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Download full textNational Association of State Directors of Special Education, Alexandria, VA. – 1994
This monograph summarizes outcomes of a forum addressing strategies to improve special education program evaluation efforts and orient policymakers, administrators, and advocates to the benefits of program evaluation as an integral part of program improvement. The forum also addressed barriers restricting evaluation of program effectiveness…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. – 1991
This paper provides a transcript of a videotaped roundtable discussion on learning disabilities among people in adult literacy programs in Canada. Panelists discussed several definitions of learning disabilities, such as processing difficulties, physical difficulties, and receptive difficulties. They debated the usefulness of labeling persons with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Educational Improvement
Corwin, Luene; And Others – 1986
This report reviews the program evaluation approaches used at three member colleges of the National Postsecondary Alliance (NPA), a consortium of postsecondary schools intent on achieving excellence in occupational education. The first paper, "Introduction" by Luene Corwin, discusses the goals and major activities of the NPA. The second…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria
Ontario Dept. of Education, Toronto. – 1991
This paper provides a transcript of a videotaped roundtable discussion on recognition for learning in adult literacy programs in Canada. Participants discussed the need to provide credentials for learners who have acquired various "chunks" of learning. Recognition was thought to be a motivator for adults even if they did not need the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Articulation (Education)
Corry, James, Ed.; And Others – 1983
A conference on implementing coordinated patient education was held for 45 participants from various health care occupations, including nursing, social work, and dietetics. The morning session of the conference consisted of lectures by patient education directors who described implementation strategies that they have used, as well as continuing…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Education, Allied Health Occupations, Case Studies
PDF pending restorationDepartment of the Interior, Washington, DC. Office of Library Services. – 1980
Preparatory and follow-up activities as well as proceedings are described in this report of a conference that brought representatives of 103 tribes together to discuss and lay the groundwork for comprehensive improvement of library and information services for Indian communities served by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Chapters I, II, and III…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Community Information Services
Inaba, Lawrence A., Ed. – 1996
These 18 papers were presented at a conference designed to share the diversity of ways that the Career Orientation and Planning Profile (COPP) is being used to conduct effective career guidance programs by selected career guidance educators throughout the United States. The publication begins with a brief tribute to Dr. Shigekazu Fukuyama…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Clinchy, Evans – 1984
In April 1984, more than 350 parents, teachers, principals and administrators from major urban school systems in Massachusetts met to define what an "excellent" desegregated urban public school system should be. This conference report, following excerpts from a keynote address by John E. Durkin, documents seven workshops which focused on…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bilingual Education, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Improvement
Miller, Greg, Ed. – 2000
These proceedings contain 48 presentations and 15 poster abstracts. Papers include "Computer Tasks Required in Selected Undergraduate Agriculture Courses" (Johnson, Ferguson, Vokinnns, Lester); "College of Agriculture Faculty Perceptions of Electronic Technologies in Teaching" (Dooley, Murphy); "Steering Through Turbulent…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Sciences
