development or training opportunities might cause an employee to leave their organisation. They had some reservations about the quality and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Local Government, Data Analysis, Educational Opportunities
Smith, Andrew; Courvisanos, Jerry; Tuck, Jacqueline; McEachern, Steven – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
This document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report "Building the Capacity to Innovate: The Role of Human Capital," and is an added resource for further information. This document contains the following appendices: (1) Survey methodology; (2) Synopsis of the literature; (3) Interview questions; and (4) Survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Research Methodology, Literature Reviews
Lundberg, David; Marshallsay, Zaniah – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
Older workers' perspectives are examined in a national survey of the finance sector and case studies of aged care and construction workers. The majority of older workers intend to work beyond retirement age, to achieve a better lifestyle. With training, older workers could mentor younger workers. This support document includes a national survey of…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Finance Occupations, Retirement, Older Adults
Lundberg, David; Marshallsay, Zariah – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
Older workers' perspectives are examined in a national survey of the finance sector and case studies of aged care and construction workers. The majority of older workers intend to work beyond retirement age, to achieve a better lifestyle. With training, older workers could mentor younger workers. This support document includes a national survey of…
Descriptors: Retirement, Older Adults, Foreign Countries, Older Workers
Lundberg, David; Marshallsay, Zaniah – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
Older workers' perspectives are examined in a national survey of the finance sector and case studies of aged care and construction workers. The majority of older workers intend to work beyond retirement age, to achieve a better lifestyle. With training, older workers could mentor younger workers. (Contains 30 tables.) [This work has been produced…
Descriptors: Retirement, Older Adults, Foreign Countries, Older Workers
Frederiksen, Jens V.; Westphalen, Sven-Age – 1998
This document examines the principles, use, and benefits of human resource accounting (HRA), which uses numerical and nonnumerical data on items such as costs and benefits of training, staff turnover, absenteeism, and the value of employees' knowledge to measure the value of human resources in enterprises. The introduction presents an overview of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Adult Education, Case Studies, Data Analysis
Hayes, Chris; And Others – 1984
This report describes how key elements in the vocational education and training (VET) policies in the Federal Republic of Germany, the United States, and Japan underpin the economic competitiveness of those countries. It focuses on how they support their effective response to changing markets and a rapidly changing economic environment and shows…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Case Studies, Competition, Developed Nations
Kumata, Ruth; Murata, Alice – 1980
This report presents the proceedings of a Chicago conference and other information acquired as part of a project designed to increase the access of Asian and Pacific American women to U.S. Department of Labor programs. The first part of the report describes the Chicago conference and includes several articles: (1) a history of Asian women in…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Business, Case Studies, Employed Women
Seelye, H. Ned; Wasilewski, Jacqueline Howell – 1981
This report examines the results of an exploratory research study of the social competency development among multicultural students who attended an after school program administered by the Spanish Education Development Center in Washington, D.C. Three main questions were probed: (1) What social competencies are needed by multicultural children to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Case Studies, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Pluralism
Tamkin, P.; Barber, L. – 1998
The questions of how managers learn and what kind of learning really makes a difference in managers' development were examined through case studies during which some 60 managers from five well-known organizations (a large private sector firm, the British Post Office, a British government department, Britain's open university, and a British large…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Business Administration Education
Fullan, Michael; And Others – 1978
This volume, the fourth of a five-volume series, contains three onsite case studies of organization development (OD) selected from a sample of 76 school districts. The purpose of the case studies was to analyze in detail different types of OD programs and their use. Each case study represents a different OD focus: case study A involves a survey…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Adoption (Ideas), Boards of Education
Zandniapour, Lily; Conway, Maureen – 2001
The benefits of sectoral workforce development programs to the working poor were examined in a 3-year longitudinal study of participants in six sectoral employment training programs across the United States. The programs, which were all designed to serve low-income clients, provided training in a diverse set of industries, including the following:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Allied Health Occupations, Building Trades
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