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Making Quality Sense: A Guide to Quality, Tools and Techniques, Awards and the Thinking Behind Them.
Download full textOwen, Jane – 2002
This document is intended to guide further education colleges and work-based learning providers through some of the commonly used tools, techniques, and theories of quality management. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) various ways of defining quality; methods used by organizations to achieve quality (quality control, quality…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Benchmarking, Brainstorming, Colleges
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Olympia. – 1999
This document presents agriculture skill standards for programs to prepare Washington students for employment in the following occupations: John Deere agricultural equipment technician; agricultural and diesel equipment mechanic; irrigation technologist; turf management technician; and turf equipment service technician. The introduction explains…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Machinery Occupations, Agricultural Occupations
2002
This guide is intended to provide local agricultural education tech prep programs throughout Colorado with a framework for updating their own curriculum and developing articulation with postsecondary institutions. First, a primer to standards-based education explains the role of the following items in standards-based education in agriculture: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering
Saskatchewan Literacy Network, Saskatoon. – 2000
This document, which is intended for use by adult literacy programs in Saskatchewan, Canada, consists of three questionnaires. The questionnaires were developed under the guidance of Saskatchewan's 11-member Good Practice Task Force to give adult literacy programs an opportunity to reflect on their current initiatives, identify their strengths,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy
Basic Skills Agency, London (England). – 2000
This document presents advice from the United Kingdom's Basic Skills Agency regarding developing local action plans. The first 20% of the document defines basic skills and discusses the following action plan components: (1) an estimate of the area's need for basic skills training; (2) a target to reduce the area's estimated scale of need; (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs
Crabtree, M. Katherine; Stanley, Joan; Werner, Kathryn E.; Schmid, Emily – 2002
This document presents the nurse practitioner primary care competencies that a national panel of representatives of nine national organizations of the five primary care nurse practitioner specialties--adult, family, gerontological, pediatric, and women's health--identified as necessary for entry-level primary care nurse practitioners. Section 1…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adults, Advisory Committees, Child Health
