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Incredible Years Parent Training Support for Nursery Staff Working within a Disadvantaged Flying Start Area in Wales: A Feasibility Study
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Bywater, Tracey Jane; Hutchings, Judith Mary; Gridley, Nicole; Jones, Karen – Child Care in Practice, 2011
Parenting programmes are effective interventions for preventing and treating conduct problems in young children. Up to 20% of children in disadvantaged areas have conduct disorder. Recent government initiatives such as targeting early years services to designated disadvantaged Flying Start areas in Wales have resulted in increased nursery-care…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Intervention, Feasibility Studies, Disadvantaged
Evaluating the Usability of a Spanish Language Drug and Substance Abuse Education Program.
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Toohey, Jack V.; And Others – Journal of Drug Education, 1981
Describes a Spanish language drug and substance abuse education program including development of a student activity book and instructor's manual and a usability evaluation. Traditional value gaming strategies were used. A pilot study in Mexico showed Spanish speaking agencies could use the program conducted by their own staff. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drug Education, Feasibility Studies, Foreign Countries
On the Feasibility of Conducting Randomised Trials in Education: Case Study of a Sex Education Intervention
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Moore, Laurence; Graham, Anna; Diamond, Ian – British Educational Research Journal, 2003
This article reports on the conduct and results of a randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a teacher-led intervention to improve teenagers' knowledge of emergency contraception. The trial was successfully conducted in 24 mixed-sex state secondary schools in Avon, South-west England. The intervention was popular with both…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology
A Worldwide Intercultural Network: Exploring Electronic Messaging for Instruction.
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Cohen, Moshe; Miyake, Naomi – Instructional Science, 1986
Discusses the Intercultural Learning Network, an international computer network designed to enable students from different cultures to work with one another. Questions addressed include whether it is technically possible, economically feasible, and useful for instructional purposes; what organizational structures are required; and whether it can…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Costs, Educational Cooperation, Electronic Mail
PLATO across the Curriculum: An Evaluation of a Project.
Freer, David – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1986
A project at the University of Witwatersrand examined the implications of introducing a centrally controlled system of computer-based learning in which 13 university departments utilized PLATO to supplement teaching programs and encourage computer literacy. Department project descriptions and project evaluations (which reported positive student…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction, Departments
PAACE-SETTER. Volume 1, Number 1.
Nossen, Robert J., Ed. – PAACE-SETTER, 1984
The bulk of this issue consists of five articles providing insight into various phases of adult continuing education. "The Meliorist Position as a Philosophic Base for Adult Education" (Gordon Clay Godbey) examines these questions about meliorism: should we accept as natural improvement of the human condition, the constant wars, the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy