This book is an effort to document ideas, processes, and outcomes based on input from many people involved in accountability of interagency collaborative services programs. The goals, processes, instruments, and reporting systems presented have been developed through a team process over a 10-year period of involvement with Iowa's School-Based…

This study uses data from a qualitative study of career pathway programs to investigate the incidence and type of organizational partnerships between employers, education and other agencies in workforce development. Findings demonstrate that education providers lead the partnerships, but that organizations divide into either peer to peer or…

This guide to Missouri State Government documents is intended to help information professionals and the general public locate electronic state information in a timely fashion. Only state agencies are included, with a few exceptions where deemed appropriate. The guide is divided into two sections. The first is an alphabetical keyword/title index.…

Based on the work of the National Council on Research in Child Welfare (NCRCW), this handbook is designed to help social service agency executives cope with changing times for child welfare agencies, strengthen traditional services to meet today's needs, and analyze and plan for the future. The manual aims to demystify quality improvement theory…

A group of teacher education faculty, state certification officers, and National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) staff share what they have learned from State-NCATE joint review and accreditation visits. In the state-NCATE-based approach, the NCATE reviews the operation of the units, and the state reviews content preparation…

The National Academy of Early Childhood Programs, a division of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, partly achieves its goal of improving the quality of care and education of young children in group programs through its administration of a national, voluntary accreditation system for early childhood programs. This guide…

The purpose of this guidebook is to assist education agencies and organizations--which include state education agencies or state departments of education, school districts, and schools--in the development, maintenance, and standardization of effective Web sites. Also included is a detailed examination of the procedures necessary to provide…

This report describes the scope and impact of distance learning on higher education and identifies the primary challenges that distance learning poses for accreditation. The responses of the accrediting community designed to assure quality in distance learning are outlined. Data from a variety of sources show that 5,655 institutions are accredited…

The text in this document was developed and released by the eight regional accrediting commissions in the United States as two documents, "Best Practices for Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs" and "Statement of Commitment by the Regional Accrediting Commissions for the Evaluation of Electronically Offered Degree and…

This report on best practices in outcomes assessment contains two parts: "Institutional Resources" and "Other Resources." Commission staff and consultants have selected several exemplary comprehensive outcomes assessment plans or components of plans from institutions that recently completed their decennial evaluations and from…

The participant's manual contains training materials for a national conference on mobilizing resources and fund raising in agencies concerned with promoting independent living for people with disabilities. Preliminary materials include the conference agenda, background information about the trainers, organizational information on Independent…

This paper explores the policy background, the arguments for collaboration between agencies, the barriers which may get in the way of schools and social services working together to safeguard children, and suggestions for how these can be removed. As well as drawing on policy documents and literature around child protection, education and…

This portfolio is a compendium of policies and procedures of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education that address the responsibilities of the Commission and its member institutions. It provides general accreditation policies, as well as those that refer specifically to the self-study and peer review process, the programs and services…

Distance learning challenges the academic work of colleges and universities as well as the politics of self-regulation. This, in turn, places significant responsibility on the accrediting community in two ways. First, accreditors must take the initiative in defining the differences in teaching and learning that distance learning brings in order to…

This report presents, in chart form, information about the accountability reports and indicator reports from each state. State education staff were asked to identify and update descriptions of all current state reports that provide accountability or educational indicator information for K-12 education. As of August 1999, all state agencies except…