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Thompson, Linda W. – 1990
A new Chapter 1 law, P.L. 100-297, was passed in 1988. Chapter 1 schools must examine the program operated during the previous school year. Schools that fail to demonstrate overall achievement gains must develop a Program Improvement Plan (PIP), a document describing how the Chapter 1 program in that school will be modified. This guide provides a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development
Vandenberg, Lela; And Others – 1988
The Research-Practice Linkages Project sought to identify the knowledge base supporting community leadership development (CLD) programs of the Cooperative Extension Service and to determine linkages between Extension programs and CLD research. A mail questionnaire was completed by 492 Extension staff involved in CLD programs in 18 states and 42…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Leaders, Developmental Programs
Zimpfer, Forest; Underwood, Robert – 1988
The 100 largest multinational U.S. corporations were surveyed concerning business communication training provided for personnel assigned to overseas posts. The survey requested information on the existence and content of such formal training programs and the qualifications of their training directors. Results drawn from the 43 usable responses…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Communication Skills, Corporate Education, Cross Cultural Training
Lanke, Barbara A.; And Others – 1991
A groundswell of interest in values education is calling educators to return to the direct and indirect teaching of positive values. Prompted by scandals in the public domain and breakdown in families, character education is gaining ground in public education. Adhering to the "bag of values" approach to moral education and drawing upon…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Ethics
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Planning and Policy Secretariat. – 1993
The purpose of this project was to implement the principles of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) in the "Fort McMurray (Alberta, Canada) Roman Catholic Separate School District (RCSSD) No. 32" and to collect data related to student achievement, responsibility, and attitudes in mathematics to help assess the effects of the implementation.…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs, Mathematics Achievement
Tillman, Yvonne R. – 1994
This practicum was designed to address the problem of a class of 23 second-graders who were unable to make judgments and support opinions at all levels of Bloom's taxonomy. The goals of the practicum were to design and implement a Critical Thinking Skills (CTS) program that taught students to make judgments and support opinions, and that…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Critical Thinking, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Stiles, Rebecca E. – 1991
This research study provides an extensive compilation of information sources on the topic of family literacy for library professionals and other literacy providers. This paper includes the following main sections: (1) combined literature review and annotated bibliography; (2) survey results; and (3) family literacy program descriptions. The first…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Grosenick, J. K.; And Others – 1985
The document consists of a 125-item evaluation instrument for use in assessing the overall plan and quality of programs in the area of serious emotional disturbance (SED) or behavior disorders. Questions are organized according to the following nine categories (based on identified components of a well-designed SED program): (1) respondent and…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Delivery Systems, Emotional Disturbances, Evaluation Methods
Holland, Robert L., Ed.; Drummond, Herbert E., Ed. – 1978
The purpose of the self-appraisal checklist is to assist school personnel in their endeavors to improve the secondary school program of physical education. The checklist is organized into seven major categories that represent essential aspects of a secondary school program: philosophy and principles, organization and administration, class…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Evaluation, Education
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. for Management and Planning Services. – 1978
In August of 1978 an ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) Title I education conference was held to obtain an evaluation of the migrant education programs operated in Wisconsin during the summer of 1978. Five forms were used to collect information from the 47 conference participants with specific forms directed toward instructional staff,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, Educational Objectives, Migrant Children
Halverson, Richard; Prichett, Reid; Grigg, Jeffrey; Thomas, Chris – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2005
The recent demand for schools to respond to external accountability measures challenges school leaders to create school instructional systems that use data to guide the practices of teaching and learning. This paper considers how local school leaders build data-driven instructional systems (DDIS) by developing new programs and using existing…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Data, Instructional Systems, Decision Making
Indiana State Commission on Vocational and Technical Education, Indianapolis. – 1989
A study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of 2 years of single parent and homemaker projects in Indiana. Methodology involved on-site visitation to each of the 14 projects and interviews with 48 project staff and 75 participants. Major findings of the study were as follows: (1) services and activities provided by all the projects have…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Curriculum Design, Day Care, Displaced Homemakers
Center for Occupational Research and Development, Inc., Waco, TX. – 1988
The role of mentoring in the 2 + 2 Instrumentation and Control (I&C) articulation project between the Leander Independent School District (LISD) and Austin Community College (ACC) is discussed in this document. Following a brief history of the origin and function of the mentor, the paper explains the need for the mentoring system in the I&C…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, High Risk Students
Bey, Theresa M.; Hightower, Anne – 1990
The Teacher Education and Mentoring Program (TEAM) allows intern teachers who have not completed the required teacher education courses prior to employment as regular classroom teachers to have the support of master teachers, or mentors, while teaching with provisional certification. The internship is a closely supervised practicum with each…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Internship Programs
Simmons, Joanne M.; And Others – 1987
The Collaboration for the Improvement of Teacher Education (CITE) Project, now beginning its third year, consists of a blocked semester of three courses--curriculum and methods, social aspects of teaching, and measurement and evaluation--and the related field experience activities occurring at the pre-student teaching level. Approximately 120…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Elementary Education
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