The educational system has witnessed a number of laudable programs since inception in both formal and non-formal systems of education programs that were set up to empower adult educational skills, knowledge, decision-making processes.Correspondence education transformed into distance education which--with the advent of information and…

Challenge the Gap (CtG) is a school collaboration programme designed by Challenge Partners that aims to break the link between disadvantage and attainment. The main components of CtG are: (1) after-school workshops drawing on published research and evidenced practice; (2) focused in-school interventions with a selected cohort of disadvantaged…

This report shares the findings and lessons learned from an investigation into the economics of disaggregated models for assessing and accrediting informal learners undertaking post secondary education. It presents some key economic and governance challenges for universities to consider in implementing OER assessment and accreditation policies. It…

This paper presents the results of a European-wide survey regarding the practice of foreign language telecollaboration or Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) in higher education. The survey was carried out as part of a European project, INTENT (Integrating Telecollaborative Networks into Foreign Language Higher Education) which was awarded funding…

A survey was conducted during 1979 to determine the interest in women's sports of Virginia Polytechnic Institute undergraduate students. The questionnaire contained three main parts. The first part, designed to be answered by both males and females, inquired about attending women's sporting events. Students were asked to check which women's sports…

Based on recommendations of the Harvard Report on Reading, a 33-item instrument was sent to a small sample of school districts originally surveyed to see the amount of implementation a decade later. Because only a small sample was surveyed, the states are grouped into seven regions. Measures of implementation based on the percentage of…

A survey of the academic officers of optometric institutions suggests that outcomes assessment varies substantially across programs in the areas of curriculum, scholarship and research, faculty, administration, and facilities. (EV)

The speaker, Executive Director of the National School Public Relations Association, points out the need for school public relations people to conduct surveys in their communities to determine public opinion about the schools. Such surveys are a base from which to construct a public relations program. Included in the presentation are some…

A survey instrument operationalizing 24 elements of professional performance was administered to 291 public relations educators across the nation, yielding a 43.6% response rate. Respondents assessed the extent to which a standard of professionalism currently exists for each of the 24 items. Educators tended to view writing/editing and…

This paper describes a survey of 394 school principals on the East coast concerning their attitudes toward use of research information. A 15-item questionnaire was prepared to elicit responses reflecting the influence of centralization of authority, strength of knowledge base, alternative sources of information, demonstrated use of empirical…

Preschool personnel (61 teachers and 34 administrators) from six locations throughout Texas were surveyed in order to describe the types of materials purchased and desired for preschool settings. A survey questionnaire was designed to address the following major questions: (1) who selects and buys materials? (2) how much money is spent on…

The 1970 International Educational Achievement (IEA) survey had placed New Zealand's nine- and fourteen-year-olds first in reading achievement in comparison with all other participating countries. By the time the 1990 IEA survey took place, however, mean achievement levels had slipped somewhat, and by the mid-1990s New Zealand's reputation was…

An ex post facto study involving a survey of exceptionally good and exceptionally problematic principals of Ohio secondary schools was undertaken to assess a method of obtaining a high response rate. The sample included 50 subjects (31 principals of good schools and 19 principals of problem schools), representing 7% of the 720 secondary schools in…

A survey was sent to the principals of all regular public schools in the Cincinnati school district in April 1986 to determine the distribution of instructional computers in the schools and to examine the relationship of computer distribution to other school characteristics. Responses to the questionnaire were broken down by elementary,…

A total of 255 reading teachers and classroom teachers completed questionnaires in a study that examined the use of the cloze procedure in selected schools in western New York State. The sample included reading teachers and classroom teachers in grades four through six and junior high school reading teachers and content area teachers. The results…