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Download full textUmble, Karl E. – 1995
The Planned Approach to Community Health (PATCH) program was designed by the Centers for Disease Control as a tool to help communities plan, implement, and evaluate health promotion and health education programs. PATCH consists of three components: community mobilization, community diagnosis, and community intervention. The implementation of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Community Change
Klimes, Rudolf E. – 1991
A survey in education describes the present condition of an educational program and forms the basis for knowing what is happening in a particular school. This volume is intended to be a practical guide to school surveying in South Korea, but not a scholarly thesis on surveys. The emphasis is on field studies and how surveyors can perform a school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Business, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Collection
Dawson, George – 1998
A professor of science education at Florida State University shares his experiences with the growth of the field of environmental education and the problems inherent in trying to teach formal environmental education outdoors. Although field experience is best, it must be limited in most situations since logistics get in the way. Technology can…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Field Studies
Policy Research Brief, 1991
This Policy Research Brief explores the strengths of qualitative research and the types of information it can make available to policymakers concerned with issues affecting persons with disabilities. The naturalistic methodology employed in qualitative research is described. Three specific studies using qualitative methodology are excerpted and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developmental Disabilities, Family Problems, Field Studies
Collier, Don; And Others – 1989
As part of the Professional Development Workshop at Calhoun Community College, the Department of Natural Sciences conducted the third annual Spring Wilderness Pilgrimage in March 1989, a week-long environmental awareness field trip for faculty and staff. Designed as a study of the plants and animals on a barrier island off the coast of Florida,…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Community Colleges, Ecology, Faculty Development
Howe, Robert W.; Disinger, John F. – 1988
Research related to environmental education has consistently indicated that many students and young adults attribute a large amount of their knowledge of environmental concepts, problems, and issues to out-of-school (non-formal) educational settings and experiences. Data also indicate that students and young adults attribute much of their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Field Studies
Adams, Harold S.; Lipford, Michael L. – 1987
Extended field trips have the potential to provide students with direct experience in learning about the natural world, as well as opportunities for the development of group cohesiveness. This document describes a program developed by a community college in which general biology students spend 3 days in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The…
Descriptors: Biology, Camping, College Science, Ecology
Moore-West, Maggi; Lucero, Susan – 1983
Personality and a social support system are two factors that may influence women medical students' choice of a rural primary care specialty. The 2-year study of 11 University of New Mexico School of Medicine women students engaged in 4-month rural primary care preceptorships included interviews and a personality inventory. Three women had…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Community Attitudes, Females, Field Studies
Asano, Mildred M. – 1975
This report, representing the second half of a comprehensive study, presents descriptive data on the structure, functions, and services of the Social Services Component in Title IV-A Day Care in Philadelphia. Data were based on extensive interviews with 67 respondents representing 35 agencies. Two interviews, one each with a supervisor and a…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Community Surveys, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Stamos, Stephen C., Jr. – 1977
In this paper, a college economics professor shares his ideas and experiences related to teaching a regional economics course for seniors at Bucknell University. In an attempt to depart from the traditional content and the passive teaching procedures prevalent in such courses, the professor implemented a course in a regional, political, economic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Instruction, Community Study, Course Content
Hecht, Kathryn A. – 1976
Historical documents and interview data are compiled to develop a chronology of critical events used in studying the impact of the Applications Technology Satellite educational demonstration (ATS-6) in Alaska. This method of evaluation was implemented as a parallel approach to that of gathering data in the villages from Native informants and from…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Communications Satellites, Cross Cultural Studies, Data Collection
Gardner, Cynthia H. – 1981
Ethnography as a classroom observation method addresses itself to the situations, events, patterns, and contexts that exist in a classroom at a given time. A priori categorical observation and evaluation systems measure what the system is designed to "see," and may fail to record anomolies and salient events that affect teaching and learning in…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
Briscoe, Melissa – 1978
The project reported here was done in Kentucky to develop, field test, evaluate, and revise 300 competency-based vocational education (CBVE) instructional modules in five occupational areas. These areas are automobile mechanics, air-conditioning and refrigeration, court and conference reporter, alterationist, and gardening and groundskeeping. This…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Auto Mechanics, Competency Based Education, Court Reporters
Legacy, James; And Others – 1978
This study was the first phase of a three-phase study to develop, adopt, and implement competency based curriculum for Illinois agricultural occupations programs at the secondary level. As a procedural field test, phase I developed an occupational matrix for one of the U.S. Office of Education agricultural occupation program areas (horticulture)…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development, Field Interviews
KLAUSMEIER, HERBERT J.; AND OTHERS – 1967
PROJECT MODELS IS A COOPERATIVE PROJECT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN R/D CENTER ON COGNITIVE LEARNING, LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS, AND THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. THE PROJECT'S AIM IS TO INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF STUDENT LEARNING AND TO FACILITATE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES BY REORGANIZING THE STRUCTURE OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INTO…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Classroom Environment, Field Studies, Instructional Innovation
