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Calhoun, Emily F. – 2001
Staff members at the Iowa Department of Education are involved in a 3-year initiative (1998-2001) to strengthen school improvement efforts at the local school, district, and intermediate service agency levels. Papers presented at a symposium of the American Educational Research Association annual meeting describe the multiple purposes and design…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Katz, Lilian G. – 1990
The aims of the International Education Association's Preprimary Project are to examine developmentally relevant characteristics of the socialization environments of 4-year-olds in participating countries, and to ascertain the relationships between those characteristics and selected developmental outcomes. Phase I of the project consists primarily…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Individual Development, International Programs
Abram, Marie J.; And Others – 1979
A cooperative program to improve education in the public schools involving the combined resources of the state department of education, a state university, and the local school districts is described. This Professional Development Center Network (PDC) conducts research to produce decision-making information to upgrade inservice programs in the…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Inservice Teacher Education
Klecker, Beverly; Loadman, William E. – 1995
The 307 schools funded by the Ohio Venture Capital program were the focus of a study on teacher empowerment. This paper focuses on the method used to maximize survey responses, rather than on the study findings. Data were sought from the building principals and 10,544 classroom teachers to create a "total picture" of the individual…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Metaphors
Kalafat, John; And Others – 1982
This paper describes the program and research related to the "Making It" series of 18 multi-media divorce workshops co-sponsored by a community mental health center (CMHC) and a chapter of Parents without Partners (PWP). An introductory section discusses the rationale for larger scale community intervention and epidemiological research. The…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role
Deshler, David; Cunningham, Sue – 1982
This paper provides: (1) a statement regarding the political context for energy conservation education programs; (2) a brief description of the types of program efforts reflected in the literature; (3) an overview of the purposes and approaches to energy conservation education program evaluation reflected in available literature; and (4) a…
Descriptors: Conferences, Conservation Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Energy Conservation
National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health (DHEW/PHS), Rockville, MD. – 1978
The six papers that comprise this document deal with topics related to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and/or its online document retrieval system, NIOSHTIC. Specific subjects include: (1) a method to catalog multiple sources of NIOSH publications for dissemination; (2) an input rejection algorithm used to provide…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cataloging, Government Publications, Health
Leler, Hazel; And Others – 1974
This symposium report summarizes three studies from the Houston Parent-Child Development Center dealing with aspects of a Parent Involvement Program for low-income Mexican-American families. The studies reviewed are: (1) First Results of a Longitudinal Parent Education Program, (2) Prediction of Success in a Parent Education Program, (3)…
Descriptors: Correlation, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Home Programs