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Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Curriculum Standards Branch. – 1995
Off-campus education is an experiential method of learning that integrates a student's classroom studies with on-the-job experiences obtained at an employing organization. Off-campus education programs are based on a partnership among the school, the parents, the student, and the employing organization, with each of the partners sharing the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Innovation, Educational Methods
Rawlinson, S. – 1996
This document, designed for employers in England, provides an overview of further education (FE) opportunities, enrollments, and developments/trends throughout the United Kingdom. Section 1, which is basically an overview of the FE system, examines the following questions: why FE is important; what links exist between employers and FE colleges…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Opportunities
Fertman, Carl I.; And Others – 1995
The Learn and Serve Grant Program was designed to support schools and community-based organizations (CBOs) that engage children and adolescents in service activities linked to the school curriculum that address real community needs. An evaluation covered 93 Pennsylvania schools and CBOs that received funding to design and implement programs.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Organizations, Community Services, Cooperative Programs
Friedman, Ellen G.; And Others – 1996
This book includes a selection of essays, narratives, and syllabi from the New Jersey Project, which, since 1986, has been pioneering the statewide transformation of the college curriculum away from the androcentric and Eurocentric canon toward an inclusive, nonsexist, nonracist, and multicultural curriculum. Part 1 describes the genesis and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Curriculum, College Instruction, College Role
Robins, Andrew L.; Russ, Sandra W. – 1995
The present study investigated the independent and combined effects of perceived parental support and social problem-solving skills on children's emotional adjustment. Thirty-six fourth- and fifth-grade children completed measures of perceived parental support, social problem-solving skills, self-perceived competence and self-worth, and recent…
Descriptors: Competence, Elementary School Students, Emotional Adjustment, Grade 4
Twomey, Janine L.; And Others – 1995
In September 1994, the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education issued standards for the State Postsecondary Reporting Entity (SPRE). To comply with these standards, New Mexico State University-Alamogordo (NMSU-A) decided to use its integrated Assessment and Strategic Planning (IASP) process, developed during a pre-accreditation self-study in…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, College Planning, Community Colleges
Hawkins, Linda; Lillibridge, Fred – 1995
In September 1994, the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education issued standards for the State Postsecondary Reporting Entity (SPRE). To comply with these standards, New Mexico State University-Alamogordo (NMSU-A) decided to use its Integrated Assessment and Strategic Planning (IASP) process, developed during a pre-accreditation self-study in…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, College Planning, Community Colleges
Cooper, Arnold – 1994
A collaboration called PACE (Professional Alliance for Collaborative Education) was formally initiated between the DePauw University (Indiana) department of education and the Metropolitan School District of Lawrence Township (MSDLT), located in suburban Indianapolis. The purposes of PACE are: (1) to improve the training of preservice teachers; (2)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Racino, Julie Ann – 1993
In 1978 a complaint was filed by New Hampshire Legal Assistance against Laconia Developmental Services, New Hampshire's only public institution for children and adults with developmental disabilities. The decision from the Federal district court judge in August 1981 ordered the state to devise a plan for: institutional improvement; development of…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Community Programs, Court Litigation
Messina, Robert C., Jr.; And Others – 1994
To develop a college-wide resolution process for dealing with student concerns, Burlington County College, in New Jersey, undertook a planning effort involving the faculty, student, staff, and administrator senates in the college's governance system. Rather than appoint an administrator to lead the project, a member of the staff senate was…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Data Collection, Improvement Programs
Grant, Jim; And Others – 1996
A multiyear, multiage experience, combined with what is known about collaborative learning, learning styles, and multiple intelligences, grouping practices, and the success of inclusion in such a setting, promises to give all children a real opportunity for success in the classroom. Many schools have implemented multiage programs successfully, but…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education
Newell, Sigrin T. – 1996
Practicality is the "Achilles heel" of alternative assessment in middle school science. This 5-year study of an "early adopter" school explores factors that enable alternate assessment to thrive in spite of practical problems. Interviews with five seventh-grade life science teachers and five eighth-grade physical science teachers who initiated and…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Schrader, Stuart M.; Assante, Leonard – 1996
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of an online student-facilitated health care communication electronic conference as part of a requirement of a health care communication course taught at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis in Spring 1995. Discussion focuses on the use of Internet components in…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Conferences
Grayson County Coll., Denison, TX. – 1995
A statewide evaluation of the mental health technologies programs of Texas' community colleges was conducted to determine the extent to which the programs use the principles of competency-based instruction (CBI) and performance standards and to establish whether competencies being taught have been evaluated in the workplace. The following were…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Denman, Paula N. – 1996
This evaluative report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) summarizes Department of Education actions made through April 1996 in response to 205 recommendations to improve the management of federal student financial aid programs. The report concludes that the Department had completed actions or had actions in progress or planned for 186 of the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Costs, Debt (Financial), Efficiency
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