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Bartik, Timothy J. – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2014
This book is the author's second book on preschool. His first book, "Investing in Kids: Early Childhood Programs and Local Economic Development" (2011), explored the connection between early childhood programs and the economic development of American states and metro areas, and compared early childhood programs with business tax…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Economic Development, Correlation, Early Childhood Education
Gysbers, Norman C.; Henderson, Patricia – American Counseling Association, 2012
Five phases for establishing and improving Pre-K-12 comprehensive guidance and counseling programs serve as the organizational framework for this enduring, influential textbook written for counselor educators and their students, school leaders, practicing school counselors, and state or district supervisors. The fifth edition of this bestseller…
Descriptors: School Guidance, School Counseling, Comprehensive Guidance, Guidance Programs
Chun, Dorothy M., Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2014
Although many online intercultural exchanges have been conducted based on the groundbreaking Cultura model, most to date have been between and among European languages. This volume presents several chapters with a focus on exchanges involving Asian and Pacific languages. Many of the benefits and challenges of these exchanges are similar to those…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Mediated Communication, Language Classification
Peterson, Patti McGill – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Comparative research on higher education in developing and transitional countries is often focused on such issues as access, finance, student mobility and the impact of globalization, but there has been little attention to curriculum and the forces that shape it. Confronting Challenges to the Liberal Arts Curriculum fills an important gap in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Liberal Arts, Undergraduate Study, Curriculum Development
Easton, Lois Brown – Corwin, 2011
If you are looking for an organic approach to purpose-driven professional learning, this is the book for you. Award-winning educator Lois Brown Easton's latest work provides a compelling case study in narrative form, a chronological PLC planning outline, and first-hand "lessons learned" about how PLCs develop, mature, and sustain themselves. You…
Descriptors: Discussion, Intentional Learning, Inservice Teacher Education, Guides
Zedeck, Sheldon, Ed. – APA Books, 2011
APA Books® announces the "APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology"--the first offering in an new reference series covering core and emerging subdisciplines, the "APA Handbooks in Psychology." I/O Psychology is both a science/practice and an applied/basic research discipline. Appropriately, the "APA…
Descriptors: Industrial Psychology, Guides, Organizational Development, Staff Development
Hehir, Thomas; Katzman, Lauren I. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
This book presents lessons learned from in-depth case studies of some of our most effective inclusive public schools. The authors conclusively demonstrate that schools can educate students with mild and severe disabilities in general education classrooms by providing special education services that link to and bolster general education…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, General Education, Disabilities, Access to Education
Bringle, Robert G., Ed.; Hatcher, Julie A., Ed.; Jones, Steven G., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
This book focuses on conducting research on International Service Learning (ISL), which includes developing and evaluating hypotheses about ISL outcomes and measuring its impact on students, faculty, and communities. The book argues that rigorous research is essential to improving the quality of ISL's implementation and delivery, and providing the…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Development, Research Design, Program Design
Friedman, Daniel B. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2012
"The First-Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Support Student Learning and Success," a five-volume series, is designed to assist educators who are interested in launching a first-year seminar or revamping an existing program. Each volume examines a different aspect of first-year seminar design or…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Instructional Design, Instructional Development, Curriculum Implementation
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Jager, Sake, Ed.; Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Meima, Estelle J., Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2014
The theme of EUROCALL 2014 was "CALL Design: Principles and Practice," which attracted approximately 280 practitioners, researchers and students from computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and related disciplines of more than 40 different nationalities. Over 170 presentations were delivered on topics related to this overarching…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Groccia, James; Hunter, Mary Stuart – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2012
"The First-Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Support Student Learning and Success," a five-volume series, is designed to assist educators who are interested in launching a firstyear seminar or revamping an existing program. Each volume examines a different aspect of first-year seminar design or…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Program Design, Program Implementation, Success
Sandrock, Paul – American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2010
Students continually ask, "Does this count?" "Is this on the test?" They want to know how they'll be evaluated. Discover how to answer these questions in ways that shape student learning and keep teaching focused on what really matters. Written by language expert Paul Sandrock, this superb manual clarifies precisely what…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Performance Based Assessment, Program Design
Cohen, Mary Riggs – Brookes Publishing Company, 2011
All adults need strong social skills to find and keep a job, establish relationships, and participate fully in adult life--but building these skills can be a special challenge for people with autism, Asperger syndrome, nonverbal learning disorder, social anxiety, and other disorders affecting social learning. Give them the essential support they…
Descriptors: Socialization, Seminars, Autism, Asperger Syndrome
Latino, Jennifer A.; Ashcraft, Michelle – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2012
"The First-Year Seminar: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing Courses to Support Student Learning and Success," a five-volume series, is designed to assist educators who are interested in launching a first-year seminar or revamping an existing program. Each volume examines a different aspect of first-year seminar design or…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, National Surveys, Peer Influence, Peer Relationship
Fraser, Mark W.; Richman, Jack M.; Galinsky, Maeda J.; Day, Steven H. – Oxford University Press, 2009
When social workers draw on experience, theory, or data in order to develop new strategies or enhance existing ones, they are conducting intervention research. This relatively new field involves program design, implementation, and evaluation and requires a theory-based, systematic approach. "Intervention Research" presents such a…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Program Design, Intervention
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