The Youth Villages Transitional Living program is intended to help youth who were formerly in foster care or juvenile justice custody, or who are otherwise unprepared for adult life, to make the transition to independent living. Youth Villages, which serves emotionally and behaviorally troubled young people, operates a number of programs in…

In this evaluation, as in previous years, four main aspects of the implementation of the West Virginia Board of Education's Master Plan for Statewide Professional Development were examined: (a) basic information reported by providers about the size and scope of the effort, including attendance, and adherence to the newly adopted standards for…

Over the past few years, the focus group method has assumed a very important role as a method for collecting qualitative data in social and behavioural science research. This article elucidates theoretical and practical problems and prospects associated with the use of focus groups as a qualitative research method in social and behavioural science…

In October/November 2009, the Forum on Education Abroad conducted its third State of the Field Survey. This survey provides an annual or biannual assessment of key education abroad issues and topics of interest to Forum members and the field of education abroad at large. Previous State of the Field surveys were conducted in 2006 and 2008. The 2009…

This study investigated the adoption and use of practices in preparation and use of vegetables following adult classes in nutrition. Data were obtained on 63 Brazilian women through interviews, diet intake records, a pretest in nutrition, and a food belief inventory, and practices were compared on prior use, adoption, combined use, rejection, and…

The objectives of the study were: to describe the socioeconomic characteristics of the teaching homemakers and of the women with whom they worked; to indicate the influence of selected training on the teaching homemakers; and to show the training program input. Data were collected through the pre- and post-testing of teaching homemakers, and a…

An evaluation was made of the Tennessee Adult Basic Education Supervisors' Conference, held at Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee in August, 1970. Data were gathered from the 52 local supervisors in attendance by use of a questionnaire designed to obtain demographic data and participant reactions. The Kropp-Verner Attitude Scale was used…

Using interviews and questionnaire, this survey investigated aspects of the Agency for International Development (AID) training programs, participants' reactions, and subsequent uses made of training. Data were obtained on personal background and occupation, pretraining activities, actual program sojourns, and the aftermath. These were among the…

THE REACTIONS OF 6,000 BUSINESS EXECUTIVES TO FORMAL UNIVERSITY EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS WERE GATHERED BY QUESTIONNAIRE AND A FEW INTERVIEWS. OF THE TOTAL POPULATION, 80 PERCENT REACTED SO FAVORABLY THAT DIFFERENCES IN LENGTH, COSTS, AND QUALITY WERE ALMOST OBSCURED. OF SEVEN ACTIVITIES, THEY RANKED CLASS SESSIONS FIRST, THEN STUDY GROUPS…