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Okoli, B. E.; Azih, N. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The paper reviewed a business education programme in Nigeria vis-a-vis its role in human resource development and highlighted deficiencies in programme curricular and delivery changes needed in remodeling of the programme to enhance learning outcomes, increase skill acquisition, meet world's standards and current labour demands in business…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Delivery Systems, Curriculum Evaluation
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Schmoker, Mike; Jago, Carol – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2013
The English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core State Standards ([CCSS], 2010) could have a transformational effect on American education. Though the process seems daunting, one can begin immediately integrating the essence of the ELA Common Core in every subject area. This article shows how one could implement the Common Core and create coherent,…
Descriptors: State Standards, Language Arts, Program Implementation, Curriculum Development
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Sloan, Tine Falk – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
The current U.S. education agenda places unprecedented attention on improving the quality of its roughly fifteen hundred teacher preparation programs. The effort places considerable weight on measuring program effectiveness and includes a push to hold programs accountable for their graduates' effects on student performance. Concerns regarding the…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Accountability, Teacher Education Programs, Data
New Leaders, 2014
Despite the recent push to design and adopt educator evaluation systems, many states and local educational agencies (LEAs) have focused primarily on teacher evaluations and lack the appropriate attention to design and implementation of school leader evaluations and aligned professional development. And, since principals are responsible for…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Principals, Federal Programs, Federal Legislation
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Bassok, Daphna; Fitzpatrick, Maria; Loeb, Susanna; Paglayan, Agustina S. – Education Finance and Policy, 2013
Historically, the early childhood care and education (ECCE) workforce has been characterized as a low-education, low-compensation, low-stability workforce. In recent years, considerable investments have been made to correct this, but we lack evidence about the extent to which these investments were accompanied by changes in the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Educational Attainment
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Griffiths, Amanda – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
This paper considers teacher resilience from the viewpoint of a discipline concerned with the interactions between work design, management style and employee health and well-being: occupational health psychology. It will be suggested that there are strong parallels between interventions designed to promote resilience and those designed to reduce…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Occupational Safety and Health, Psychology, Intervention
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Brownell, Sara E.; Tanner, Kimberly D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2012
A substantial body of literature has highlighted many factors that impede faculty change, the most common of which are a lack of training, time, and incentives. However, there may be other barriers--unacknowledged and unexamined barriers--that might prove to be equally important. In particular, the tensions between a scientist's professional…
Descriptors: Biology, Professional Recognition, Educational Change, Barriers
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Kelly, Steven J.; Coughlin, Patrick C.; Novak, M. Mari – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2012
Over the past decade, human performance technology (HPT) has become an important source of rigor and application in support of best practices in capacity development. HPT shares common principles with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development best practices. This article explores HPT's critical role as the methodology of choice…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Best Practices, Capacity Building, Institutional Role
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Margolis, Jason; Huggins, Kristin Shawn – Journal of School Leadership, 2012
This article examines teacher leader role development and definition by looking at one emergent model of distributed leadership: the hybrid teacher leader (HTL). HTLs are teachers whose official schedule includes both teaching K-12 students and leading teachers in some capacity. Participants included six HTLs across four school districts over 2…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Elementary Secondary Education, Definitions, Teacher Leadership
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Malmgren, Carol; Themanson, Jennifer – College and University, 2010
Analysis of classroom use and utilization data provides essential information for strategic space planning. However, efforts to improve use and/or utilization metrics can be thwarted by ingrained cultural practices, campus politics, lack of understanding, failure to recognize the impact to programmatic needs, absence of a coordinated campus…
Descriptors: Scheduling, Guidelines, Outreach Programs, Educational Practices
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Phillips, Jack J.; Phillips, Patti P. – Performance Improvement, 2010
Although the need for project objectives is obvious, their value and role are much broader than most think. In this article, we explore the need for higher levels of objectives, along with tips and techniques to develop them properly. More important, we examine the benefits of objectives from many perspectives. In today's competitive environment,…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Program Effectiveness, Behavioral Objectives, Performance Technology
Hatala, John-Paul; Lutta, Joseph George – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
Information sharing is critical to an organization's competitiveness and requires a free flow of information among members if the organization is to remain competitive. A review of the literature on organizational structure and information sharing was conducted to examine the research in this area. A case example illustrates how a social network…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Social Structure, Information Transfer, Social Networks
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Maples, Glenn; Harris, Bette; Greco, Anna M. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2010
Over the past 30 years, researchers have repeatedly demonstrated the need to improve academic advising. Nonetheless, at many Universities academic advising remains a neglected endeavor--poorly measured, managed and rewarded. This paper considers the implementation of an academic advising program which parallels the 360-Degree feedback approach…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Program Improvement, Program Implementation, Feedback (Response)
Wilson-Ahlstrom, Alicia; Yohalem, Nicole – Forum for Youth Investment, 2007
Quality is fast becoming a policy priority in states and localities around the country. As a result, formal and informal networks of youth organizations are seeking and developing strategies to help them assess and improve performance. This report takes a close look at efforts underway in three networks and provides a preliminary framework for…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Improvement Programs, Change Strategies, Strategic Planning
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Mayrowetz, David; Smylie, Mark A. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2004
Over the past two decades, scholars and practitioners in a variety of industries have considered work redesign among a constellation of strategies to promote employee recruitment and retention, development, motivation, and performance. Although educational policymakers in the middle to late 1990s shifted their attention to standards, systemic…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Leadership, Job Analysis, Job Simplification