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Zagir, Togtokhmaa; Dorner, Helga – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Competent adult learning facilitators play a vital role in improving the quality of adult learning programmes. This article thus explores common and core competences of adult learning facilitators from the perspective of key stakeholders, such as facilitators, adult learners and administrators. By synthesising previous international studies, we…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
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Badway, Norena Norton; Somerville, Jerry – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
The purpose of this study was to analyze what leaders of Advanced Technological Education (ATE) programs funded by the National Science Foundation believe are their most important needs for research information. Data was collected through a Delphi process, and results were analyzed through frameworks associated with program improvement initiatives…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Curriculum Development, Information Needs, Community Colleges
Cortina, Lenore – ProQuest LLC, 2011
General education teachers have limited opportunities for professional learning that is designed to develop their capacity to differentiate curriculum and instruction adequately for gifted students. Administrators' decisions related to professional learning for general education teachers in gifted education are influenced by many factors. This…
Descriptors: Expertise, General Education, School Administration, Administration
McFadyen, Don – 1981
In order to explore the possibility of basing the Ontario Library Association's (OLA's) professional development programming on systematic needs assessment, a pilot project was undertaken to determine the professional development needs of library workers in Ontario and to experiment with the Nominal Group Technique (NGT)--a means of providing for…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Delphi Technique, Librarians, Library Associations
Wheeler, John J.; Scheinost, Thomas E. – 1994
This South Dakota project assisted the Governor's Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities in setting long range preservice and inservice professional development priorities and identifying future planning needs of the Council. The project provided a prioritization of training needs in the area of developmental disabilities as perceived by…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Developmental Disabilities, Focus Groups, Higher Education
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Stewart, Henrietta; Davenport, Elizabeth K.; Lufti, Ghazwan – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2006
Public education stakeholders are becoming aware of the new and challenging problems encountered by principals and other school administrators. Despite a growing awareness of the importance and challenges of school principals, there is limited research on the in-service training needs of school principals in developing countries. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Principals, Educational Needs, Needs Assessment