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Training Citizen Scientists for Data Reliability: A Multiple Case Study to Identify Themes in Current Training Initiatives
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Gaddis, Margaret L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation characterized trainings designed to prepare citizen scientists to collect ecological data in natural outdoor settings. Citizen scientists are volunteers who participate in scientific activities under the guidance of professional scientists and organizations. The work of citizen scientists greatly expands the data collection…
Descriptors: Scientists, Citizen Participation, Ecology, Data Collection
Designing and Implementing an Evaluability Assessment of a Career-Technical Education Program as the First Step towards Validating Program Effectiveness: A Case Study of Toledo Technology Academy
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Prasad, Vandita – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Career Technology Education (CTE) program evaluations have been mostly completed for compliance and monitoring purposes. Hence, they have limited use in establishing program effectiveness or for program improvement. Moreover, engaging in program evaluations can be time consuming and costly, especially for programs that have not been evaluated in…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Program Evaluation, Readiness, Public Schools
A M-Health Platform for Supporting Clinical Data Integration and Service Delivery: An Example from Augmentative and Alternative Communication Intervention
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Wang, Erh-Hsuan – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Improving the quality of healthcare while simultaneously reducing its overall costs remains a challenge. One of the recommended approaches for achieving this goal is to build high quality data collection and reporting systems to facilitate evidence-based practice (EBP), which emphasizes the importance of using the solid evidence available to make…
Descriptors: Health Services, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Personalized Integrated Educational System (PIES) for the Learner-Centered Information-Age Paradigm of Education: A Study to Improve the Design of the Functions and Features of PIES
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Dutta, Pratima – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The Personalized Integrated Educational System (PIES) design theory is a design recommendation regarding the function and features of Learning Managements Systems (LMS) that can support the information-age learner-centered paradigm of education. The purpose of this study was to improve the proposed functions and features of the PIES design theory…
Descriptors: Integrated Learning Systems, Models, Transcripts (Written Records), Observation
An Analysis of the Effects of Program Structure and Content on Outcomes of Community Leadership Education Programs
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Apaliyah, Godwin Tayese – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study examined community leadership education programs employed in rural communities and organizations of several states to empower both local leaders and residents. In particular, the study investigated the relationships between community leadership education program design and structure (contact hours and content) and six outcome indices of…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Field Trips, Community Development, Program Design
The Examination of the Implementation of the Second Step Program in a Public School System
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Pedraza, Lynn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
As school districts integrate evidence-based prevention programs into their daily regime, they may struggle with implementing these programs with fidelity. This is a multi-method, multi-source, retrospective explanatory study of the implementation factors associated with program installation and partial implementation of an evidence-based violence…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Program Implementation, Violence, Prevention