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Graeber, Anna O. – 1980
This paper describes an instructional improvement approach which aims to assist educational systems to enhance their capabilities to plan and implement effective improvements in their basic skills programs, and illustrates how research on implementation and dissemination is used in the design and development of the approach. Four elements of the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Developmental Programs, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Reimanis, Gunars – 1973
This paper reports the effectiveness of seven different programs at Corning Community College (New York) designed to influence those factors associated with student attrition--low self concept of ability, high debilitating anxiety, low internal reinforcement control, and lack of goal and value clarity. The underlying theme of each of the programs…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Dropout Prevention
Torkelson, Kris – 1992
Information from a survey of temperament and learning styles was used with International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) at the University of Minnesota in an ITA development course to enhance their communication skills and teaching abilities. The study used the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, a condensed version of the Myers-Briggs Temperament Inventory,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Communication Skills, Cultural Differences, Developmental Programs
Center for Successful Child Development, Chicago, IL. – 1989
Described are characteristics of the Center for Successful Child Development (CSCD), a family-oriented early childhood intervention program serving 6 of 28 buildings of the Robert Taylor Homes (a public housing project inhabited by 20,000 people on Chicago's south side). After an introductory section providing background information, discussion…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Comprehensive Programs, Developmental Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Byas, Ulysses – 1984
The Roosevelt School District, with the lowest wealth per pupil of the 56 districts located in Nassau County, Long Island, New York, worked with the Urban Education Department of the University of Massachusetts' Division of Instructional Leadership to design and implement a degree-granting staff development program centered around identifying and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrators, College School Cooperation, Developmental Programs
Cottrell, Vic – 1984
As schools primarily use human resources to accomplish their mission of developing the potential of students, their success is contingent upon the quality of the people employed by the schools. Thus, the selection and development of professionals within the schools is the most important responsibility of the school board and superintendent. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Developmental Programs, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education