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Association of Community Coll. Trustees, Annandale, VA. – 1989
Designed to assist local community college boards in understanding and implementing the recommendations for institutional excellence presented in the publication "Building Communities: A Vision for a New Century," produced by the Commission on the Future of Community Colleges (CFCC), this report reviews the background to the CFCC publication;…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Administration
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. – 1992
The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology recommends that the Scientific and Technical Education Act of 1992 be passed as amended. In order to improve scientific and technical education at associate-degree-granting colleges, the bill authorizes the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to make grants to institutions for the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Sydow, Debbie L. – 1998
This is a study of the outcomes of the professional development initiative implemented in 1993 by the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). It attempts to answer the question of whether faculty participation in structured professional development activities results in significant improvements in teaching. The primary objective of the study was…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational Research
Swanson, Dewey A.; Phillips, Julie A. – 1998
At the Purdue University School of Technology (PST) at Columbus, Indiana, the Total Quality Management (TQM) philosophy was used in the computer laboratories to better meet student needs. A customer satisfaction survey was conducted to gather data on lab facilities, lab assistants, and hardware/software; other sections of the survey included…
Descriptors: Computer Centers, Computer Uses in Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Care, Wm. Dean – 1993
A study identified characteristics and motivating factors that influenced licensed practical nurses (LPNs) to participate in a registered nursing (RN) upgrading program at a hospital in western Canada. A literature review considered the concepts of motivation, participation, adult learning, and life transitions and explored a variety of models and…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adult Education, Developed Nations, Dislocated Workers
Berliner, BethAnn; And Others – 1989
This state profile addresses the condition of education in Utah's rural and small schools, placing public schooling and rurality into their social and economic contexts. The "working definition" of "rural" is emphasized, that is, if people served by a school district perceive themselves as rural residents, then the school…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs
Butler, Jocelyn A.; Batey, Anne – 1990
This directory contains information about schools that are working to improve student performance through the school-based management process "Onward to Excellence." Over 600 schools were sent questionnaires asking for detailed information about activities using "Onward to Excellence" and about results of that work. Data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Smith, Christopher A. – 1984
This manual provides step-by-step directions for developing an inservice staff training program in a rehabilitation facility. The manual is organized in five chapters. Following an introduction that defines inservice training, the first chapter discusses inservice problem identification procedures (conduct a needs assessment and determine present…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Educational Resources, Improvement Programs
Michigan State Board of Education, Lansing. – 1986
A nine-member Future of Teaching Committee, appointed by the State Board of Education in October of 1985, suggests a sweeping set of recommendations to provide 20,000 new teacher replacements in Michigan's public school classrooms in the next several years. An overview is presented of the Committee's recommendations to the Governor, the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Crohn, Leslie; Nelson, Steven R. – 1986
Alternative models of rural school improvement consortia were identified through a review of research literature in order to determine what existing models were applicable to rural school consortia in the northwest United States. Organization structure of rural school collaboratives and characteristics associated with successful functioning were…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation
King, Alvy L.; And Others – 1984
The Ways to Improve Schools and Education Project (WISE) seeks to enhance school staff knowledge and skills through appropriate staff development adapted from local business and industry. Project WISE FY84 is an outgrowth of project accomplishments in FY83, which included a pilot test of collaborative school-business partnerships at three sites.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs, Inservice Education
Marshall, Ann – 1982
PRISM, the Pittsburgh Research-Based Instructional Supervisory Model, was initiated when the superintendent convened an Instructional Leadership Committee (ILC) to develop a plan for improving instruction and instructional leadership within the district. The Pittsburgh Public Schools' Learning Research Development Center then conducted a…
Descriptors: Administrators, Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Anderson, Shirley – 1983
Papers are presented which were generated by this workshop on school improvement. Both session and panel presentations are included on school effectiveness research, curriculum alignment for school improvement, a school climate improvement project, the McRel school improvement program, Pennsylvania's long-range planning for school improvement, an…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Environment, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education
Everson, Susan T. – 1983
Drawing upon research findings on school effectiveness, the McREL School Improvement Program was designed to examine critically such factors as school leadership, building organization, school climate and environment, and how citizens and parents are encouraged to participate in raising morale and effectiveness. Focus is upon instructional…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Chin, R.; And Others – 1981
This is Volume I of a two-volume report of a study on the exchange and use of knowledge for school improvement in three paired educational systems in Boston, Massachusetts. The pairings, which involved the collaboration of a college/university with one or more of the Boston public schools, were among 26 such collaborative arrangements mandated by…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation
