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Gall, Meredith D.; De Bevoise, Wynn – R & D Perspectives, 1983
The two articles in this bulletin concern an experiment in progress to determine if training teachers in a structured program for mathematics instruction results in higher student achievement and if the effects of the program on teachers and students would be enhanced if the building principal participates in and supports the inservice process. In…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
McNulty, Nancy G. – 1969
This international reference guide to management education and executive development programs identifies and describes all major training programs, admission requirements, participant and program descriptions, teaching methods, curricula, faculty, costs, dates, and so on. It provides information for analysis and study of the international trends…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Agencies, Administrator Education, Continuing Education Centers
Jensen, James Otto – 1969
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the influence of democratic and authoritarian teaching methods on the efficiency of learning in a short, concentrated management technique course and to develop and test hypotheses regarding the relationship between these teaching methods and the factors of instructor personality, student age,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Learning, Age Differences, Authoritarianism
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Peluchette, Joy V.; Rust, Kathleen A. – Journal of Education for Business, 2005
In this study, the authors investigated faculty members' preferences regarding the use of technologies as instructional tools in management courses. They mailed surveys to 500 management faculty members nationwide; 124 were returned with usable data. Respondents indicated that course subject and classroom environmental factors did not affect their…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Business Administration Education, College Faculty, Educational Technology
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs (DOD), Washington, DC. – 1982
Based on research as well as on the down-to-earth experiences which come from running a large military child care center, this director's manual provides guidelines for running an effective program. The guidebook, one in a series on the subject of military child care centers, presents advice on the following seven topics: becoming a center…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Admission Criteria, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
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Whitfield, Edie L.; Anderson, Robert H. – 1981
The professional growth of teachers and improvement in teaching skills are often the results of skillful use by supervisors of clinical procedures of observation in both inservice workshops and student teaching situations. The observation cycle for improving pupil learning has five stages: (1) pre-observation conference between the student…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Foreman, David J.; Dunn, John G. – 1997
The management enhancement team approach (META) is a team-driven management development program designed for managers within Australia's National Vocational Education and Training Sector (NVETS). META, which has been piloted at more than 70 sites across Australia, is designed to identify and address management development needs within the context…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
Beitler, Michael A. – 1997
The question of what determines the appropriate use of self-directed learning (SDL) as opposed to teacher-directed learning (TDL) for midcareer professionals was examined through a review of the literature on SDL, SDL in professional development, and through interviews with 12 midcareer adults in a wide variety of professions. In general, the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Career Development
Geering, Adrian D. – 1980
An educational training needs assessment for nursing and hospital support staff was undertaken at a country hospital to collect data for use in designing a staff development program for the institution. After gathering the perceptions of key hospital staff concerning the hospital's mission, future, strengths, weaknesses, and problems to establish…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Objectives, Course Organization, Educational Needs
DeCrow, Roger, Ed.; Grabowski, Stanley M., Ed. – 1969
An annotated bibliography includes 490 items of research or investigation in adult education, mostly dated 1968 or 1969. They cover adult learning characteristics, program planning and administration, learning environments, instructional methods, curriculum materials and instructional devices, personnel and staffing, education of particular…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Annotated Bibliographies, Comparative Education
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Skudiene, Vida – Quality of Higher Education, 2005
The environment for teaching management in Baltic States' universities has undergone profound changes. The factors involved are: greater interaction between classroom teaching and the "real world", market expansion, internationalization, and increasingly diverse students. The author reports on the survey findings from the three…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries, Management Development
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Tietze, Susanne – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2004
English has become the "lingua franca" of international business and management and is the preferred means of communication in intercultural and international encounters. In this paper it is shown that both the spread of the English language and the increasing dominance of a management discourse are based on a series of tacit assumptions and…
Descriptors: International Trade, Ideology, Cultural Differences, Intercultural Communication
Cook, Michael – 1987
This paper provides a commentary on the RAMP guidelines on curriculum development in the teaching of information technology, which were developed as a result of the UNESCO seminar on harmonization held in Paris in October 1984. This report is divided into three parts: (1) basic working assumptions for curriculum planning in the face of information…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Database Management Systems, Databases
Metropolitan Fund, Inc., Detroit, MI. – 1966
TO DESIGN AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM TO ALLEVIATE THE SHORTAGE OF COMPETENT PERSONNEL FOR TOP LEVEL POSITIONS IN LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT, THE INTER-UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE (MICHIGAN) EXPLORED (1) THE FEASIBILITY OF A MID-CAREER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM, PARTICULARLY IN THE DETROIT METROPOLITAN AREA, (2) THE NATURE OF THE "KNOWLEDGES" REQUIRED OF…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Core Curriculum, Credits, Decision Making
Scheer, Wilbert E. – 1969
This handbook for personnel directors is designed to help improve the acquisition, selection, development, welfare, and general administration and control of business and industrial employees. Overall objectives and functions of personnel management are considered first. Part 2 (Employment) stresses advance planning; recruiting and interviewing;…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Audiovisual Aids, Educational Methods, Employees
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