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Hannum, Kelly M., Ed.; Martineau, Jennifer W., Ed.; Reinelt, Claire, Ed. – Center for Creative Leadership (NJ3), 2007
With the increase in the number of organizational leadership development programs, there is a pressing need for evaluation to answer important questions, improve practice, and inform decisions. The Handbook is a comprehensive resource filled with examples, tools, and the most innovative models and approaches designed to evaluate leadership…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Systems Approach, Social Change, Youth Leaders
Brock, Barbara L.; Grady; Marilyn L. – Corwin Press, 2005
Imagine someone telling you that, within three years, new teachers would leave the profession for which they trained so hard. That is what is happening to 30% of today's promising new teachers who are not given the mentoring, direction, and professional development that is so desperately needed to keep them focused and enthusiastic. To handle this…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Mentors, Developmental Programs, Classroom Techniques
Gore, Paul A., Jr., Ed.; Carter, Louisa P., Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2011
Offering a primer on action research methodologies and examples of practice, "Students in Transition: Research and Practice in Career Development" responds to a dual challenge facing career development educators--designing cutting-edge career development interventions and demonstrating their effectiveness. Overviews of quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Program Design, Action Research, Research Methodology, Apprenticeships
Mellow, Gail O.; Heelan, Cynthia – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008
Community college leaders need honest information about what's working in the community college and need to be challenged about the things that are not. State Legislatures and Congress need updated facts to assist them in making wise funding decisions. Community college advocates need updated information to assist them in their advocacy work, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Policy, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices
McCabe, Robert H., Ed.; Day, Philip R., Jr., Ed. – 1998
This monograph addresses developmental education in the 21st Century, identifying the major issues and providing examples of successful developmental programs. The first chapter, "Access and the New America of the Twenty-First Century," emphasizes several changes in American society that have affected access to education and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change