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Taggart, Robert – 1986
The Comprehensive Competencies Program (CCP) is intended for use in delivering individualized, competency-based instruction in such diverse settings as community-based organizations, schools, corrections facilities, and job training programs. The learning system covers academic competencies ranging from elementary reading and arithmetic through…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Computer Managed Instruction
Anderson, B. Harold – 1986
The purpose of the study reported in this document was to describe the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the vocational teacher education programs among institutions that are members of the University Council for Vocational Education. A questionnaire was mailed to representatives of each member institution in October 1985, with a 100…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Doctoral Programs, Enrollment Trends, Financial Support
Burn, Barbara B.; And Others – 1990
This book reports on part of the results of an international research effort to analyze the structures and impacts of study abroad programs offered by higher education institutions in France, West Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. This volume, the first of two, presents the analysis of the structure and dynamics of study…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Credits, Developed Nations, Expenditure per Student
Colorado Commission on Higher Education, Denver. – 1999
This report summarizes the activities of the three components of Colorado's statewide extended campus during the 1998-99 academic year. The first, and largest, section focuses on the extended studies program, which has been Colorado's primary vehicle for the delivery of off-campus instruction since 1972. The report provides an overview of the…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Distance Education, Educational Finance, Enrollment
Hartle, Helen – 1982
Responses and changes made, in answer to the passage and implementation of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, to preservice and inservice teacher certification patterns and requirements and program approval standards for teacher preparation programs in the United States are described in this report. Part 1 is an analysis of the…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Mainstreaming
National Home Study Council, Washington, DC. – 1983
A study examined the course structure and educational practices used by National Home Study Council (NHSC) member institutions. To gather data for the study, researchers mailed questionnaires to 60 members of the NHSC. Based on data from the 51 usable responses, the researchers determined that the average age of students enrolled in programs…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Correspondence Schools, Course Content, Educational Practices
Anderson, Judith – 1983
ESEA Title I, now Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, was designed to provide financial assistance to local education agencies to meet the special needs of educationally deprived children, with funds used to provide supplemental instructional support service. Starting with the 1979-80 school year, each state…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, Comparative Analysis, Educationally Disadvantaged
Center for Statistics (ED/OERI), Washington, DC. – 1986
A study examined the services provided by and the role and training of volunteers in adult literacy programs in the United States. Data on a national probability sample of approximately 800 adult literacy programs that was collected by the Center for Statistics through its Fast Response Survey System indicated that in spring 1985 adult literacy…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Delivery Systems
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1981
This file contains data collected in 1981 from postsecondary institutions offering vocational education programs. This file provides detailed information on the individual program offerings of the responding institutions, including enrollments in various categories, completions, and other outcomes. Institutional and program characteristics are…
Descriptors: Career Education, Correspondence Schools, Databases, Enrollment
Opper, Susan; And Others – 1990
This is the second volume of a report on the findings of an international research effort designed to analyze the structures and impact of study abroad programs offered by higher education institutions in France, West Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. This volume focuses primarily upon study abroad program participants,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Age, Cultural Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Elementary, Secondary, and Continuing Education. – 1984
This report on at-risk students presents a general overview of the extent of the problem in the State of New York and current responses to it. Pupils-at-risk are defined as those whose school achievement and/or social behavior is negatively and seriously affected by educational, family, societal, or personal problems. These pupils are not…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Career Guidance, Counseling Services, Dropout Prevention
Walking Eagle, Karen P.; Miller, Tiffany D.; Cooc, North; LaFleur, Jennifer; Reisner, Elizabeth R. – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2009
New Jersey After 3 (NJ After 3) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to expand and improve afterschool opportunities for New Jersey's youth. Using both public and private resources, it supports a network of youth-service providers that deliver afterschool services based on NJ After 3's program model. Under an agreement with NJ…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Program Content, Nonprofit Organizations
Phelps, Richard P.; Parsad, Basmat; Farris, Elizabeth; Hudson, Lisa – 2001
Two Spring 1999 surveys collected data weighted to provide national estimates of occupational program activities. Respondents in public secondary schools (SSs) were asked about program activities for 28 selected occupations within 6 broad occupational areas; those in less than four-year postsecondary institutions (PIs) were asked about activities…
Descriptors: Course Content, Credentials, Criteria, High Schools
Huffington, Dale; And Others – 1990
Of the 329,301 independent study enrollments reported by 77 National University Continuing Education Association (NUCEA) institutions in 1988-89, 55 percent are in college courses (a slight increase over 1987-88), 32 percent are in high school courses (a slight decrease), and 13 percent are in noncredit courses. When a comparison is made of only…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Programs, Continuing Education, Correspondence Study
Burrola, Luis Ramon; Rivera, Jose A. – 1983
Fiscal reductions as well as growing conservatism may have a profound impact on many university programs, including Chicano Studies programs, which are expanding into research, publications, and other areas. To frame the issues of greatest concern to Chicano Studies programs, a small research effort at the University of New Mexico involved the…
Descriptors: Activism, Curriculum Development, Delphi Technique, Educational Environment
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