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Office of Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2016
The National Reporting System (NRS) is the accountability system for the federally funded, State-administered adult education program. It addresses the accountability requirements of the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, Title II of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA-P.L.105-220). This document presents (1) the NRS measures that allow…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Accountability, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Ahmed, Susan; Barbett, Samuel; Carr, Peggy; Frase, Mary; Hoffman, Lee; Kasprzyk, Daniel; Kolstad, Andrew; Owings, Jeffrey; Snyder, Tom – 1997
The Task Force on Quality Control of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) was created to study the quality control procedures used for NCES publications and to determine if there are ways to improve the current procedures. Because a detailed review of the entire survey process would have been too time consuming, the Task Force…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Databases, Educational Trends
Queeney, Donna S.; And Others – 1981
This report is the most current installment in the series on professional and occupational practice requirements in the state of Pennsylvania. It is part of a study of licensing and continuing education requirements of 75 occupations. All information on the professions and occupations addressed earlier has been revised as necessary to reflect…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Certification, Continuing Education, Credentials
Advanced Technology, Inc., McLean, VA. – 1982
The research methodology of a study to assess 1980-1981 award accuracy of the Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (BEOG), or Pell grants, is described. The study is the first stage of a three-stage quality control project. During the spring of 1981 a nationally representative sample of 305 public, private, and proprietary institutions was…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Students, Confidential Records, Data Collection
Smart, John C., Ed. – 1992
Ten papers on theory and research in higher education have the following titles and authors: "Collegiality: Toward a Clarification of Meaning and Function" (James L. Bess); "Quality by Design: Toward a Framework for Academic Quality Management" (David D. Dill); "Beyond 'the State': Interorganizational Relations and State…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, College Administration, College Curriculum, College Faculty
Elliott, Geoffrey – 1996
The impact of government policy initiatives on public-sector further education (FE) and FE lecturers in the United Kingdom was examined through a case study of a small group of full-time creative arts lecturers at a large urban FE college. A qualitative research approach was used. Data were collected through the following methods: participant…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Education, Case Studies, Educational Change
Medel-Anonuevo, Carolyn, Ed. – 1999
This document contains 14 papers that were developed for a 5-day international seminar-workshop at which representatives of multilateral agencies, governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), women's organizations, feminist groups, and universities discussed gender issues in monitoring and evaluation of adult education. The following papers…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Development