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Devlin, Marcia; Radloff, Alex – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
The growing interest in the higher education sector in publishing pedagogical research has led to a focus on professional development for staff who wish to engage in this endeavour. This paper describes and evaluates a specific programme designed to help university staff to prepare and submit a high-quality paper to a peer-reviewed journal.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Research, Faculty Development
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French, Fred; And Others – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 1994
Highlights need for collaboration, integration, and expansion in designing evaluation models for career development programs. Outlines fledgling evaluation model that began to emerge at Symposium on Issues and Solutions for Evaluating Career Development Programs and Services. Notes that model addresses dimensions critical in evaluation of career…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Mitchell, Philip – Vocational Aspect of Education, 1986
Issues related to an open learning program, the West Yorkshire Open Learning Federation, are explored. Issues include (1) institutional framework for course, (2) approach to "openness" and implications regarding the target population, and (3) accreditation and monitoring. Stresses that acceptability of educational outcomes requires flexibility in…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Independent Study
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Schulz, William E.; Ertelt, Bernd-Joachim – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 1991
Presents a comparison of counselor training programs in 16 countries with relation to issues such as occupational choice or career development, professionals or technicians, labor utilization or career satisfaction, and information or relationship. Uses examples from the various countries to provide possible responses to these issues, and outlines…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Counselor Training, Cultural Differences
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Benseman, John; Sutton, Alison – Adult Basic Education, 1999
Details the design and implementation of a rolling review process for community-based adult literacy programs. Describes four steps: documentation to become "review ready," collection of feedback from participants and key informants, site visit by reviewers, and use of the evaluation report as a planning tool. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Community Organizations, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
White, Tony; And Others – Transition, 1987
The authors discuss problems of Great Britain's Youth Training Scheme (YTS), including high dropout rates, uneven program quality, and the program's image with employers. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Job Training, Outcomes of Education
Chaves, Lushanhya Coutinho; And Others – 1986
A family planning clinic which was part of a large public maternity hospital in Salvador Bahia, Brazil received a grant to expand its services and to evaluate a service model focusing on client counseling and education. The counseling, education, and service provision process included individual pre-consultation with a nurse, group education and…
Descriptors: Contraception, Counseling, Family Planning, Foreign Countries
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Oakley, Peter – Community Development Journal, 1988
The author examines the relevance of the monitoring and evaluation literature and practice to the issue of how to understand and to monitor and evaluate nonmaterial or nonproductive objectives of rural development. He discusses an alternative monitoring and evaluation approach that will resolve this issue. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries
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Young, Richard A.; Valach, Ladislav – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 1994
Presents action-theoretical approach to evaluation of career development programs based on constructionist epistemology. Propositions from action-theoretical perspective center around career and action as related, interpretative constructs. Propositions give rise to implications for evaluation of career programs that address ongoing nature of…
Descriptors: Career Development, Counseling Effectiveness, Epistemology, Evaluation Methods
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1987
This book is a compilation of drug education and drug abuse prevention materials collected by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) along with example of activities carried out by various countries. It opens with four introductory papers by separate authors: (1) "Prevention of Drug Dependence: A Utopian…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Foreign Countries, Prevention
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Alexander, David J. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1989
Reviews development issues in Thailand and the response of nonformal education. Concentrates on the potential of qualitative evaluation in creating more responsive policies and programs. Draws on experiences with 43 Thai participants in an earlier workshop, "Evaluation in Nonformal Education in Thailand." (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education
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Whitelaw, Carolyn A.; Perez, Edgardo L. – Administration in Mental Health, 1987
Reviews the historical background, standards, the issue of day treatment versus day care, functional issues, specialization, efficacy and cost effectiveness, utilization issues, and alternative models of care of partial hospitalization programs in North America. Emphasizes issues of relevance when planning alternative programs to inpatient…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Hospitals, Medical Services
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Hiebert, Bryan – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1984
Provides a model for incorporating counseling evaluation concerns such as data on the counselor's instructional behaviors, client adherence to the counseling intervention and client change. Points out that much of the research on counselor effectiveness focuses on counselor characteristics rather than building the case that counseling services are…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Performance, Counselor Training, Data Collection
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Pastor, Manuel – Integrated Education, 1983
Discusses Cuba's successes in equalizing education among Black and White, male and female, rural and urban, and young and old Cubans. Discusses the biggest source of potential and actual inequality, the new elite high schools. (CMG)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries
Neufeld, Beth E. – School Guidance Worker, 1980
Suggests communication techniques to improve counselors' public relations with specific groups. An examination of goals and programs is needed to justify the continuation and expansion of school counseling programs. (JAC)
Descriptors: Accountability, Communications, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Client Relationship
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