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Rosenberg, Julia; McDonough Ryan, Patricia; O'Brien, Caroline; Ganjavi, Fereshteh; Sharifi, Mona – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Refugee children are less likely than their non-refugee peers to receive timely diagnoses and treatment for mental and/or behavioral health problems, despite facing multiple risk factors including potential exposure to trauma during premigration, migration, and postmigration experiences. Social-Emotional Learning offers preventive mental health…
Descriptors: Refugees, COVID-19, Pandemics, Social Emotional Learning
Summerlin, Lee – 1971
A study was performed to determine the effectiveness of short-term, tutorial-type computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in selected topics in high school chemistry. To determine CAI effectiveness, post-tests specifically designed for this study were administered at the completion of instruction and sixty days later. Control group students generally…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conventional Instruction
New School for Social Research, New York, NY. – 1996
This set of reports contains materials related to a 3-year project to develop, implement, assess, and disseminate three interdisciplinary courses in the humanities and social sciences that were designed especially for adult baccalaureate students at the New School for Social Research. Included in the first report are a project summary, executive…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Bachelors Degrees, Comparative Analysis
Seagraves, Liz; Osborne, Mike; Neal, Peter; Dockrell, Richard; Hartshorn, Christina; Boyd, Alison – 1996
The Learning in Smaller Companies (LISC) project was undertaken to develop links between academic institutions and work-based learning in Scotland. The University of Stirling worked with Falkirk College and Clackmannan College to create a number of work-based learning schemes for employers in small and medium-sized enterprises. The programs were…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Case Studies, Competency Based Education, Conventional Instruction
Karnes, Merle B.; Lee, Richard C. – 1978
A game-oriented curriculum was devised to promote the cognitive-language and social-emotional development of preschool children from low socioeconomic backgrounds. The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, supplemented by Guilford's Structure of the Intellect, served as models. The games included such materials as card packs, models and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Conventional Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth
Illinois State Office of Education, Springfield. Div. of Adult Vocational and Technical Education. – 1978
Reported here is the completed phase 2 of a program designed to develop a comprehensive integrated system that will produce information for planning and administrating Illinois vocational education programs. Phase 2 project activities were intended to further develop and refine the Illinois Vocational Management Information System (MIS) and to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Programs, Conventional Instruction, Cost Effectiveness
Sakya, T. M., Comp.; Meyer, G. Rex, Comp. – 1997
This book, which is intended for practitioners and researchers engaged in education, presents a comprehensive account and analysis of the major initiatives and programs developed by the Asia and Pacific Programme of Education for All (APPEAL), which was established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization to promote…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Continuing Education
Leonard, Henry A.; Winkler, John D.; Hove, Anders; Ettedgui, Emile; Shanley, Michael G.; Sollinger, Jerry – 2001
The U.S. Army is in the process of implementing the Army Distance Learning Program, which is intended to improve training effectiveness and efficiency by substituting distance learning (DL) for portions of its current resident instruction program. To determine the potential effectiveness of DL in delivering military training, 25% of the resident…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Cost Effectiveness
Rickards, Joseph M. – 1983
A program was developed to train community school administrators in the Garfield School District (Panguitch, Utah) in the skills, techniques, and understandings essential for implementing and evaluating a successful multiple-option instructional program for adult basic and adult high school students. The need for the program was determined because…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Stromquist, Nelly P. – 1997
This book presents a case study of the MOVA (Movimento de Alfabetizacao de Jovens e Adultos) literacy program in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1989-1993. It examines the meaning and uses of literacy at the micro- and macro-levels, the interplay between both levels, and forces influencing educational policy formation and outcome. The foreword provides…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Nelson, Eugene A. – 1978
Prepared for State University of New York/Buffalo researchers participating in a state-sponsored educational financing project, this background paper focuses on the vocational education "program effects" of changing financial aid formulas and/or the rationale for organizing school districts and regional services. It scrutinizes the role of Boards…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Board of Education Role, Career Development, Career Education
Knapper, Christopher K.; Cropley, Arthur J. – 2000
This book, which is intended for academics, educators, educational managers, and policymakers concerned with higher education, examines how universities and colleges can prepare their students for lifelong learning through continuing education, specialized courses for adults, and mainstream teaching programs geared toward traditional students. The…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Articulation (Education)