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North Carolina State Dept. of Human Resources, Raleigh. Office of Day Care Services. – 1985
The feasibility of incorporating teletraining into a statewide staff development program was examined in a comparison of four training approaches: traditional instruction and audio instruction enhanced with either slides, videocassettes, or slowscan. The training population consisted of directors and caregivers from Head Start and state-subsidized…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Brawer, Florence B. – 1974
To develop guidelines for institutional assessment that consider the specific characteristics of junior colleges, student bodies, faculties, and administrative staffs, faculty members of three community colleges were studied in terms of demographic characteristics, values, and emphases of college programs. The three schools from which the subjects…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Guides
Johnson, C. Frances; Hales, Loyde W. – 1986
A study examined the effectiveness of the current inservice training process used to teach newly employed nurses at Bess Kaiser Medical Center to transfer nursing process theory to practice. Eighty-two of 102 recently hired registered nurses were included in the audit sample. The newly hired nurses, whose previous experience varied from less than…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Health Facilities, Inservice Education
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1991
This report provides information on the gender, ethnic, and racial composition of staff in the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California through the 1989-90 academic year. It is broken down into seven parts: (1) part 1 discusses the origin, preparation, limitations, and organization of the…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
McLinden, Daniel J.; And Others – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1990
Discussion of training needs of business and industry highlights a study that was conducted to compare the effects of a detailed instruction guide versus an outline format on instructor preparation, presentation, and participant reactions. Instructional effectiveness and instructional design are discussed, cost factors are examined, and further…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Industrial Training
Bialeschki, M. Deborah; Henderson, Karla A. – 1981
A study was conducted to ascertain the continuing education needs of men and women leisure service professionals in Wisconsin and to identify differences caused by gender. (Leisure service professionals were defined as persons employed full-time in administering, directing, leading, organizing, and planning in leisure service organizations.) A…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Attitudes, Educational Needs, Employment Patterns
Portwood, Derek; Naish, Jenny – 1993
This paper describes and analyzes general issues and examples of good practice in work-based learning relative to higher education in the United States, and applies them to comparable situations in the United Kingdom. Higher education has re-evaluated work-based learning to respond to changing socioeconomic conditions, such as the needs to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Corporate Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Practices
Navaratnam, K. K. – 1986
A study compared the organizational form and functional activities of the U.S. Cooperative Extension Service with agricultural extension activities in Sri Lanka and recommended ways of improving such programs in developing countries. Distinctive differences were found in the organizational set-up, subject-matter coverage, approach to clients,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agricultural Education, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis
Whinfield, Richard W. – 1976
This study, which grew out of increasing concern over vocational educators' tendency to seldom look at the "gestalt" of State vocational education organizational structure, shows some potential ways of looking at the vocational education system which have here-to-for not been attempted. This study also provides, for those who have not addressed…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems, Educational Research
Lassibille, Gerard; Paul, Jean-Jacques – 1994
This report presents findings of a study of the theoretical and practical methods of access to continuing vocational training. It summarizes six reports that compare the following: the construction sector in Spain, France, Italy, and Luxembourg; the banking, insurance, commerce, and administration sectors in Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Banking, Business, Comparative Analysis
Bragg, Debra D. – 2001
A study examined eight local consortia identified as mature Tech Prep implementers. The four-year research used a mixed-method longitudinal design involving repeated field visits, short and long interviews of key stakeholders, classroom observations, and document review and analysis. About 4,700 Tech Prep and non-Tech Prep participants were…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Articulation (Education), Comparative Analysis, Consortia
Kline, Judy – 1999
Many volunteer literacy tutors in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, have not completed their 1-year tutoring commitment. Consequently, an action research project was undertaken to determine the causes of the high tutor turnover and to identify ways of improving the tutor retention rate. All tutors involved in the program from 1998 onward were asked…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Goldsmith, Steve – 2001
Dual diagnosis of comorbid substance abuse and mental disorder is currently presenting great difficulties across Australia's health and community service sectors. Historically, mental health professionals have received relatively little formal education or training in substance abuse issues. A new curriculum on dual diagnosis was developed and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Analysis, Counselor Training
Comley, Les; Arandez, Leoni; Holden, Sue; Kuriata, Ewa – 2001
A study examined whether Australia's technical and further education (TAFE) institutes are currently learning organizations or on the road to becoming learning organizations. Data were collected through a literature review and a questionnaire administered to staff at two dual-sector universities, two metropolitan TAFE institutes, and two…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, Comparative Analysis
1999
This document contains three symposium papers on advances in distance learning. "The Adoption of Computer Technology and Telecommunications: A Case Study" (Larry M. Dooley, Teri Metcalf, Ann Martinez) reports on a study of the possible applications of two theoretical models (Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations model and the Concerns-Based…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Computer Uses in Education
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