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O'Connell, Bridget T.; Zirkel, Perry A. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2008
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the legal knowledge of Pennsylvania superintendents regarding summative teacher evaluation and to determine whether their knowledge level was adequate. Pennsylvania was selected for this state-wide study of superintendent's legal knowledge of teacher evaluation for two reasons. First, Pennsylvania…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Knowledge Level, School Law, Court Litigation
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Aibieyi, Stanley – Educational Research Quarterly, 2012
The Nigeria's oil industry has been criticized for some time now for its inability to render adequate services to the general public. This criticism is predicated on the fact that the standards of productivity in their services are low and that their facilities (i.e. the refineries) are not working up to capacity. This is evident in their…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Fuels, Job Performance, Professional Training
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Graf, Andrea; Mertesacker, Marion – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop recommendations for measures assessing intercultural training needs for international human resource management. Based on scientific as well as application-oriented criteria the aim is to select six measures assessing general intercultural competencies and with the help of behaviour ratings in…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Psychometrics, Human Resources, Personnel Management
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Hashim, Junaidah – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how Malaysian managers acquire job competencies through self-directed learning activities at their workplace. Specifically it aims to investigate what types of job competencies are required for the managers, how they learn to acquire those competencies, and whether the managers have the…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Independent Study, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies
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Cavalcante, Suzy S.; Nunes de Melo, Maria Clotildes; Carneiro, Nadya Bustani; Silva, Luciana Rodrigues – Health Education, 2005
Purpose: This paper aims to determine the knowledge that staff in day nurseries in Brazil had of basic measures to promote child health which are connected with high child mortality. These measures included breastfeeding, oral rehydration therapy, child growth follow-up, immunization and the identification of signs that indicate that the child…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Child Health, Health Facilities, Foreign Countries
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Robinson, Greg – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2005
For most of the twentieth century, the goal in education was the generation and dissemination of information. With the rise of technology and unlimited access to information, it is the ability to apply knowledge and learn from experience that is the new priority for employee development. Action learning, with its emphasis on action and reflection,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Competency Based Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Organizational Development