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Download full textCriteria for the Evaluation, Support, and Recognition of College Teachers, 1976
Institutions can give support to the teacher's place in the interaction of the teacher, the student and a body of knowledge through the establishment of a separate unit such as a Center on Teaching. This report identifies some tangible means by which such a unit can help teachers sustain and improve instruction. The basic services that are…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Change Strategies, College Faculty, Counseling
Welch, Richard O. – 1977
A five-year bilingual, bicultural program, part of the Experimental Schools Program, employed by the Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas, was designed to enhance the affective characteristics of the predominantly Mexican American student population, to train teachers to avoid socioeconomic and cultural biases, and to improve…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis
Stauffer, A. J. – 1980
A program implemented in the University System of Georgia to assist women and minorities advance in educational research is described. The program is one of individually guided research and each participant is free to select individual objectives, topics, research procedures, rate of progress, and outcomes. Program participants are predominantly…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Research
Menges, Robert J.; Levinson-Rose, Judith – 1980
Results of a review of approximately 60 studies relevant to improving college teaching are considered, and a proposal for a study is presented. The interventions can be classified into four categories: workshops and seminars, grants for faculty projects, feedback from ratings by students, microteaching and minicourses, and protocol materials. It…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research
Lindquist, Jack, Ed.; And Others – 1979
Lessons learned about the development of teaching improvement programs are presented in this sourcebook. Drawn from workshops, conferences, social consultations, audiovisual presentations, and brochures, this collection is intended as a resource tool and is directed at improving the educational process of colleges and universities. Chapters…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Community Colleges, Faculty Development
Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC. Bureau of Consumer Protection. – 1978
A non-experimental design was used to determine if scores of students enrolled in specified major coaching schools were significantly higher than scores of comparable uncoached groups. Score increases at two Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) coaching schools and Law School Admission Test (LSAT) schools were compared. Over 1,400 SAT examinees and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, High Schools
Smith, Carl B.; And Others – 1969
Environmental causes of reading problems and suggested programs which principals can implement are presented. Parental attitudes and behavior, the absence of books in the homes, lack of language stimulation, nonstandard dialect, and inadequate experience opportunities are among the environmental causes mentioned. Preprimary diagnosis,…
Descriptors: Classes (Groups of Students), Community Cooperation, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Innovation
East St. Louis School District 189, IL. – 1967
Project Challenge, a federally funded project in School District 189 of East St. Louis, Illinois, includes only those public and private schools at the elementary and secondary levels with the highest concentration of disadvantaged children. Teaching personnel for the project's in-service training program are provided by Southern Illinois…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Behavior Change, Educational Improvement
Dunn, Charles L. – 1973
The author reports on a program designed to improve the skills of staff members in recognizing, and adapting instructions to, the varied learning styles, abilities, and affective needs of pupils in an ethnically unbalanced "pocket of poverty" elementary school. The staff included paraprofessionals and teachers of reading, mathematics,…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Doctoral Dissertations, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Research
Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc., Seattle, WA. – 1968
The goals of the Opportunities Industrialization Center organization in Seattle include providing hope for impoverished and hard-core unemployed in the form of job preparation by providing adult education, pre-vocational training, skills training, counseling, job development, placement and followup. Another primary goal of OIC is providing and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Guidance, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged
Booth, David – 1971
Community college sociologists are unnecessarily isolated from the profession. Their careers will be enriched and the quality of sociological education will be improved, if a network of them is created. Funds could be raised to provide intensive summer workshops that generate the expertise and colleagueship to establish a community of innovators.…
Descriptors: College Administration, Community Colleges, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Ray, H. W.; And Others – 1972
This report represents an integration of analysis results in an interim report with those from additional analyses performed since. It is divided into (1) description of the experiment in which the goal is outlined; (2) description of the technology company programs, an overview of personnel, curriculum and materials, and incentive systems; (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Educational Change, Educational Experiments
Ray, H. W. – 1972
This report summarizes the principal findings for the O.E.O. experiment in performance contracting. The report emphasizes major results and conclusions to date. It is divided into (1) description of the experiment, in which the goal is outlined; (2) description of the technology company programs, curriculum and materials, and overviews of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Educational Change
Los Angeles City Schools, CA. – 1972
A total of eight specially funded programs designed to improve social and human conditions are described. These programs are Adult Basic Education (ABE), Adult Personal Traffic Safety (APTS), Emergency Employment Act (EEA), Industry Sponsored Programs (ISP), Manpower Development Training Act (MDTA), Model Cities Projects, Work Incentive Program…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Attitudes, Behavior Change, Educational Legislation
Strand, Roger; And Others – 1970
An attempt was made to gather information about working women and to learn what provisions they made for the care of their preschool age children while they worked. In the pursuit of this information, the following tasks were performed: (1) documentation of where and how children are cared for while their mothers work, (2) finding out what working…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Community Involvement, Data Collection
