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Download full textAxelson, Mary, Ed.; McGraw, Tammy, Ed.; McEntee, Sheila, Ed. – 2003
In November 2002, the Institute for the Advancement of Emerging Technologies in Education at AEL gathered education practitioners to help shepherd new assessments from the research laboratory to the classroom. Approximately 60 teachers and administrators attended the conference. The discussion focused on the possibility of aggregating formative…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation
Maryland State Board for Community Colleges, Annapolis. – 1983
Federal, state, local, and institutional perspectives on the financial future of Maryland's community colleges are presented in this conference proceedings. In the first section, spokesmen from the Brookings Institution examine "Federalism--Old and New." James Sundquist discusses President Reagan's "New Federalism" and its…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Federal Aid
Minckley, Barbara B., Ed.; Funk, Sandra N., Ed. – 1982
To increase political awareness and competence in the nursing profession, the papers in these proceedings identify political concerns affecting nursing and nursing education and explain how individuals and groups can become effectively involved in the political process. The proceedings contain: (1) "Update on National Nursing and Health Policy…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Medical Services, Nurses, Nursing
Katayama, Kumiko, Ed. – 1984
This summary report discusses how Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) can affect the outcome of the 1984 conference on population. The four issues that will appear on the agenda in Mexico City are: (1) fertility and the family; (2) migration and population distribution; (3) population, resources and the environment; and (4) mortality and…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Demography, Economic Development, Family Life
Hore, Terry, Ed.; And Others – 1980
Proceedings are presented of a conference that examined the purposes and setting of tertiary education in Australia in the changing social order of the 1980s, the future roles for tertiary education in Australia, and the pattern and form of accountability appropriate to Australian tertiary education in the late twentieth century. Papers and…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Role, College Students, Economic Factors
Ungerleider, Charles S., Ed. – 1981
This report contains discussion papers presented at a workshop held in 1981 by the Multiculturalism Directorate of the Canadian Department of the Secretary of State to consider the effects of television on public attitudes and to develop approaches for educating viewers to analyze critically what they see. The papers include (1) an overview of the…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Children, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking
Althen, Gary L., Ed. – 1978
Information on the background and viewpoints of Middle Eastern students who are studying in the United States is presented in revised papers from a 1978 seminar, "The Middle East: The Arab World and Iran." In the first section of the report, "General Background," James Cowan reviews social and cultural factors, as well as…
Descriptors: Arabs, College Students, Cultural Background, Cultural Influences
Witty, Elaine P., Ed.; And Others – 1980
The purpose of this conference was to identify and examine factors which are increasingly restraining the education, certification, employment, and retention of black teachers. The two-day conference included the presentation of seven papers on the following topics: (1) changes in the faculty and student body populations in black colleges and the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Black Teachers, Change Strategies
Salley, Charles D., Ed.; And Others – 1979
Proceedings of the 1979 conference of the Southern Association for Institutional Research (SAIR) are presented. The conference theme was the future of institutional research. Contents include reports of preconference workshops, speeches, panel reports, abstracts of papers, and reports pertaining to the affairs of the SAIR. Documents and authors…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Adult Education, Collective Bargaining, College Administration
Israel, William I., Ed. – 1978
Collected in this volume are the papers presented at the 1978 Chief State School Officers Summer Institute. The program was devoted to political issues in education and focused on a number of current educational problems. Political issues were discussed in relation to a number of areas, including federal education priorities, federal-state…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Bilingual Education, Career Education
