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Brandon, Paul R.; Young, Donald B.; Shavelson, Richard J.; Jones, Rachael; Ayala, Carlos C.; Ruiz-Primo, Maria Araceli; Yin, Yue; Tomita, Miki K.; Furtak, Erin Marie – Applied Measurement in Education, 2008
Our project to embed formative student assessments in the Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching curriculum required a close collaboration between curriculum developers at the Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) and assessment developers at the Stanford Educational Assessment Laboratory (SEAL). This was a new endeavor for each…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Program Effectiveness, Formative Evaluation, Cooperative Planning
Olivier, W. P.; Scott, G. F. – 1978
The Individualization Project at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) was organized on a cooperative basis with a federal agency and several community colleges. The main design goals were to produce needed courseware, move smoothly from research and development to a production mode of operation, and to emphasize dissemination of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Instruction, Information Dissemination
Dunn, William N.; And Others – 1982
This volume presents in one collection a systematic inventory of research and analytic procedures appropriate for generating information on knowledge production, diffusion, and utilization, gathered by the University of Pittsburgh Program for the Study of Knowledge Use. The main concern is with those procedures that focus on the utilization of…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Diffusion (Communication), Educational Policy, Instructional Development
Dunn, William N.; And Others – 1982
The University of Pittsburgh Program for the Study of Knowledge Use is conducting methodological research on knowledge use and school improvement. The Pittsburgh Program, established in 1978, is an interdisciplinary program designed to conduct research, provide instruction, and offer technical services. Specifically, the purposes of the program…
Descriptors: Diffusion (Communication), Educational Improvement, Educational Policy, Information Needs
Cohen, Michael; And Others – 1980
As part of the National Institute of Education's Teaching and Instruction Program, the Research on Instruction Team has developed a program focusing on research on Instructionally Effective Schools. Such a school is defined as having a high mean level of student achievement and no educationally significant differences between different racial,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Research
Wilcox, Susan – 1997
This paper examines the evolution over three decades of the educational development (ED) movement in Canada. An informal history of ED was constructed, using published documents about ED and personal interviews with 8 educational developers who played key roles in programs and ED centers; e-mail responses were received from ten other developers.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational History, Educational Improvement
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Thomas, Martha Wetterhall; Hardy, Samuel B., IV – Business Communication Quarterly, 2005
Since 1994, the University of South Carolina at Columbia and the Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) have offered a joint master's degree in international business. Communication instruction was initially a stable component of the program, with a week-long course at the beginning and a…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, International Trade, Writing Workshops