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Seitz, Fred – 1986
Designed for instructors at Beaufort Technical College (BTC) in South Carolina, this handbook provides a brief guide to competency-based education (CBE) and to the available resources at the college for assistance. Section 1 offers introductory comments on the concept of quality control and the five basic components of educational quality control.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Competence, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design
Willson, Laura Faulk; Anderson, Bill – 1986
A Contractual Education Task Force was created by the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges to study contractual education in the state's community colleges. All districts and colleges were surveyed regarding contractual education services offered between July 1982 and June 1985. Study findings, based on responses from 67…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Contract Training, Educational Finance
Boyd, Marcia A. – 1986
Advantages of the performance simulation setting are considered, along with what can be studied or developed within this setting. Experiences at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and views on future development and research opportunities in the performance simulation setting are also discussed. The benefits of simulating the clinical…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Dental Schools, Dental Students
Download full textGantt, Judy M.; Terrell, Edward L. – 1986
A study examined the impact of the Centers for Disease Control's home study course in community hygiene on the job performance of 45 sanitarians in 30 districts throughout North Carolina. Data were collected from: (1) pre- and post-tests that evaluated the sanitarians' mastery of knowledge in such areas as water supply, sewage disposal, solid…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Check Lists, Continuing Education
White, Arden – 1986
Empirical findings from reports appearing between 1949 and 1984 were studied to determine (1) whether research activities contribute to perceived effectiveness of classroom teaching and (2) to what extent good teaching and scholarly productivity contribute to salary improvements. Based on previous content analyses found in the literature search, a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Content Analysis, Educational Researchers, Higher Education
Bishop, John – 1986
A study compared different firms' methods of recognizing and rewarding employee performance and examined the impact of such recognition and reward on such factors as involuntary and voluntary labor turnover and worker productivity. Data from a survey of 3,412 employers that was sponsored by the National Institute of Education and the National…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employment Practices
Behr, George – 1983
The performance patterns of about 13,000 Asian/Pacific Islander (API) students in mathematics, written composition, and reading in grades 1 through 6 were examined. Student information was obtained through the Los Angeles Unified School District's data base for the Survey of Essential Skills (May 1982). Predominantly English-speaking, the students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Basic Skills, Elementary Education
Hutchinson, Roger L.; And Others – 1988
Clients seeking psychological counseling, who initiate service of their own volition, do so to obtain help with a problem that they feel afflicts them. Counselors' perceptions of clients' presenting problems assist counselors in making predictions about behavior from which they construct treatment plans. Research has demonstrated that incongruity…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Community Programs, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Attitudes
Cohen-Emerique, Margalit – Occasional Papers in Intercultural Learning, 1988
Difficulties in language communication and in understanding cultural differences, values, and the structure of the family are a few of the topics included in this paper on counselor education. Teaching professional counselors about working with multicultural communities and the culture of newly immigrant communities allows them to function more…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Client Relationship, Counselor Performance, Cultural Differences
Mikulecky, Larry – 1988
Focusing on the past decade's research, this literature review concentrates on what is known about literacy demands in the workplace and the abilities of various segments of the adult and adolescent population to meet them. The review argues that since a majority of adult reading is performed upon workplace related material, understanding the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Education Work Relationship, Employment Problems
Hyman, Randy; And Others – 1988
Assessment of student learning and development has become a national issue. The status of local campus initiatives was considered in a national survey designed to determine (1) the extent to which assessment programs have been developed or are being developed, (2) the objectives and source of initiation, and (3) assessment techniques. Emphasis was…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Deegan, William L. – 1988
An overview is provided of community college involvement in providing job training for industry on a contract basis. Part 1 provides background on the changing role of community colleges and the introduction of contract training as a means of addressing the growing need of organizations to train and retrain staff. Part 2 offers a national…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Community Colleges, Contract Training, Economic Development
Vocino, Michael, Jr.; Kellogg, Martha H. – 1987
This report presents the results of two surveys undertaken at the University of Rhode Island (URI) Libraries over a 2-year time period, one addressed to URI library student employees, and the other to their supervisors. Of the 171 students and 20 staff supervisors who received questionnaires, 144 students (84.21%) and 19 supervisors (95%)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Higher Education, Job Training
Ayers, Jerry B. – 1983
A study tested the hypothesis that elementary school teachers who were less authoritarian in their beliefs were more effective in the classroom. The independent variable was the California F-scale score of the 142 subjects (all education graduates of Tennessee Technological University), while dependent variables were measures of classroom…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
Lewis, Karron G.; Woodward, Paul J. – 1984
Teaching and learning activities that occurred in large university classes were studied with attention to the extent students are being involved and whether that involvement makes a difference in their attitudes and performance. At the University of Texas at Austin, 19 large (100 students and larger) classes, representing the college of liberal…
Descriptors: Class Size, Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Departments
