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Peer reviewedHolbert, Fred; Eskridge, Chris – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1991
Reviews juvenile community treatment alternative to long-term state institutionalization and presents means of monitoring participant progress through five-step Individual Developmental Treatment Alternative program. Analysis of 3 years of staff-generated residential behavior data on 30 participants revealed differentiation in response to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Delinquency, Developmental Programs
Download full textContra Costa Community Coll. District, Martinez, CA. – 2001
This document addresses the needs of students that enter community colleges unprepared at entry postsecondary coursework and therefore require remedial, basic skills, and/or developmental education programs. The major student groups served by developmental programs are recent high school graduates, returning adults, high school dropouts,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Development, Development Communication, Developmental Programs
Peer reviewedWald, Rhoada – Innovative Higher Education, 1984
An experimental adult studies curriculum for adult students at Empire State is analyzed in terms of trends in adult participation in higher education and of four theoretical perspectives: life cycle theory, ego development, moral development, and adult learning style. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Cognitive Style, Curriculum Development
Dever, Martha Taylor; And Others – Principal, 1994
Recent research supports Vygotsky's "zone of proximal development" theory; children receiving peer assistance can stretch their learning beyond their individual accomplishment. A study of a multiage classroom revealed three strategies used by children working together to solve math problems--modeling, tutoring, and pairing/sharing…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cooperative Learning, Developmental Programs
Buttery, John; Allan, John A. B. – Canadian Counsellor, 1981
Grade seven students participated in a developmental guidance program designed around writing two journal entries a week for the school year. Students wrote about individual tasks and issues. Results indicate the writing process and class discussions which followed seemed to facilitate emotional, social, and academic growth. (Author)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Communication Skills, Developmental Programs, Elementary Education
Malcolm, Clifford K.; Owen, John M. – 1981
To enhance the professional development of teachers and encourage an ongoing climate of innovation and reform, while providing for direct benefits for students, Australia's Schools Commission instituted a program allowing funds for curricular innovation to be granted directly to teachers. Interviews with a random sample of 45 of these grantees,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developmental Programs, Educational Innovation, Faculty Development
Nunnelley, Jeanette – 1996
This pilot study compared developmental outcomes, academic achievement, and parent involvement for children attending a Title I full-day kindergarten with those of children attending a Title I half-day program in New Albany, Indiana. The subjects were nine children from the full-day program and ten children from the half-day program. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developmental Programs, Full Day Half Day Schedules, Individual Development
