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Download full textBousselot, Tracy; Chadwick, Kristine L. – Educational Policy Improvement Center, 2017
The Quality Elementary Science Teaching (QuEST) program is designed to deliver high-quality professional development (PD) in science content to elementary school teachers. QuEST includes both content and pedagogical instruction combined with a controlled teaching experience situated within a larger professional development context. The design of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Science Education, Science Teachers
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This article explores a two-year professional development initiative with four state geographic alliances. Professional development planners, whether planning for a large- or small-scale initiative or one with unlimited or limited funding, will benefit from learning about this successful professional development activity and how the impact in the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Cooperation
Banilower, Eric – American Association of Physics Teachers (NJ1), 2003
This report summarizes the activities and findings of Horizon Research, Inc. (HRI) in its external evaluation of Rural Physics Teacher Resource Agents (PTRA) project. The report details HRI's work and findings since June 2002. The project is on schedule for going to scale with the rural centers model, establishing four centers in Year One and…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Rural Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
Fulp, Sherri L.; Banilower, Eric R. – American Association of Physics Teachers (NJ1), 2005
This report summarizes the activities and findings of Horizon Research, Inc. (HRI) in its external evaluation of the American Association of Physic Teachers (APPT's) Rural Physics Teacher Resource Agents (PTRA) project. The report details HRI's work and findings since June 2004. The report is divided into five main sections. The first provides an…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Rural Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
Trovato, Charlene A.; And Others – 1993
An evaluation was conducted of a summer institute on assessment in adult literacy held at the University of Pittsburgh. The summer institute was designed to enable program administrators and instructors to hear experts in the field of adult assessment discuss, in depth, the issues that are common to all adult literacy providers. Participants had…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Educational Assessment
Lucas, John A.; Soto, Linda – 1995
In spring 1995, a study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) in Illinois to determine the characteristics and perceptions of students enrolled in WRHC's Institute for Supervisory and Management Development from fall 1993 through spring 1995. Surveys were completed by 27 currently enrolled estimated for this study used K. S.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Community Colleges, Institutes (Training Programs), Management Development
Leske, Gary W.; Persico, John, Jr. – 1989
A study investigated whether instructors in schools with formal staff development programs were more technologically up to date than instructors in schools with less formal programs. The study used existing data from program evaluations of five postsecondary technical institute (TI) instructors. A survey instrument collected data from 120 (of a…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
PDF pending restorationBurns, Rebecca C. – 1994
This report documents a 2-year research and development project aimed at determining the effects of interdisciplinary teamed instruction (ITI) on teaching and learning. The study also sought to validate the effectiveness of a professional development model that would facilitate development, implementation, and evaluation of ITI. Through summer…
Descriptors: Action Research, Curriculum Development, Educational Benefits, Educational Change
Reed, Lester W., Jr. – 1996
In winter and spring 1995, the Western Center for Community College Development, in Oregon, undertook a 2-year project to develop the Contextual Learning Institute and Consortium to train teachers in contextual teaching, or instruction linked to the real life domains of students, and implement this methodology in a variety of subjects at the high…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, College School Cooperation, Context Effect, High School Students
