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Kheirandish, Shadi; Funk, Mathias; Wensveen, Stephan; Verkerk, Maarten; Rauterberg, Matthias – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2020
Human values play an integral role in any design that aims to improve the quality of human life. However, only a few design approaches concentrate on human values in their design, and there is even very little agreement between them in identifying human values. Considering this, we created a design tool based on a comprehensive value framework to…
Descriptors: Values, Design, Quality of Life, Evaluation Methods
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Prabhu, B. Vittaldasa; Kudva S., Aditya – Higher Education for the Future, 2016
Student internship plays a major role in transforming the engineering interns to ready-to-use professionals. Learning at the workplace has become a challenge for the interns due to several issues. A knowledge gap analysis has been depicted considering all stakeholders of the internship, including the intern, faculty, institution and the industrial…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Engineering Education, College Faculty, Teacher Role
Stoker, Daniel J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This exploratory study investigated the long-term learning resulting from participation in a LeaderShape program. The research examined LeaderShape graduates' current practices and definitions of leadership to see if they remain consistent with the program's learning goals. Graduates with five or more years since attendance were studied to provide…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Graduates, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
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Thanh, Pham Thi Hong – Higher Education Review, 2012
This article proposes an applied theoretical framework that could assist education reformers in Confucian heritage culture (CHC) countries to adopt Western-developed learning practices successfully. This framework is needed because the literature has recently documented a large number of failures in educational reforms at CHC colleges. The main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Values, Cultural Context
Yilmaz, Haci Bayram – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A vast majority of the studies exploring the associations between student and school related factors and standardized test scores were conducted in developed countries. On the other hand, research suggests that the generalization of the findings of those studies to developing countries often leads to incorrect conclusions. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Standardized Tests
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Turnbull, Barbara – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2005
Educational research has contributed a great deal to current understanding of effective school-based management (i.e. Wholstetter and Mohrman 1996, Leithwood and Menzies 1998). Through this research, practitioners have been given guidance on what constitutes effective teams. However, educational research has yet to provide comparable guidance in…
Descriptors: Check Lists, School Based Management, Evaluation Methods, Guidance
Becker, Heather – 1992
Challenges faced in the evaluation of programs for the disabled are discussed, focusing on values orientation, key stakeholders, program structure, and measurement issues. Workers in the field are presently witnessing a fundamental change in the philosophy that underlies programs for persons with disabilities. Evaluators must be sensitive to the…
Descriptors: Community Services, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Evaluation Methods
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Hodge, David R. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2007
Cultural competence has become a central social work tenet enshrined in the profession's ethical and educational standards. Few measures of cultural competence exist, however, in spite of an increasing array of religious, ethnic, and racial groups in U.S. society. This article develops a new measure to assess cultural competence among one family…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Religion, Social Work, Evaluation Methods
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Evans, Gerry; And Others – Disability, Handicap and Society, 1988
In developing evaluative methods within the field of mental handicap services, evaluators should be more explicit about values they adopt and about lifestyles that services should be enabling people to achieve. An approach is described for evaluating the "All-Wales Strategy for the Development of Services for Mentally Handicapped…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Baron, Joan – 1977
The philosophy and assumptions of the Multi-Attribute Utility-Bayesian Decision Theoretic model (MAUT-Bayesian model) are presented. The evaluator uses the MAUT-Bayesian model along with the knowledge of the decision-maker's, and perhaps the evaluator's own values to decide what data should be collected. Appropriate data are presented to the…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Data Collection, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
Moss, Peter, Ed.; Pence, Alan, Ed. – 1994
Quality has become a priority issue for all concerned with early childhood care and education services. Starting from the premise that quality is a relative and dynamic concept based on values and beliefs, this collection advocates that the process of establishing definitions of quality should involve a range of stakeholder groups. The chapters…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Curriculum Evaluation, Day Care, Day Care Centers
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Gillentine, Jonathan – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2006
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the impact upon a group of ten early childhood inservice educators of a collaborative professional development course in early literacy development presented using the tools of narrative and reflection. The study considered impact in terms of teachers' beliefs, values, practice, and sense of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Audiences, Program Effectiveness, Social Environment
McKinney, Floyd L., Ed.; Harvey, Beth, Ed. – 1978
The valid interpretation of information related to the outcomes of vocational education is a persistent and profound problem of the profession. Some of the reasons for this problem are difficulties of communication, problems of definition, problems of collecting and interpreting data, and lack of documentation. The primary problem appears to be…
Descriptors: Definitions, Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs
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Greene, Jennifer C.; DeStefano, Lizanne; Burgon, Holli; Hall, Jori – New Directions for Evaluation, 2006
There is concern that the nation's schools are not preparing students to excel in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. At both precollege and postsecondary levels, much effort is needed to create and implement powerful STEM curricula, prepare and support highly qualified teachers, deliver effective instruction, and give…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Educational Experience
Stone, Elaine J. – 1976
The effects of the fifth grade unit of the School Health Curriculum Project (SHCP) were investigated in a multicultural setting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. One of the purposes of the study was to design and test portions of an evaluation model that could be expanded and used by other school districts which are involved with SHCP. The second paper…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Curriculum Evaluation, Economic Status, Ethnic Origins
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