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Oh, Hunseok; Ryu, Hyue-Hyun; Choi, Myungweon – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2013
The purpose of this study was to develop an index to assess and evaluate the competitive advantage of a country's human resource development system. Based on an extensive literature review, a theoretical model of a human resource development system at the national level (named National Human Resource Development: NHRD) was constructed. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Competition
Stes, Ann; De Maeyer, Sven; Gijbels, David; Van Petegem, Peter – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Evidence regarding the impact of teachers' instructional development on student learning in higher education is scarce. In this study the authors investigate the impact of an instructional development programme for beginning university teachers on students' approach to studying. They also explore whether this impact is dependent on class size and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, College Students, Foreign Countries
Davis, Wanda – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The inclusion of college preparation programs promote and forecast academic success in postsecondary studies among individual at-risk, African American urban high school students. Past research has shown ongoing, college acceptance, performance, and graduation gaps between at-risk, African American urban high school students when compared to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Comparative Analysis, College Preparation, Urban Schools
Luo, Yuan-Chun – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study was intended to measure construct validity for the Outward Bound Outcomes Instrument (OBOI) and to predict outcome achievement from individual characteristics and course attributes using multilevel modeling. A sample of 2,340 participants was collected by Outward Bound USA between May and September 2009 using the OBOI. Two phases of…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Individual Characteristics, Adventure Education, Leadership
Rahikainen, Katariina; Hakkarainen, Kai – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate Finnish high school students' and teachers' perceptions of the effects of short-term Nordic study abroad programs in which they had participated. The data presented were based on a "mixed-methods strategy." The data set consisted of responses from 158 students and 92 teachers to a specifically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, High School Students, Secondary School Teachers
Development and Validation of the Cultural Competence of Program Evaluators (CCPE) Self-Report Scale
Dunaway, Krystall E.; Morrow, Jennifer A.; Porter, Bryan E. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2012
No self-report measure of cultural competence currently exists in program evaluation. Adapting items from cultural competence measures in fields such as counseling and nursing, the researchers developed the Cultural Competence of Program Evaluators (CCPE) self-report scale. The goals of this study were to validate the CCPE and to assess…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), Cultural Awareness, Program Evaluation
von Davier, Matthias – National Education Policy Center, 2011
The primary claim of this Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance report and the abridged Education Next version is that nations "that pay teachers on their performance score higher on PISA tests." After statistically controlling for several variables, the author concludes that nations with some form of merit pay system have,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Teacher Salaries, Merit Pay, Program Effectiveness
Houtveen, Thoni; van de Grift, Wim – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2012
In The Netherlands, the percentage of struggling readers in the 1st year of formal reading instruction is about 25%. This problem inspired us to develop the Reading Acceleration Programme. To evaluate the effectiveness of this programme, a quasi-experiment is carried out. The teachers in the experimental group have been trained to improve their…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Sentences, Foreign Countries, Followup Studies
Yuksel-Sahin, Fulya – Online Submission, 2009
This study evaluated psychological counseling and guidance services based on elementary and secondary education teachers' views. Participants were 204 teachers. "School Guidance Services Scale" and "Teacher Personal Information Form" were used for gathering the necessary information. Percentage calculations and multiple regression analysis were…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Regression Analysis, School Guidance, Predictor Variables

Giles, Steven M.; Harrington, Nancy Grant; Fearnow-Kenney, Melodie – Journal of Drug Education, 2001
Examined the relationship between students' perceptions of a problem behavior prevention program, All Stars, and changes in program variables-bonding; normative beliefs; ideals; and commitment. Three factors-Program Enjoyment, Student Engagement, and Teacher Relationship-were used to predict changes in four variables. Results indicate Student…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Measures (Individuals), Predictor Variables, Prevention
Perlman, Carole L. – 1982
The value-added model is presented as a method of assessing the impact of treatments in pretest-posttest quasi-experimental designs. The model yields a projection of treatment group performance at posttest time with no special treatment. The difference between the expected result and the actual outcome is "the value added," a measure of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Age Differences, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1981
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 28 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) a method of individually appraising the precursory skills of beginning readers; (2) the effects of instructing third grade students in interpretive reading…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Communication Skills, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Assessment