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Download full textLester, Paula E.; White, Richard K. – 1988
An investigation sought to ascertain the characteristics of preservice administrator graduates of the New York State Department of Educational Leadership and Administration (DELA) master's degree and professional diploma programs on the bases of their demographic traits, their career status and expectations, and their perceptions of their program…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Experience Programs
Gomez, Joseph J. – 1988
The Dade-Monroe (Florida) Teacher Education Center (TEC) was evaluated. The TEC was founded in 1979 and serves the instructional personnel (teachers, teacher aides, and teacher assistants) in the public schools of Dade and Monroe counties. Program documents were reviewed and structured interviews were held with 7 TEC facilitators, 9 council…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Development, Professional Training, Program Evaluation
Gray, H. L. – 1980
The process of assessment of learners in professional training is discussed. In professional training, students are involved in assessment, since the examining process is overtly linked to the learning practice. Distinctions concerning examinations, assessment, and evaluation are offered. Professional training is concerned with competence in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Individual Development, Interpersonal Competence, Professional Development
Jones, Kathleen F. – 1991
This study compared the job satisfaction, professional commitment, and perceived level of support from peers of family day care providers who were in networking groups or who worked in isolation. Subjects were providers in suburban Chicago, 30 of whom were associated with a network and 30 of whom were independent providers. Subjects were surveyed…
Descriptors: Caregiver Attitudes, Child Caregivers, Comparative Analysis, Early Childhood Education
Education Administration (EdAd) and Capacity for School Improvement: Restructuring Public Education.
Achilles, C. M. – 2003
This essay discusses professional development as a capacity-building strategy. It raises questions about various approaches to capacity building, including the emphasis on professional development. It states that despite self-reports and surveys, scant, if any, replicable empirical evidence relates professional development to changes in teacher…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Educational Research
Webster, Jennifer M. – 2001
The purpose of this study was to document a community college faculty development process through which the faculty learned to reconstruct their curriculum around significant learning outcomes and authentic assessment strategies. Five questions focused the inquiry: (1) What kind of organizational support systems were necessary for the faculty to…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction, Community Colleges
Ceperley, Patricia E. – 1991
School library media specialists in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia were surveyed in April 1990 to determine their perceptions of their training needs as they are being called upon to use the latest information technologies to access, transfer, and store information. The 2,202 responses received represented a response rate of…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis, Information Technology
