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Lindfelt, Bengt, Ed. – 1996
In accordance with provincial educational regulations, Quebec's community colleges have adopted "politiques institutionnelles d'evaluation des apprentissages" (PIEA), or institutional policies of the evaluation of learning. This report provides a synthesis of evaluations of the PIEA conducted by the province's Commission on the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Kraft, James A. – 1995
A business and education partnership model addressed a shortage of local, qualified, entry-level, technically skilled workers through a school-to-work apprenticeship program at the North Montco Technical Career Center in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. The research-based solution plan of the Pennsylvania Youth Apprenticeship Program (PYAP) included three…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Entry Workers
Equity Issues, 1996
This document contains information about the implications of the 1994 School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA) for gender equity in Ohio vocational education programs. Presented first are selected statistics and Congressional findings regarding the following: the disparity between the current enrollment patterns and educational/career plans of…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation
Kentucky Univ., Lexington. Inst. on Education Reform. – 1995
This report describes two studies on the extent of the implementation of the Kentucky Education Technology System (KETS), part of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). Study 1 was an external evaluation using 8 university field observers (names are given); study 2 was a self-assessment study using 47 anonymous district technology…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Assessment
Hutchison, Robert; And Others – 1995
A case study of school-university collaboration between Starkville School District (Mississippi) and Mississippi State University (MSU) explored the process of collaboration and the ingredients for successful implementation. MSU offered grant opportunities for university faculty to work with local school district personnel. Starkville School…
Descriptors: Administrators, Bond Issues, College Faculty, College School Cooperation
Hansen, M. Eileen – 1993
This handbook provides guidance for implementing orientation activities for international students at Middlesex County College (MCC), in New Jersey. An introduction describes the development of MCC's orientation plan, indicating that, in response to problems faced by international students, the college developed an overnight orientation and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Students, Leadership Training
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1996
The Illinois Workforce Preparation Action Plan was developed to set workforce preparation policy directions and improve coordination of programs and services in the state. This report provides information on the goals, objectives, activities, and implementation of the Plan. Following a preamble and list of the Action Plan Task Force membership,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Development, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship
Lancaster, Alden – 1993
The quality of a literacy program can be assessed by taking into account the following factors: purpose of the program, how the program meets the most important current needs of the adult population, if it is accessible to the people who need services, and whether the literacy content is relevant to learners' needs. Flexibility of funding also is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Students
Reynolds, Gail – 1995
The Parent-Infant Care Center, a component of the School Based Youth Services program, was designed to enable parenting students who needed child care support to continue attending school. This practicum project devised an intervention at the Center to address teen parents' lack of knowledge, experience, and skills needed to appropriately care for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Child Development, Child Rearing
Ravitz, Jason – 1997
The purposes of this paper are to: share insights into the development of online collaborative learning experiments; discuss the role of instructional systems design (ISD); and present examples of design components within an ISD-based framework. The model presented explains the people, processes, and products that are involved in creating online…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Davis, Kathleen S. – 1997
The Foothills City Youth Club (Colorado) is a nonprofit organization in an urban community at the base of the Rocky Mountains. Most of the children it serves are disadvantaged, and the club's membership is racially and ethnically diverse. The present youth club was formed when two youth organizations, viewed as similar in mission and practice, but…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education
Schaffer, Eugene C.; And Others – 1997
Major school-improvement efforts, despite planning, will constantly encounter a variety of problems (Louis and Miles, 1990). This paper identifies impediments to school reform that were widespread within both elementary and secondary schools with large populations of socioeconomically disadvantaged children. The paper identifies broad, overarching…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Leadership
Woolley, Rosemary; Odo, Tina; Keener, Barbara – 1994
Focusing on the Student Right to Know and Campus Security Act of 1990, this document presents the text of the Act and an implementation plan developed by Missouri's St. Louis Community College (SLCC). The first section provides a general overview of legal issues and student affairs in community colleges, while the second presents the text of the…
Descriptors: Athletes, College Planning, Community Colleges, Compliance (Legal)
Black, Neil – UNEVOC INFO, 1997
Experts in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) from 11 countries participated in a UNESCO International Workshop. The countries were: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, India, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Poland, Republic of Korea, and South Africa. Workshop participants identified a range of issues relating to improving the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Hutchins, Sally, Ed. – Trustee Quarterly, 1996
The three issues of "Trustee Quarterly" contained in this document focus on topics of current concern to community college trustees. Issue 1 for 1996 focuses on the policy governance model of community college board leadership, offering the following feature articles: "John Carver...and His Contribution to Community College…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrative Policy, Board Administrator Relationship, Community Colleges
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