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John Bowser; Amy Bellmore; Jim Larson – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2020
The Wisconsin School Violence and Bullying Prevention Study, funded by the National Institutes of Justice (NIJ), was a two-year case-control study in 24 Wisconsin middle schools (11 experimental; 13 control) seeking to understand the impact of a comprehensive bullying prevention program on bullying victimization rates. Participating schools'…
Descriptors: Prevention, Bullying, Middle School Students, Program Evaluation
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Capka, John; Foltin, Craig – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2017
Accounting internships provide substantial benefits to employers and students alike. However, opportunities for students are not equitable across all populations due to the existing policies that exist for placing interns. This inequity is particularly true for students from community colleges where there is a larger proportion of underrepresented…
Descriptors: Accounting, Internship Programs, Program Proposals, Program Improvement
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Gallifa, Josep; Batalle, Pere – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2010
Purpose: This paper aims to present an in-depth case study with student perceptions of service quality, discussing the relevance of these perceptions for the important issue of quality improvement in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents institutional research carried out in a multi-campus system in Spain made up of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicampus Colleges, Case Studies, Educational Quality
Lockheed, Marlaine; Harris, Abigail; Gammill, Paul; Barrow, Karima; Jayasundera, Tamara – Academy for Educational Development, 2006
The New Horizons for Primary Schools (NHP) was implemented in 72 government schools in Jamaica, from 1998-2005. The program provided support to schools on the basis of needs identified through the preparation of a School Development Plan (also called a School Improvement Plan). This independent evaluation report first compares the schools in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Surveys, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Hirsch, Eric; Emerick, Scott; Barnes, Gary; Berry, Barnett – Center for Teaching Quality, 2004
The Southeast Center for Teaching Quality (The Center) has conducted a study of the costs of high quality Teacher Preparation on behalf of the Regional Education Laboratory at SERVE and at the request of the Alabama State Department of Education. In light of the recommendations issued by Alabama's Task Force to Improve Educator Preparation and the…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs, Comparative Analysis
Glezer, Helen – 1988
A study was made to obtain a broad overview of the operation of maternity leave in Australia from the perspectives of employees and employers. The study included: (1) an employee survey exploring the use and non-use of maternity leave and identifying determinants of taking maternity leave and of retaining women in the labor force after childbirth;…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Cohen, Arthur M.; Brawer, Florence B. – 1996
The Center for the Study for Community Colleges has examined community colleges in terms of the transfer function for over two decades, initiating the Transfer Assembly project in 1989 to collect hard, comparative data on transfer outcomes. In fall 1995, California's Cerritos College approached the Center for assistance in increasing its transfer…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Michigan State Council on Vocational Education, Lansing. – 1995
The vocational education programs offered in Michigan's juvenile corrections institutions were reviewed. Information was collected from the following sources: review of student outcomes; student and teacher surveys; and team reviews and surveys of students at two residential training schools for juveniles (Maxley and Adrian training schools); site…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Correctional Education, Criminals
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1981
This handbook aids the foreign language teacher in conducting a reappraisal of her/his foreign language program. Section one discusses the formulation of a philosophy of foreign language education and a rationale for including foreign languages in the curriculum. Section two helps the teacher recognize expected student outcomes for particpation in…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy