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Download full textRegional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2021
In efforts to better understand program availability, quality, and characteristics related to family choice among universal prekindergarten (preK) programs in Vermont, this study examined the characteristics of approved preK programs overall, public school and private programs separately, and programs in local education agencies with different…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Equal Education, Validated Programs, Access to Education
Marshall, Stephen – Journal of Distance Education, 2010
The E-Learning Maturity Model (eMM) is a quality improvement framework designed to help institutional leaders assess their institution's e-learning maturity. This paper reviews the eMM, drawing on examples of assessments conducted in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the USA to show how it helps institutional leaders assess and compare their…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Program Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Schweinhart, Lawrence J. – 2002
This paper presents some ideas to preschool educators and policy makers about how to make validated educational models central in standards for preschool education and care programs that are available to all 3- and 4-year-olds. Defining an educational model as a coherent body of program practices, curriculum content, program and child, and teacher…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Definitions, Educational Practices, Educational Quality
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1980
A survey was conducted of Demonstration Schools in Individualized Instruction (DSII) in Texas with the aim of demonstrating the kinds of inservice education that evolve in support of successful educational innovations. A summary of innovative practices in the surveyed schools, such as program objectives, materials, staffing, organization, and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Quality, Elementary Education, Individualized Programs
Underwood, Susan J.; Underwood, David G. – 1998
This paper focuses on the development of a modified, zero-based curriculum review of programs at a land-grant research university in the southeastern United States which was directed toward demonstrating the viability, and justifying the existence, of current programs. A small group of faculty developed an eight-step process which was used by…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
Thrash, Patricia A. – North Central Association Quarterly, 1979
Monitoring educational change is seen as a critical problem for regional accrediting commissions. The response by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association to the problem is described, and procedures to validate educational quality in off-campus programs and sequential evaluation are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Educational Change, Educational Quality
