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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1986
This report describes and evaluates the initial data collection system of the Department of Labor's Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and focuses on recently proposed revisions to reporting requirements. Focus is placed on the collection of data on the Title II program for disadvantaged youths and adults. After describing the system generally,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Disadvantaged, Federal Programs, Information Needs
Goudreau, Nancy – Lifelong Learning, 1986
This article describes how the practitioners in one small adult literacy program selected particular research findings upon which to establish a core of instructional tenets. It discusses the teacher's need for such a core, useful research, and principles for adult literacy instruction. (CT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Core Curriculum, Literacy Education
Donner, William W. – 1980
The transfer of educational research into instructional practice through educational development is a complex process. A longitudinal study of five schools working with two development efforts illustrates the complexity of this process. Each development effort sought to create an "approach" that external linking agents could use to help…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Educational Research, Feedback

Eron, Leonard, D. – American Psychologist, 1987
Describes theoretical developments that have guided the interpretation of findings in a large-scale study of the development of aggression over 22 years. As the data have accumulated, they have been found to be relevant to operant formulations as well as to social learning theory and cognitive behaviorism. (Author/VM)
Descriptors: Behavior, Behaviorism, Data Collection, Learning Theories
Wile, J. M. – 1994
A study investigated how the beliefs of literacy scholars affect the development of basal reading programs, the roles literacy scholars play in the development of new reading programs, and some of the critical factors that affect the disposition of innovative ideas. Two literacy scholars who had actively collaborated on the development of separate…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Case Studies, Decision Making, Elementary Education

McCutchen, Deborah; Berninger, Virginia W. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1999
This article describes a model of inservice training for regular and special educators (K-4th grade), with a focus on updating teachers on recent research developments in preventing and treating reading and writing disabilities and translating this knowledge into classroom practice. The effectiveness of the model is discussed. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education
Green, Lawrence W. – 1978
Research evidence on the potentials of health education for contributing to resolution of national health issues was reviewed. It is concluded that greater investments in health education on selected problems for selected populations would yield a better cost-benefit return than comparable investments in tertiary medical care. High priority groups…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Government Role, Health Education, Health Services
Tikunoff, William J.; And Others – 1979
Interactive Research and Development on Teaching (IR&DT) is an alternative Research and Development (R&D) strategy that probes the questions, problems, and concerns of classroom teachers in a nonlinear manner. Each of the primary functions of traditional R&D--research, development, dissemination, and implementation--are performed…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Research, Experimental Programs, Inservice Teacher Education

Marklund, Inger – International Review of Education, 1981
The author explains the role and financing of educational research and development (R&D) in Sweden, as it operates under the central education authority, the National Board of Education. She discusses a government report on R&D effects and considers the potential impact on research of current trends toward decentralization in education.…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Research, Educational Trends

Curtis, Karen A. – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1989
Examines the role of ethnography as a resource in the process of needs assessment in a multi-ethnic, low-income section of Philadelphia. Analyzes the relationship between the targeted neighborhood's socioeconomic characteristics and human service environment and discusses the work done with neighborhood leaders in developing a plan based on the…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Community Cooperation, Community Organizations, Ethnography
Hayward, Becky Jon – 1989
This report reports activities of the Regional Information Exchange (RIE) program under the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research's Knowledge Dissemination and Utilization Program. An overview compares the RIE program with a National Diffusion Network unit--the Joint Dissemination Review Panel, which also focuses on…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Information Dissemination, National Programs
Modisette, Laura J.; Bonnet, Deborah G. – 1981
The "Rural America Guidance Series" of the National Center for Research in Vocational Education is a set of sixteen handbooks designed to help rural and small schools plan, develop, implement, and evaluate a career guidance and counseling program for grades K-14. It has been widely adopted by state departments, intermediate service…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Blackwell, Laird; And Others – 1978
This report describes the technical assistance rendered to the NIE-sponsored R&D Utilization Program (R&DU) by the contractor working with the NIE staff, the Center for the Study of Evaluation, and the seven R&DU projects, to develop cross-project instrumentation, develop mutually acceptable plans for data collection and analysis, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Morris, Lee; And Others – 1979
In this book a collection of articles report the results of several projects designed to adapt research findings into classroom practice through inservice education. In the first of four sections an introductory article discusses the concept of research adaptation as a tool for staff improvement. The second section is devoted to articles on using…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Educational Research, Information Dissemination, Inservice Teacher Education
Arch, Elizabeth C. – 1988
The primary objective of this project, initiated at Lewis and Clark College, Oregon, was to identify the most valid, reliable, and salient research findings on teaching, learning, and teacher education, and to use those findings in the development and implementation of revised preservice and inservice programs. Particular areas of current research…
Descriptors: General Education, Higher Education, Internship Programs, Masters Degrees