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Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA, 2008
To provide some additional guidance for transforming student and learning supports, the Center at UCLA has compiled a new resource aid summarizing a set of frameworks. As with most Center resources, the document is immediately accessible online at no cost and with no restrictions on its use. The document outlines frameworks for reframing…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Resources, Mental Health Programs, Formative Evaluation
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Coburn, Kari C. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2007
This chapter highlights some important themes from the previous chapters in this volume that will assist institutional research professionals and other higher education leaders interested in expanding use of facilities data in planning and decision making: (1) What you don't know can hurt you; (2) Operational systems are not designed to support ad…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Design Requirements, Formative Evaluation, Management Information Systems
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Grosvenor, Ian – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2005
We teach them the craft of word-spinning. The damage is done, we should be teaching them the art of seeing. (Frank Pick) In 1937 the Council for Art and Industry sponsored a national exhibition in London of materials "for use in connection with teaching in elementary schools." Local Education Authorities were encouraged to send…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials, Aesthetic Education
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Clark, Thomas – Business Communication Quarterly, 2005
Designed to guide those who want to replicate a similar program at their institutions, this article examines Xavier University's experience with The Business Profession, a required, noncredit series of career-related events that business majors take over a 4-year period. This program was developed in response to research indicating that early…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Vocational Maturity, Business Communication, Career Education
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Chen, Weiqin; Pedersen, Roger Heggernes; Pettersen, Oystein – Interactive Learning Environments, 2006
This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a distributed collaborative UML modelling environment, CoLeMo. CoLeMo is designed for students studying UML modelling. It can also be used as a platform for collaborative design of software. We conducted formative evaluations and a summative evaluation to improve the environment and…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Program Design
Davies, Gordon K. – National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2006
In March 2003, the Education Commission of the States, the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education established a collaborative project to help states improve higher education performance by assisting with examination of state higher education policies and with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Systems, Program Effectiveness, Educational Policy