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Direct linkBlack, Ruth Claire, Ed. – IGI Global, 2017
Student retention has become a difficult issue within higher education. As such, it is imperative to examine the causes, as well as provide educators with strategies to implement to improve retention rates. "Critical Assessment and Strategies for Increased Student Retention" is a pivotal reference source for the latest progressive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Study Abroad
Gore, Paul A., Jr., Ed.; Carter, Louisa P., Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2011
Offering a primer on action research methodologies and examples of practice, "Students in Transition: Research and Practice in Career Development" responds to a dual challenge facing career development educators--designing cutting-edge career development interventions and demonstrating their effectiveness. Overviews of quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Program Design, Action Research, Research Methodology, Apprenticeships
Suárez-Orozco, Carola, Ed.; Osei-Twumasi, Olivia, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2019
This groundbreaking volume is the first to concentrate specifically on the experiences, challenges, and triumphs of immigrant-origin community college students. Drawing on data from the Research on Immigrants in Community College Study (RICC), chapters highlight the unique needs of these students, the role of classrooms and campus settings,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Experience
Download full textCarneiro, Roberto, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2011
The New Opportunities Initiative (NOI) is a Portuguese flagship programme to recognise and accredit prior learning (RPL, APL) and to endow low-skilled adults with upper secondary qualifications, which is defined as the minimum entry threshold to the exercise of a full citizenship in a knowledge-rich society. NOI's major achievement has been its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Prior Learning, Program Effectiveness, Certification
Horsfall, Chris, Ed. – 2001
This document contains five papers examining the meaning and operation of leadership as a variable affecting student achievement in further education colleges in the United Kingdom. "Introduction" (Chris Horsfall) discusses school effectiveness studies' findings regarding the relationship between leadership and effective schools,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role
Alkin, Marvin; And Others – 1984
After outlining the 1984 activities and results of the Center for the Study of Evaluation's (CSE's) Evaluation Productivity Project, this monograph presents three reports. The first, "The Administrator's Role in Evaluation Use," by James Burry, Marvin C. Alkin, and Joan A. Ruskus, describes the factors influencing an evaluation's use…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates
Curtis, Patrick A., Ed.; Dale, Grady, Jr., Ed.; Kendall, Joshua C., Ed. – 1999
Noting that one of the biggest obstacles to reforming the foster care system has been the relative unavailability of research data from the field, this book provides an overview of the current state of foster care, describes the special needs of children living in foster care, and identifies policies and practices that address the foster care…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Caseworker Approach, Child Welfare
2000
This document contains 18 papers from the human resource development and manpower training section of an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The following papers are included: "Use of Social and Economic Modeling to Plan Vocational Education and Training"…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Computer Uses in Education
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on using technology for learning that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "Openness to Technology in Virtual Teams: Implications for International Human Resource Development" (Mary R. Watson, Leigh Anne Liu) reports on a study that examined the attitudes of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Attitudes, Educational Technology
2001
This document contains four papers on organizational enhancement and human resource development (HRD). "Motivation to Improve Work through Learning in Human Resource Development" (Sharon S. Naquin, Elwood F. Holton III) argues that HRD's traditional conceptualization of motivation should be expanded to incorporate motivation to use…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Educational Attitudes, Employee Absenteeism, Employee Attitudes
Gregory, Sheila T., Ed. – 2000
This book presents a collection of papers by educators and researchers who discuss various methods of improving minority student achievement. The 19 chapters highlight the achievement of students from kindergarten through college as follows: (1) "Discrepancies between Aspirations and Preparation of Low SES Elementary Students" (Dianne L.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Asian American Students, Black Students
