Despite policymakers' increasing interest in how fathers and fathering affect the well-being of children, research into the roles of low-income fathers has not met the needs of policymakers, who could benefit from better understanding of the factors affecting fathers' continuing support of and engagement in relationships with their children. In an…

This study is based upon a survey done by the Office of Institutional Development and Technology and the Institute of Teaching & Learning done on the faculty of College of the Canyons who have taken at least one of the Institute's courses since it began. The goal was to get information that can be used for program improvements. Out of the 66…

This document provides an overview of the Yavapai College (Arizona) master plan. The plan reflects feedback from and discussions with various business, governmental, and education leaders in the community. It largely consists of recommendations for construction and renovation of college facilities. Many of the buildings at Yavapai are aging,…

To determine the different perspectives of faculty members and peer learning facilitators (students) at Eastern New Mexico University about the development of an improved freshman seminar designed to increase retention, a survey was conducted. The instrument required that participants rate the importance of 52 goals to the desired outcomes…

Local schools and school districts lack organized information on school effectiveness to select programs and practices to meet their specific program improvement and implementation needs. Critical program features, implementation and training requirements, program costs, program-delivery systems, program impacts, and a host of other relevant…

In 1996, the City of Phoenix Enterprise Community Job Linkages Initiative sought to increase employment by matching local people with local jobs. Evaluation of the second project at Friendly House found that Friendly House, during the 18 months of the grant, increased residents' employability skills and linked them with Enterprise Community…

The report describes both the problems faced and the strategies that have been implemented to resolve some of the problems in the Distance Learning Program at Tomball College in Texas. An examination of their Distance Education (DE) Program revealed multifaceted problems: instructor incompetence and curriculum inconsistency; student…

Discusses the goals, strategy, and outcomes of eight 2-day regional forums which focused on the role industrial arts education could play in cooperation with other groups to move toward solving some of our sociological and technological problems. (SB)

"A laboratory, a studio, and a forum, a place where the rational and the romantic can exist side by side, is the way the author describes the social studies classroom he wishes to see evolve. His provocative article discusses concrete ways of educating prospective teachers to become a vital part of this setting. (Editor)

Behavioral, educational, and organizational methods for improving the degree to which workers comply with the objectives of industrial health promotion programs are discussed. Compliance can be enhanced through: (1) better program location and scheduling; (2) increased worker satisfaction; (3) use of psychological and educational techniques; and…

In teacher education's current atmosphere of challenge, perplexity, and moral and intellectual crisis, there are at least three responses: (1) technicist, involving a strategic retreat into scientism and machines, laboratories, and computers; (2) Mandarin, involving traditional centers of learning among books and inspirational prose; and (3)…

Principals can improve programs by becoming science advocates (to teachers, students, and parents), constructing and pushing a science curriculum plan, ensuring annual funds for science materials, providing needed inservice experiences, monitoring the program, and handling likely problems. A 73-item checklist is provided for evaluating current…

This essay discusses the federal role in the improvement of educational practice nationally and at the local level, the role and influence of federal or other national program evaluations on local curriculum decisions, and the differences in role perceptions between federal and local school district officials. (CT)

The author suggests that the failure of traditional prevention programs may be one of the reasons for the rising consumption rate of alcohol in Canada. He makes several suggestions for improving alcohol education programs. (SJL)