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Alberta Education, 2009
This report presents the outcomes of the analysis of Grade Level of Achievement (GLA) data at the provincial level to inform the program planning and evaluation needs of Alberta Education as well as school and central office based administrators. GLA data reported to Alberta Education is a teacher's judgment of a student's academic progress. GLA…
Descriptors: Evaluation Needs, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Swain, William A. – Performance and Instruction, 1984
Discusses the systematic approach to training, how this approach increases training impact, and how it evolved and identifies the four components of this approach, describing three components in detail--pretraining briefing sessions, review of individual training objectives, and group followup. (MBR)
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Program Design, Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement
Fry, Betty; Bottoms, Gene; O'Neill, Kathy; Jacobson, Andrea – Southern Regional Education Board, 2004
Goal 9 of twelve Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Challenge to Lead goals is that every school regardless of its student population, location or surrounding economic circumstances has a leader who can work with faculty to increase student learning. This report discusses progress toward this goal since 2002 in the 16 SREB states. It also is…
Descriptors: State Standards, Accountability, Principals, Academic Achievement
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1992
Answers to questions most often asked about the second National Education Goal are provided in this document. Goal 2 states that "by the year 2000, the high school graduation rate will increase to 90 percent." Among the areas covered are school strategies to improve graduation rates, community and business roles, incentives to stay in…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Dropout Rate, Dropouts
American Vocational Association, Alexandria, VA. – 1994
Vocational-technical education (VTE) today encompasses a diverse array of programs to equip students with work and life skills. A widening skills gap in the nation's work force, coupled with the fact that only about 20% of the nation's current jobs require a four-year college degree, has made VTE more important than ever before. Research has…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Education Work Relationship, Educational Objectives, Educational Opportunities
Russo, C. W. Russ – 1995
This book is addressed to educators and work-place trainers interested in applying the Malcolm Baldrige award criteria and/or the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9000 training guidelines for program improvement. An initial section compares and contrasts the ISO standards and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), Higher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Management Teams
National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1985
This booklet contains examples of a number of different ways in which companies can support or utilize the new job training system created by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) of 1982. Described first are Hewlett-Packard's efforts to provide strong corporate leadership on behalf of the job training partnership. The second section includes…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Disadvantaged