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The Serious Games of Racial Accounting in Schools
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Martinez, Martha Irene – Current Issues in Education, 2011
Educational disparities are frequently framed in racial comparisons that are based on data generated by sorting and counting racial subgroups. Our reliance on these data, and the sorting and counting mechanisms entailed therein, is fundamental to debates about racial inequalities. What is largely ignored in achievement gap discourse is how racial…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Race, Data Collection, Ethnicity
The Patterns of Change in Higher Education Institutions: The Context of the Changing Quality Assurance Mechanisms in England, Japan, and New York State
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Yokoyama, Keiko – Tertiary Education and Management, 2010
The purpose of the study is to identify the patterns of change in higher education institutions. It examines the contexts of the changing quality assurance mechanisms used by the different types of higher education institutions in England, Japan, and New York State between 2001 and 2007. The paper argues that there were no clear patterns of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Organizational Change, Foreign Countries
Development and Validation of the Evidence-Based Practice Process Assessment Scale: Preliminary Findings
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Rubin, Allen; Parrish, Danielle E. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
Objective: This report describes the development and preliminary findings regarding the reliability, validity, and sensitivity of a scale that has been developed to assess practitioners' perceived familiarity with, attitudes about, and implementation of the phases of the evidence-based practice (EBP) process. Method: After a panel of national…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Content Validity, Continuing Education, Psychometrics
Assessment of Critical Business Skill Development by MBA Alumni
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Glynn, Joseph G.; Wood, Gregory R. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2008
Six years of survey data were analyzed to assess, among other things, the degree to which an AACSB accredited graduate business program successfully developed student skills in a variety of areas deemed important for career success. The study illustrates a methodology institutions can use to respond to increasing demands for program evaluation and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Business Skills
Measuring the Attitudes and Awareness of Environmental Education Camp Users. Forest Service Research Paper NE-426.
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McCay, Roger E.; And Others – 1978
Questionnaires for evaluating what people expect from environmental camps and what they learned while there have been developed and applied at the Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania. Nine questionnaires for various ages and types of users are presented. The results can be used by camp administrators and educators…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Camping, Conservation Education, Environmental Education
Developing and Assessing Instrumentation to Reflect Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Proposal Development and Funding. Draft.
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Loadman, William E.; Cook, Desmond – 1982
The degree to which perceptions and attitudes about the proposal development and funding process can be assessed was studied. The study tried to determine if educational researchers had different perceptions of proposal writing, based upon the degree of experience in proposal development and peer review activities, as well as the sex of the…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Educational Finance, Educational Research, Educational Researchers