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An Intentional Approach to Starting a Learning Improvement Project
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Laura Lambert; Megan Good – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
Assessment practitioners are well aware that evidence of learning improvement in higher education is scarce. A Learning Improvement Community has been created to promote learning improvement. Recently, this group created a "Readiness for Learning Improvement Tool." Given learning improvement projects are resource intensive, this tool was…
Descriptors: Intention, Program Administration, Program Development, Educational Improvement
Prospective Scope of Forest Management Education at James Madison's Montpelier
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Munsell, John F.; Hamilton, Rachel; Downing, Adam K. – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2009
Urban sprawl and intergenerational transfers are fostering a new period of family forest ownership in the United States typified by larger numbers of younger owners with smaller parcels that are interested in managing their forests but often lacking requisite knowledge. At the same time, there is a general decline in the public's connection to…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Forestry, Program Development, Sustainable Development
Evaluating Instruction: Developing a Program that Supports the Teaching Librarian
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Ariew, Susan; Lener, Edward – Research Strategies, 2005
As part of a move toward data-driven decision making, the University Libraries at Virginia Tech made a commitment to evaluate library instruction systematically. During the design and implementation phase of the program, library faculty developed a variety of tools for evaluating teaching, tested them out, and consulted with educational experts to…
Descriptors: Program Development, Library Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Academic Libraries
A Guide for Planning and Developing Guidance and Counseling Programs in Virginia's Public Schools.
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. Div. of Special Education Programs and Pupil Personnel Services Guidance Service. – 1983
This publication combines four sets of guidelines developed in 1980 to give direction to guidance program development in the public schools of Virginia. It consists of loose-leaf sheets color-coded according to whether the items are applicable at all levels (white), for elementary school guidance (beige), for middle schools (blue) or for secondary…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Child Development, Counseling Services, Curriculum Design
Planning: A Qualitative Description, Analysis and Evaluation, Phase I, Commonwealth Studies Project.
Boraks, Nancy; Schumacher, Sally – 1979
In 1978 the Commonwealth of Virginia initiated a three-year plan to develop basal fourth- and seventh-grade Virginia studies materials utilizing the resources of public and private institutions. The plan involved three stages: planning (1978-79), materials development (1979-80), and field testing and revision (1980-81). This document reviews the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Curriculum Development
Evaluation of CoTEEP Field-Testing of Workshop-Seminar Series and Principles for Summative Evaluation, 1984.
Schumacher, Sally – 1984
A formative evaluation was made of the second phase of a Workshop-Seminar series which is part of a projected collaborative teacher education program involving the Richmond (Virginia) City Public Schools and Virginia Commonwealth University. The intent of the Collaborative Teacher Education Program (CoTEEP) is to develop a coherent program for…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College School Cooperation, Formative Evaluation, Higher Education