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Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Sacramento. – 1996
The California Master Plan for Higher Education charges the state's community colleges with providing general education for transfer, vocational training, and basic skills instruction to state residents. In response to concerns over low transfer rates, particularly for students from historically underrepresented groups, the Academic Senate for the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Governing Councils, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
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Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1992
This document presents effectiveness charts that demonstrate the impact of various programs of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District (AISD) on strategic objectives of the district and executive summaries of all reports produced by the AISD's Office of Research and Evaluation in 1990-91. The programs described in the effectiveness charts…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Olson, John K. – 1984
A preliminary case study used repertory grid and stimulated recall techniques to examine how teachers make sense of the impact of microcomputers on their work. Emphasis was on how teachers construe their classroom influence in relation to the actual use of microcomputers and to idealizations of their use. A version of the Kelly (1955) repgrid was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Hernon, Peter – Government Information Quarterly, 1987
This examination of the literature that discusses technological applications for the collections and services of depository libraries identifies areas treated in the literature and topics for further writing and research. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Decision Support Systems, Depository Libraries, Government Publications
O'Neil, Harold F., Jr.; And Others – 1992
The Cognitive Science Laboratory of the University of Southern California has conducted a series of studies on the experimental effects of motivation on a low-stakes (to the student) standardized test. This report summarizes these studies and their results. The test in question is the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). A series of…
Descriptors: Achievement, Experiments, Grade 12, Grade 8
Waterman, Shereen H. – 1982
The purpose of this study was to review and synthesize a diversity of research and classroom activities concerned with experiential elementary education. To make these materials readily available to teachers, a collection of examples of experiential activities, research, and professional writings was organized into four academic subject areas…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Experiential Learning
Lowe, Elaine, Ed. – 2001
Serving as a vehicle for raising the profile of and thereby gaining recognition for the important research and development work being conducted in Canada in support of children and families, the "Research Connections Canada" series compiles research and/or development papers as well as background papers, analytical literature reviews,…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Care, Child Responsibility, Children
Spears, Jacqueline D. – Rural Clearinghouse Digest, 1994
Rural counties are among both the most and the least ethnically diverse, conditions that offer different but equally compelling rationales for multicultural education. Diverse communities need to acknowledge their cultural wealth, creating community structures that respect differences and build on the strengths of each culture. Homogeneous…
Descriptors: American Indians, Anglo Americans, Change Strategies, Cultural Awareness
DiBella, Cecilia M. – 1980
Between 1965 and 1973 the Rhode Island State Department of Education underwent a series of reorganizations affecting its importance and role in the state's educational change process. These reorganizations were in part responsible for and affected by the selection of Rhode Island as a site for a Teacher Center pilot project in inservice teacher…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, Change Agents, Educational Change
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Austin, Mary B. – Computers and Education, 1994
Discussion of multimedia instruction focuses on a pilot study that compared the relative effectiveness of three interactive media formats in a DVI/RTV (Digital Video Interactive/Real Time Video) computer-mediated instructional lesson for a military communications system. Hypotheses tested are discussed, and the educational importance is…
Descriptors: Communications, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Environment
Satterlee, Brian – 1996
This paper reviews the literature pertaining to Total Quality Management (TQM) and its application in educational settings, especially at institutions of higher education. The review is organized into the following topical areas: the concept of "quality" (usually involving customer satisfaction, executive-level leadership, and employee…
Descriptors: College Administration, Curriculum Development, Definitions, Educational Change
Kjoernsli, Marit; Jorde, Doris – 1992
Science assessment has been included with mathematics and language assessment on the international level since the 1970s. This paper discusses techniques of assessment that have been utilized to measure science process skills. The first section discusses the Assessment Performance Unit, a British project with the aim of developing innovative…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, International Studies
Swain, Larry B. – 1989
Rural communities are often dependent upon their agricultural bases, which have undergone drastic changes. For communities to remain viable as economic units certain measures must be taken. Strategic planning can assist communities in assessing their situations and in developing plans and implementation schedules. Initially used in the business…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Change, Community Coordination
Brinkworth, B. J.; Eckersall, K. E. – 1985
A project was conducted to design and pilot a scheme for monitoring trade/industry/commerce technological changes and reporting them to Technical and Further Education (TAFE) teachers and authorities. A matrix of information categories was used to facilitate the collection and storage of information relative to technological advancements in the…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Bulletins, Data Collection, Foreign Countries
Becker, Henry Jay – 1982
Taking the current excitement among educators concerning the uses of microcomputers for student instruction as a point of departure, this paper addresses the problems and possibilities associated with the uses of microcomputers in the classroom and discusses these in terms of instructional techniques and the social aspects of integrating computer…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Curriculum Development, Drills (Practice)
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