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Stoecker, Randy; Willis, Catherine; Lersch, Art – Journal of Leadership Education, 2009
Those who work to develop and manage community-based leadership programs have long been concerned with how to sustain them--to keep them healthy and useful. But focusing on how to sustain programs requires exploring what sustainability means. This paper reports on interviews with 41 community-based leadership education program coordinators. In…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Community Leaders, Teacher Attitudes, Interviews
Visser, Talitha C.; Coenders, Fer G. M.; Terlouw, Cees; Pieters, Jules M. – Professional Development in Education, 2012
Schools are increasingly integrating multidisciplinary education into their programmes. The Minister of Education, Culture and Science has introduced a new, integrated science subject in secondary education in the Netherlands, called Nature, Life and Technology (NLT). This research note describes the design of a generic model for a professional…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Program Design
Lehman, Lynn; Quick, Marilynn – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2011
Internships serve as the bridge that spans the divide between being a teacher and an administrator. Most research on internships has emphasized the technical aspect of this experience, such as benefits and limitations of internships. The overall impact an internship experience has on an intern has been studied less extensively. This research study…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Career Development, Internship Programs, Context Effect
Conley, David T.; Drummond, Kathryn V.; de Gonzalez, Alicia; Seburn, Mary; Stout, Odile; Rooseboom, Jennifer – Educational Policy Improvement Center (NJ1), 2011
In June 2010, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Offices (CCSSO) released the Common Core State Standards. The stated aim of the Common Core standards is to define the knowledge and skills students should achieve in order to graduate from high school ready to succeed in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, State Standards, Best Practices
Kneer, M. Joseph, Jr.; Reiter, Jana; Shackelford, Beth M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This is a problem-based learning project that focused on a discrepancy in program content and retention rates between two-year teacher induction programs and induction programs that last three or four years. It specifically focused on the impact induction has on new teacher perceptions and teacher retention. The project also examined the influence…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Program Content, School Districts, Beginning Teacher Induction
Huang, Denise; Cho, Jamie; Mostafavi, Sima; Nam, Hannah H.; Oh, Christine; Harven, Aletha; Leon, Seth – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2010
In an effort to identify and incorporate exemplary practices into existing and future afterschool programs, the U.S. Department of Education commissioned a large-scale evaluation of the 21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) program. The purpose of this evaluation project was to develop resources and professional development that addresses…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, After School Programs, Program Effectiveness, Professional Development
Kezar, Adrianna; Frank, Vikki; Lester, Jaime; Yang, Hannah – Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, University of Southern California, 2009
This document provides resources to both begin and carry out the application process for an IDA grant. The authors offer some key advice to consider when applying for an IDA when in the education sector. They close with some challenges and ways to overcome them. The authors gained much of this information from an education organization's…
Descriptors: Grants, Grantsmanship, Financial Support, Program Proposals
Thornton, Elaine – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2009
iTunes University is a free service offered by Apple iTunes to educational institutions. It serves as a platform for the management and distribution of educational, instructional, and informational resources through both audio and video podcasts. Participation in the service among colleges and universities continues to grow since its official…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Database Management Systems, Information Management
Reuschlein, Robert W. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to create knowledge about peace economics content of Midwest undergraduate peace studies programs, barriers that constrain economic content expansion, and strategies to overcome these barriers. A 40 question survey of directors and 4 director interviews were used to gather data to test hypotheses on the curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Peace, Program Development, Economics
Popham, W. James – Theory Into Practice, 2009
In recent years, increasing numbers of professional development programs have dealt with assessment literacy for teachers and/or administrators. Is assessment literacy merely a fashionable focus for today's professional developers or, in contrast, should it be regarded as a significant area of professional development interest for many years to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Development, Accountability
Huang, Denise; Cho, Jamie – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2009
As part of afterschool programs with homework assistance, students are provided with a location and time to complete their homework, as well as instructional assistance. This mixed-method study investigated the program content and delivery processes of seven high-functioning homework programs. Results of this study revealed that in addition to…
Descriptors: Homework, Motivation Techniques, After School Programs, Program Content
Davis, Angela – History of Education, 2008
This article investigates how girls were educated about sex, pregnancy and childbirth during the years 1930 to 1970. Based on the results of 92 oral-history interviews with Oxfordshire women, it explores how national debates surrounding sex education influenced what girls in Oxfordshire were taught. In addition, it examines how successful the…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Mothers, Females, Pregnancy
Brady, Deon LaMount – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Parent education programs have been very successful in meeting the pre-established goals and expectations of their program without the input of parent participants prior to program implementation. Although programs continue to improve, it is important that programs begin to consider the specific needs of their target population. One parent…
Descriptors: Discipline, Needs Assessment, Academic Achievement, Parent Education
Leacock, Tracey L.; Nesbit, John C. – Educational Technology & Society, 2007
This article presents the structure and theoretical foundations of the Learning Object Review Instrument (LORI), an evaluation aid available through the E-Learning Research and Assessment Network at http://www.elera.net. A primary goal of LORI is to balance assessment validity with efficiency of the evaluation process. The instrument enables…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Alignment (Education), Feedback (Response), Evaluation
Marsh, Herbert W.; Hau, Kit-Tai – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2007
As emphasized in the call for papers by Jonna Kulikowich and Gregory Hancock, the primary goal of this special issue of "Contemporary Educational Psychology" is to assemble a collection of illustrative empirical studies in educational psychology that utilize one or more state-of-the-art latent variable modeling procedures. Distinguishing these…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Construct Validity, Educational Psychology, Models